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"Ars canendi" es una expresión acuñada en el siglo XVII por Giacomo Carissimi que resume todo un mundo de teorías, técnicas y sensaciones. Este libro, que quiere ser ante todo guía, prontuario y compendio de nociones relacionadas con la voz, su producción, técnica y empleo, propone un ameno y completo recorrido por ella como fenómeno físico y fuente de creación de sonidos, atendiendo a los problemas que determina su emisión e higiene, a los aspectos que surgen a su alrededor y a todo lo relativo a su inmediata conexión con el canto y con los diversos estilos que han ido...

"A work ... founded on the system of Zarlino; indeed there is some reason to believe that it is a mere redaction of a work with the same title which Zarlino speaks of as having completed in ms., but which has totally disappeared." -Grove, Dict. of music.

Drawing on the work of leading experts from around the globe, Musicology and Sister Disciplines provides the definitive, authoritative statement on the scope of musicology today and its relationship to other fields of academic endeavour, including philosophy and aesthetics, literary studies, art history, mathematics, computer science, historiography, and sociology. These groundbreaking papers represent the outcome of a major musicological conference in 1997, and include contributions from the philosopher Bernard Williams and world-famous mathematician Roger Penrose.

The “Bolero” has been part of the sentimental education, not only to inhabitants of Cuba (where the music evolved), or Mexicans (where it became a national art form), but to countless persons around the world, in a study that features “Bésame mucho” and hundreds of additional songs.