El lenguaje de la música aleatoria

Desde la aparición de su primer poemario en 1956, Leonard Cohen se convirtió en uno de los héroes culturales más reverenciados en los círculos literarios de Canadá y Estados Unidos. En los años sesenta, Leonard Cohen cambió la pluma por la guitarra y fue aclamado como "el poeta del rock por excelencia", influyendo en numerosas generaciones de músicos que le han rendido homenaje. Leonard Cohen dejó perpleja a su legión de seguidores cuando se retiró a un monasterio budista durante toda la década de los noventa, para reaparecer en 2008, en una gira triunfal que le llevó a las...

American singer and TV personality Kelly Rowland rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American girl group Destiny's Child. She sold forty million albums and twenty million singles with the group, and more than four million solo albums and eighteen million solo singles. This biography details her childhood strife with an alcoholic – and then absent – father, life on the edge as a teenage R&B star in Destiny’s Child, an ill-fated early solo career and finally finding success on her own, as well as taking centre stage as a judge on X-Factor.Kelly’s rocky childhood growing...

The study of musical composition has, in the main, been informed by anecdotal after-the-event accounts or post hoc analyses of composition. This book presents the first coherent exploration around this unique aspect of human creative activity. The central threads, or key themes - compositional process, creative thinking and problem-solving - are integrated by the combination of theoretical understandings of creativity with innovative empirical work.

There is a woman who appears and disappears in the life of this almost 60-year-old musician, like an angel or demon, and removes everything. So much so that this confessional story begins that has the intensity with which a stranger is spoken to a stranger in a bar. Deeply traversed by music, history covers the character's relationship with alcohol, with women, with children, with the passage of time, but also with his artistic decisions and the role of his generation in culture and society. The songs are entangled in the discourse as in life, that echo in the wood that becomes lyrics and...