El libro de las frases musicales

As a professional of music and as a researcher of everything related to music and human kind, for instance as refers to everything related to philosophy and pedagogy, I have always had a great interest in compiling proverbs, sayings, traditional maxims, aphorisms, phrases, thoughts and sentences. The present piece presents a “golden selection” of the aforementioned things. The popular wisdom of any culture throughout history and the contributions of various authors of different disciplines have offered me the possibility to reflect on and go into the human need of music, which brought me to the conclusion that we all are born with a capacity for music (musical intelligence), regardless of whether we study it in an academic way or not. We all are musicians. Music is an epistemological category – a way of knowledge – an effective means that helps us build our own view of the world and of life, which wraps us up in moments of loneliness and sadness and catapults us in moments of joy and party.
Toni Giménez
The book includes a CD with 21 instrumental themes interpreted by the author, which make a trip through folk, finger picking (guitar style), frailing (banjo style), ballad and medieval air styles. A New Age brushstroke provides the entertainment for the whole.

The musical phrases are divided into two large groups: those referring to music (involving our emotions) and those referring to songs (involving emotions, but as well cognition and mind). Within the two groups, phrases are divided into thematic areas.