Bendita Locura

Contains 142 pieces by the masters of piano literature, from the second half of the 17th century to the present day. For easy-to-intermediate players.

Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group that sparked the emergence of the culture called punk.

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.

El cimiento del tango es la vida política argentina. De todo el tango, no de una parte o de algunas composiciones. Por eso, no es uno sino muchos, discontinuos, de tramos diferentes. Nace con cinturas apretadas y lascivas en la década de 1880, con el Estado argentino moderno; se vuelve canción en 1916: sentencia moral, madre y esquina, con Yrigoyen y el pueblo en el Poder; hasta 1955 cuando Perón es derrocado, el peronismo sufre un exilio interior y Piazzolla inventa otro tango, más complejo, más abstracto. ¿Cómo no ver en el tango la historia argentina? Anverso y reverso de lo mismo, ...