Freestyle Revolution

The year was 1966. While the young people lived during the most epic time in London, a group caused a sensation: Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Rick Wright and Nick Mason played blues rock like nobody else. After a few months they recorded their first singles: "Arnold Layne" / "Candy And A Currant Bun" and "See Emily Play" / "Scarecrow" and then, their first album: The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. The prodigious career of Pink Floyd had begun.

***En la lista de los Mejores Libros del Año 2019 según NPR*** Cuando Liz Phair irrumpió en la escena musical independiente a principios de los noventa con su controvertido doble álbum "Exile in Guyville" —su particular respuesta, tema a tema, al célebre "Exile on Main St." de los Rolling Stones—, su sinceridad descarnada, sexualidad sin tapujos y talento como escritora de canciones lo convirtieron en un disco fundamental del rock alternativo y en manifiesto generacional. Siguiendo la estela de otros iconos del rock como Patti Smith o Kim Gordon, Phair compone una original...

Choral Scores is an anthology of music exemplifying distinctive choral repertoire by the most noteworthy composers throughout the history of Western music. A companion volume to Denis Shrock's Choral Repertoire (Oxford 2009), it presents works of salient importance to the development of choral music in Western culture, representing the music of the composers, eras, and movements discussed most prominently in that volume. Including 132 compositions by 124 different composers, each presented unabridged and in full score, and spanning the entirety of Western music history, from the medieval era...

Este libro, y el disco que lo acompaña, descubren, región por región, el magnífico repertorio de baladas y canciones que han marcado los aires de ópera de Bellini y de Verdi, los cantos de la Semana Santa de Sicilia o Cerdeña, el famoso trallallero de los estibadores genoveses o las experiencias renovadoras de los últimos tiempos.