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Recognized as the most significant composer from New Spain in the early eighteenth century, Manuel de Sumaya (ca. 1678–1755) oversaw musical activity at Mexico City Cathedral during a time of stylistic change. Sumaya, who was locally born and ordained as a priest, wrote music that mixes the counterpoint and rhythmic vigor of seventeenth-century Hispanic music with more modern Italianate gestures prescient of international taste in the eighteenth century. This edition of all thirty-four villancicos with music by Sumaya conserved in the Estrada Collection at Mexico City Cathedral reveals the...

Transcripción completa de la documentación manuscrita del legado de Francisco Asenjo Barbieri sobre el Teatro de los Caños del Peral.

Although influenced by the impressionism of Debussy, Dukas, and Ravel, Manuel de Falla (1876–1946) remained distinctively Spanish, with roots that drew upon both Andalusian folk music and his country's classical traditions. With these two popular ballets, El Amor Brujo (Love, the Magician) and El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-Cornered Hat), he brought the world's attention to the music of Spain. In El Amor Brujo, a gypsy lass is haunted by the ghost of a former swain until her new lover devises a plan to entice the spirit away. Each of the ballet's scenes evokes a different mood that is ...

Maurice Ravel representa cabalmente una epoca que trataba de acercar el arte y la vida cotidiana: la ironia, el enmascaramiento de los sentimientos, la rigurosa economia de recursos musicales son rasgos que caracterizan una obra que busca introducir una cierta dosis de magia en el mundo y despojar a la musica del patetismo imperante en buena parte del siglo XIX. Junto a los capitulos mas biograficos, Theo Hirsbrunner analiza el estilo de Ravel vinculandolo a su compleja personalidad y a su ambiente intelectual y artistico.