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Una emocionante recopilación de la correspondencia más íntima de los grandes compositores de la historiaDesde Mozart, a mediados del siglo xviii, hasta Alban Berg ya bien entrado el siglo xx, veintidos compositores desnudan su alma en estas cartas, que hablan de amor, pero tambien de la vida cotidiana, las ideas, los sueños y los sentimientos personales.Su autor, que dedico su vida al estudio de los protagonistas, plantea:Alguno de ellos tal vez se desvele ante el lector de un modo del todo inesperado: su musica o su retrato presagiaban una persona completamente distinta. ¿Es entonces la carta de amor la autentica via de acceso a un alma siempre oculta?."[En "Cartas de amor"] aparecen maestros que vivieron en la misma epoca, pero cuya forma de pensar y sentir muestra a menudo los mayores contrastes. Alguno de ellos tal vez se desvele ante el lector de un modo del todo inesperado: su musica o su retrato presagiaban una persona completamente distinta. ¿Es entonces la carta de amor la autentica via de acceso a un alma siempre oculta? ¿Es menos espontanea que la obra musical, o es mas inmediata, dado que la mayor parte de las ocasiones esta menos pensada que aquella?". (De la "Introduccion").

Beneïda amb una veu extraordinària temperada pel seu activisme insubornable, Sinéad O’Connor va irrompre, molt a desgrat seu, en la constel·lació de les grans rockeres a finals dels vuitanta, amb una

Bendecida con una voz extraordinaria templada al calor de su insobornable activismo, Sinéad O’Connor irrumpió, muy a su pesar, en la constelación de las grandes roqueras a finales de los ochenta, con

Written with a searing honesty and published for the tenth anniversary of Amy Winehouses death, My Amy is an evocative portrait of unbreakable lifelong friendship and a devastating study into fame, addiction and self-sabotage.Only one person knows what really happened to Amy, other than Amy herself. He is Tyler James, Amys best friend from the age of thirteen. They met at stage school as two insecure outsiders, formed an instant connection and lived together from their late teenage years right up until the day she died, aged just twenty-seven.Tyler was there by her side through it all.From their carefree early years touring together to the creation of the multiple Grammy-winning Back To Black, which she wrote on their kitchen floor. From her volatile marriage to Blake Fielder-Civil through her escalating addictions, self-harm and eating disorders as the toxic nature of fame warped Amys reality. For the last three years of her life, Tyler was with her every day when shed beaten drugs and was close to beating alcoholism too.He also knew better than anyone the real Amy Winehouse who the tabloid-reading public rarely saw the hilarious, uncompromising force-of-nature busy taking care of everyone else.We all think we know what happened to Amy Winehouse, but we dont. This definitive insiders story tells us all, finally, the truth.

«Los compositores somos proyectores del infinito en lo finito.»¿Qué inspira la creatividad?Entre los años 1890 y 1917, Arthur M. Abell entabló conversaciones largas y sinceras con los mejores composi

Revista trimestral dedicada a la historia y cultura musical.Con una portada dedicada al inolvidable Leonard Cohen, acompañada de un extenso artículo en el que se reconstruye y analiza su obra como es

Paseo por la vida de Alberto Soriano Thebas (1915-1981), que revela aspectos desconocidos de este compositor, musicólogo y poeta, muy vinculado a la cultura más honda de Latinoamérica. Su destino de constante viajero, la relativa soledad de su creacion, a

Mi última canción es la biografía de un artista, Camilo Sesto, y una época musical imborrable, la de los años 70 en España, que vio ascender hasta la cima a uno de los mitos musicales más grandes de todos los tiempos.Cantante, compositor, idolo de masas y hasta productor del primer musical de este pais, Mi ultima cancion se presenta como el testimonio de un artista con mas de 180 millones de discos vendidos y el unanime reconocimiento internacional a una trayectoria musical inigualable. Uno de esas voces imperecederas que se cruzan en nuestras vidas y nos marcan para siempre con sus letras y sus canciones.

Dos decenios hubo que aguardar para deleitarnos con la épicay monumental —de necesidad— autobiografía de Quincy Jones:Q, el proteico y excesivo portento que diera forma y sustancia ala música estadou

Un portait de Beethoven et de sa passion pour la fraternité, malgré les difficultés qu'il subit, de sa famille à sa santé, en passant par ses amours et ses finances. Pour répondre à cette malchance,

Color Karma es un libro de libros. Una década de profecías musicales auto-cumplidas de una de las artistas y productoras más controvertidas del panorama musical español. Un relato auto-biográfico de entendimiento personal, generacional y social a traves del arte, las heridas y los procesos creativos. El retrato de una epoca convulsa de esplendor digital y decadencia. De usos y abusos en la Industria Musical.Una historia escandalosa y sorprendente en si misma.El libro que ningun artista se atreveria a escribir...

A self-portrait in 154 songs, by our greatest living songwriter''''More often than I can count, I''''ve been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I''''ve always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. I know that some people, when they get to a certain age, like to go to a diary to recall day-to-day events from the past, but I have no such notebooks. What I do have are my songs, hundreds of them, which I''''ve learned serve much the same purpose. And these songs span my entire life.''''In this extraordinary book, with unparalleled candour, Paul McCartney recounts his life and art through the prism of 154 songs from all stages of his career - from his earliest boyhood compositions through the legendary decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his solo albums to the present. Arranged alphabetically to provide a kaleidoscopic rather than chronological account, it establishes definitive texts of the songs'''' lyrics for the first time and describes the circumstances in which they were written, the people and places that inspired them, and what he thinks of them now. Presented with this is a treasure trove of material from McCartney''''s personal archive - drafts, letters, photographs - never seen before, which make this also a unique visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.We learn intimately about the man, the creative process, the working out of melodies, the moments of inspiration. The voice and personality of Paul McCartney sings off every page. There has never been a book about a great musician like it.

2 octobre 1925, sur la scène du théâtre des Champs-Élysées, le public, venu en nombre, découvre Joséphine Baker dans La Revue nègre. Elle a 19 ans, c’est un triomphe. Elle danse le charleston, vêtue

Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete.His talent was unbounded a raw force that commanded attention and respect.His death was tragica violent homage to the power of his voice.His legacy is indomitableas vibrant and alive today as it has ever been.This collection of deeply personal poetry is a mirror into the legendary artist's enigmatic world and its many contradictions.Written in his own hand from the time he was nineteen, these seventy-two poems embrace his spirit, his energyand his ultimate message of hope.

Atesorado –y fuertemente custodiado– por fans y coleccionistas, I Me Mine es lo más cercano que tenemos a unas memorias de George Harrison (y, por extensión, de un Beatle). Pese a contar con varias e

Pau Casals (1876-1973) es uno de los pocos interpretes que brilla con luz propia en la historia de la música. El maestro catalán no solo abrió nuevos caminos para el violonchelo, sino que tambien impulso una nueva concepcion de la interpretacion musical que romperia con los canones esteticos establecidos por la tradicion romantica. Trabajador obstinado y observador incansable, desarrollo su tecnica instrumental para servir a los mas altos ideales artisticos, alcanzando un estilo de una sensibilidad emotiva incomparable. Desde el rigor historico, este ensayo intenta revelar como se gestaron sus ideas sobre la interpretacion musical y la tecnica del violonchelo. Aunque son muchos los autores que han definido los principios fundamentales que Casals promulgo a lo largo de su vida, el origen de estos principios continua siendo controvertido. Cuando se conmemoran los cincuenta años de su muerte, este trabajo pretende descubrir los secretos que hicieron de Casals un musico revolucionario.

A long-awaited facsimile of Michael Snows legendary artist's book, a classic of conceptualism For years an out-of-print rarity, Canadian artist, filmmaker and musician Michael Snow's (born 1928) classic 1975 artist's book Cover to Cover is available once again, in this facsimile edition. Unconstrained by discipline, Snow famously remarked that his sculptures were made by a musician, his films by a painter. Flipping through Cover to Cover, which is composed entirely of photographs in narrative sequence, one might describe it as a book made by a filmmaker. Each individual page features a distinct moment, seen from one perspective on the front, and from a diametrically opposed angle on the back, occasionally pivoting between interior and exterior spaces. Midway through the book, the images are inverted such that the volume must be turned upside-down to be looked at right-side up. The result is an elegant, disorienting study in simultaneity. With this work, wrote Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Michael Snow has challenged the reader's/viewer's notion of a book, indeed one's very notion of perception.

At 7 years old Min Kym was a prodigy, the youngest ever pupil at the Purcell School of Music. At 11 she won her first international prize. She worked with many violins, waiting for the day she would play 'the one'. At 21 she found it: a rare 1696 Stradivarius, perfectly suited to her build and temperament. Her career soared. She recorded the Brahms concerto and a world tour was planned.Then, in a train station cafe, her violin was stolen. In an instant her world collapsed. She descended into a terrifying limbo land, unable to play another note.This is Min's extraordinary story - of a young woman staring into the void, wondering who she was, who she had been. It is a story of isolation and dependence, of love, loss and betrayal, and the intense, almost human bond that a musician has with their instrument. Above all it's a story of hope through a journey back to music.