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Isabel Villagar has provided us with a book to guide us in teaching children how to sing. Her book is based on scientific principles and focuses on the mental and emotional stages that children and teens go through while learning to sing. She dispels the notions that singing is reserved to those select few that are born with a gift. Isabel invites readers of all ages to uncover their own vocal talent.

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...

La pasión y la erudición se hermanan en esta biografía para recorrer la compleja y a veces dramática vida de Bill Evans, uno de los pianistas más influyentes e innovadores en la historia del jazz y, según muchos entendidos, uno de los grandes músicos del siglo XX. Su peculiar manera de recrear la tradición, sus armonías impresionistas, sus líneas melódicas sincopadas y polirítmicas continúan sonando como un eco indeleble en los pianos de nuestro tiempo. Pero a los estilos jazzísticos dominantes en su época (bebop, cool, improvisación modal), Evans aportó sobre todo un intenso ...

Propuesta en la que, de forma ágil y amena, se abordan aspectos relacionados con la práctica musical, tomando como eje los elementos básicos de la música. El libro se acompaña de un disco compacto con 57 ejemplos musicales.