The “Aeneid”, Virgil’s major work, commissioned by Emperor Augustus, is the most important and extensive work in the Latin literary world. The “Aeneid” sings the travels of the hero Aeneas on his mission to found Rome. It is divided into twelve parts or books, and contains more than ten thousand verses in dactylic hexameters. The […]
Stories of genuine camaraderie among artists are noteworthy. They are both exemplary and rare in nature. Fortunately, the virtue of generosity has not been strange to some great artists. This is the case of Virgil, the greatest of the Latin Poets, born in 70 B.C. Virgil sought the welfare of a promising poet, five years younger […]
About five centuries ago, with the birth of modern science, the study of music became optional. Paradoxically, today, it is science that suggests the reincorporation of music in a formative context for the human being. It is of great importance that Aristotle, in the eighth book of his Politics, he would dedicate a larger […]
For the Pythagoreans: “the soul is harmony”; for Plato: “the soul has harmony”. Due to its complex and dexterous character, music has been a special subject of study since ancient times. In his Politics, Aristotle speaks of different states of mind provoked by the effect of Greek musical scales, when used during musical practice. […]
For the ancients, music was an integral part of education. Today, neuroscience provides new evidence as to why. It is imperative to go over the ornamental nature of music in current educational programs. Talking about ancient music theory has become an exercise of speculation and figurative language. Trying to approach a sound phenomenon of […]
Today is the 100th anniversary of Astor Piazzola’s birth, father of the “New Tango”. Like Vivaldi, he musically recalled the aromas of each of the seasons of the year. Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzola were born on a Friday in March. One, 243 years before the other. The first, on the fourth day of […]
Find out the Mexican story of one of the world’s greatest violinists, who died on March 3rd, and who left his heart in Mexico, the country that gave him shelter. Within the great diplomatic tradition that Mexico has built for almost a century, thousands of refugees have been received, among them, personalities who have […]
Today we commemorate five years since the departure of one of the greatest educators of professional musicians in the recent history of our country. Mexico, currently one of the countries with the largest number of concert music composers in the world, cannot be explained without its great teachers; characters with a remarkable pedagogical vocation, […]
We commemorate 146 years since the birth of one of the most interesting and controversial Mexican composers in our history, whose ideas had an immediate impact on the way we think about music. On January 28th, 146 years ago today, Julián Carrillo was born in San Luis Potosí, a Mexican composer, conductor, theorist and inventor. He […]
January 5th of 2021 marked the fifth anniversary of the departure of the great Pierre Boulez, that versatile giant who took one of the main places in the history of music of our times. Composer, orchestra conductor and relentless cultural disseminator, he was at the same time one of the characters who had the greatest […]
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