The First Book of Tenor Solos

"This is among the most widely used teaching repertoire for singers in the U.S. Over 30 songs in each book, including American and British art songs, folk song arrangements, sacred songs and a sampling of beginning songs in German, Italian, Spanish and French. There is a completely different song selection for each voice type."--Amazon.com.

How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body? Or, What does flamenco dance tell us about the construction of race in the Atlantic world? Sonidos Negros traces how, in the span between 1492 - the year in which Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula coincided with Christopher Columbus's landing on Hispaniola - and 1933 - when Andalusian poet Federico García Lorca published his "Theory and Play of the Duende" - the Moor became Black, and how the imagined Gitano ("Gypsy," or Roma) embodies the warring images and sounds of this process. By the nineteenth-century...

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.

Éxito de ventas cuando se publicó en 2005 como parte de la colección de Publicaciones del Bicentenario de Chile, y agotado por años, llega esta edición actualizada de un libro fundamental que a través de la crónica de José Miguel Varas y de la antología de prensa seleccionada por Juan Pablo González, recorre 100 años de la música nacional, acercándola a los auditores y facilitando su comprensión. Según la crítica: «Nadie mejor calificado que José Miguel Varas para sumergirse en los meandros de la música chilena y encontrar algunos derroteros definitorios para comprenderla...

Un apretado análisis de la temprana Europa medieval en los años 300 al 1.000, entre los años últimos del imperio romano y el asentamiento del imperio islamista.