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Las celebraciones durante estos últimos años en torno al cuarto centenario no solo de la Primera y Segunda Parte del Quijote, sino también del resto de sus obras, y la conmemoración en el año 2016 de su transito hacia la inmortalidad, han hecho que el nombre de Cervantes ilumine de nuevo no solo el ambito de las letras, sino que extienda sus armas hacia el resto de las artes, cuyos campos en barbecho han producido extraordinarias composiciones a la que su escritura ofrecio tierra, labranza, abono y lluvia. Cine, teatro, pintura, escultura y, muy especialmente, la musica, han transformado el legado cervantino en nuevas creaciones que reinterpretan y continuan el imaginario excepcional de un escritor que hizo de la lengua española un bisturi sin igual en la lectura mas dificil: aquella que disecciona la vida y sus distintas realidades.Con este libro el Centro de Investigacion y Documentacion Musical (CIDoM, Unidad Asociada al CSIC) de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha rinde homenaje a una figura sin igual a traves de dos lineas fundamentales que vertebran, entre otras, el conjunto de sus investigaciones: por un lado, el estudio del hecho musical en la obra cervantina, sus vivencias, hibridaciones y citas colmadas todas ellas de un valor intencional deliberado; por otro, el analisis de su influencia en el patri...

Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) fue conocido por su faceta de compositor y maestro de capilla. Fue el polifonista más importante del Renacimiento español. En esta obra el autor recoge su biografía, la bibliografia y el significado estetico de todas sus obras de arte polifonico religioso. La obra ya fue publicada dentro del Tomus VIII de las obras completas del insigne medico.Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) fue conocido por su faceta de compositor y maestro de capilla. Fue el polifonista más importante del Renacimiento español. En esta obra el autor recoge su biografía, la bibliografia y el significado estetico de todas sus obras de arte polifonico religioso. La obra ya fue publicada dentro del Tomus VIII de las obras completas del insigne medico.

¿Qué es una ópera? ¿Y quién era Claude Debussy? De forma clara y entretenida, brillante y breve, esta enciclopedia reúne a los grandes compositores de la música clásica. Quién enseñó a Mozart a tocar

Si la música amansa a las fieras, la sabihondez musical ablanda los corazones más refractarios a las delicias del amor. Ésa es la tesis de este libro, una obra sin igual en la historia de la autoayuda inconfesable. Maximo Pradera, vihuelista en excedencia y seductor contumaz, nos revela aqui los secretos del metodo que tantos exitos le ha dado en la palestra del comercio carnal.El señor Pradera es bien conocido por su ingenio, su humor incombustible y su impertinencia, virtudes justamente recompensadas con un regimiento de admiradores y una legion de enemigos acorazados, pero no todo el mundo sabe que tambien es un experto en seriedades filarmonicas. Aqui, por ejemplo, ilumina el complejo mundo de la musica clasica con una excusa pintoresca: suministrar la informacion necesaria para deslumbrar al objeto de nuestros deseos desplegando una asombrosa montaña de saberes.Este insolito catecismo del postureo musical va mas alla de lo estrictamente amatorio: aunque los impostores sacaran provechosas ideas de sus paginas (de eso no cabe duda), sera aun mas util para quienes aspiran a ampliar sus horizontes sonoros o, simplemente, a disfrutar con unas horas de amena lectura. Sus enseñanzas garantizan al lector una mejora sustancial de sus (malas) artes seductivas, un valioso incremento de sus erudiciones, muchas sorpresas y unas cuantas risas. He aqui, pues, un recorrido burlon por los misterios mas insondables y las anecdotas mas divertidas de la musica clasica, una utilisima guia disfrazada de manual para exhibicionistas desaprensivos.

From the oyster huts of Whitstable to the music halls of Victorian London, Tipping the Velvet is the glorious first novel from this much-loved author'Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.'A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King - oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End 'tom'.'Erotic and absorbing... Written with startling power' New York Times Book Review'An unstoppable read, a sexy and picaresque romp through the lesbian and queer demi-monde of the roaries Nineties' Independent on Sunday'Waters is an extremely confident writer, combining precise, sensuous descriptions with irony and wit' Observer

The fourth volume of Michael Palin's widely acclaimed diaries finds him embracing the first decade of a new century. In Travelling to Work, the third volume covering the years 1988-1998, Michael's career took an unexpected direction into travel after a decade of filming, writing and acting, and it is travel that would shape his working life for the next 25 years, with eight very successful television series including Around the World in 80 Days and Pole to Pole.The early years of the 21st century see Michael trekking around (around through) the world's largest desert in Sahara (2002) and travelling around some of the highest mountains in the world in Himalaya (2004), and for a complete change of scenery there was New Europe (2007), in which Michael travelled in the nations of Eastern Europe. In each case he wrote a book about his travels. These travel programmes were responsible for a phenomenon termed the 'Palin effect': areas of the world that Michael has visited suddenly becoming popular tourist attractions. Michael also wrote and presented documentary programmes on artists that interested him - the Scottish colonists in The Bright Side of Life; The Ladies Who Loved Matisse; and The Mystery of Hammershi on the Danish artist. As a model railway enthusiast, he also had two trains named after him. He won a BAFTA Special Award in 2005 and another as part of the Monty Python team in 2009. Finally, in 2009 Michael was elected for a three-year term as President of the Royal Geographical Society.These latest Diaries show a man grasping every opportunity in a phenomenally varied life, and they deal candidly with the doubts and setbacks that accompany this prodigious work-rate. As ever, his family life is there to anchor him.

This is a fine and valuable book, encyclopaedic in its coverage of the subject, and the only treatment (in any language) of the entire field. It is an extraordinary achievement. MUSIC & LETTERS Lucidly and engagingly written...this book is an outstanding contribution to scholarship and a definitive work, indispensable for the historical study of fugue. THE AMERICAN ORGANIST Few bodies of Western music are as widely respected, studied, and emulated as the fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach. Despite the esteem which Bach''s contributions brought to the genre, however, the origin and early history of the fugue remain poorly understood. Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach addresses both the history and methodology of the pre-Bach fugue (from roughly 1500 to 1700), and, of greatest significance to the literature, it seeks to present a way out of the methodological dilemma of uncertainty which has plagued previous scholarly attempts by considering what musicians of the time had to say about the fugue: what it was, what it was not, how important it was, and where and how a composer should (or shouldn''t) use it. Eastman Studies in Music, Volume 13. PAUL MARK WALKER is director of the Early Music Ensemble at the University of Virginia and an expert on the history of the fugue.

This Workbook was designed as a classroom accompaniment to the second edition of The Study Of Orchestration. It is meant to serve three fundamental purposes: the review and testing of the material found in the various chapters; the practical application of he techniques discussed in the text; the acquisition of a sensitive ear for instrumental sound.

Spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant to works by contemporary composers such as Judith Weir and Wolfgang Rihm, The Rough Guide to Classical Music forms an indispensable guide to composers and key-recordings. The book combines informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, with incisive reviews of hundreds of CDs, selecting the best of the latest recordings and the pick of the re-issues. Lively articles on such topics as sonata form, the concerto, atonality, and film music are also included.

This new, completely revised edition of The Penguin Guide surveys the key classical recordings issued and reissued on CD over the past two decades, many of which have dominated the catalogue because of their sheer excellence, irrespective of their recording dates. Now DVDs have also been added, with their extra video dimension, as well as the sound-enhanced SACDs. If you want to be sure of acquiring the finest available version of any major classical work (including DVDs of opera and ballet) you will find it listed and assessed in these pages often with alternatives of comparable excellence and price. For those just embarking on a classical CD collection, there is invaluable advice on which works to sample.

The new, completely revised edition of The Penguin Guide surveys the key classical recordings issued and reissued on CD over the past two decades, many of which have dominated the catalogue because of their sheer excellence, irrespective of their recording dates. Now DVDs have also been added, with their extra video dimension, as well as the sound enhanced SACDs. If you want to be sure of acquiring the finest available version of any major classical work (including DVDs of opera and ballet) you will find it listed and assessed in these pages - often with alternatives of comparable excellence in different price ranges. This latest edition contains more entries than ever before. Ranging from long-established recordings to the latest releases, it represents the cream of the international repertoire and has all the information you will need to select the finest classical music available.