How Many Latin American Composers Can You Name?
“Exploring Latin American Piano Music: A Cultural Journey with Elementary through Early-Advanced Pieces” is a 15-hour, fully online course featuring over 30 composers from nine Latin American countries and their works. This course is designed for all piano teachers, students, and performers. Each module fosters and appreciation of the various stylistic characteristics, provides pedagogical tools to understand various skill levels presented in these repertoires, and explores the musical culture that embodies Latin American music.
Accessible Learning Formats
“Exploring Latin American Piano Music” prioritizes accessibility, offering both video presentations and specially written articles by our staff experts. The video presentations have everything you’re looking for: musical and technical challenges, pedagogical tips to help teach your students, and artistic performances of each featured piece that all can listen to for inspiration. You’ll learn about composers’ biographies, historical information about each selection, and other fun facts. What’s really great about this course is that it is completely self-guided, meaning you can do it at your own pace!
What’s Included in the Course?
This course features around 50 elementary-through-advanced compositions from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Explore beautiful repertoire selections including Manuel Matarrita’s Escenas de Tiquicia, Luiza Camargo’s Pequena Suite Brasileira, and Felipe Villanueva’s Vals poético.
Music from Western Europe inspired composers from Latin America to create compositions blended with their cultural roots, creating entirely new genres of music. Our teaching and performance literature is constantly evolving, bringing together various cultural roots and styles to expand our understanding of others’ religion, history, and nationalism. Latin American music portrays rich cultures and many composers were highly influenced by them. Learning about Latin American classical music breaks the barrier that classical music only or even primarily derives from Western Europe. Standard repertoire blends Western classical instruments within the music, but with the course, you will learn to hear sounds from instruments of different cultures; including those that you may have never heard before!
Who Would Find This Course Valuable?
This course is highly recommended for teachers who are eager to share Latin American music with their students, expanding their repertoire and understanding of how music influences others around the world. Teachers will gain pedagogical ideas and tools on how to approach Latin American repertoire with their students. Pianists and piano teachers should consider taking this course to expand their repertoire list and historic, cultural knowledge of music. Since music is a diverse field, we can learn a lot about human experiences and different traditions that shaped who we are today.
MORE ON LATIN AMERICAN PIANO MUSIC
- MAGAZINE ARTICLE: The Culturally Responsive Piano Teacher: Building an Inclusive Studio through Cultural Competence by Eden Esters Brown
- DISCOVERY PAGE: Piano Inspires Kids Excerpt: Listening Guide for the 12 American Preludes by Ginastera
- DISCOVERY PAGE: Where can I find more resources about composers from Latin America? by Hyrum Arnesen and Curtis Pavey
- WEBINAR: Music by Latin American Composers with Rosangela Sebba, Oscar Macchioni, and Ricardo Pozenatto, with Luis Sanchez, moderator
- INSPIRING ARTISTRY VIDEO: Ponce: 20 Piezas fáciles sobre temas mexicanos by Desireé González-Miller
- MAGAZINE ARTICLE: Inspiring Young Pianists: The Pedagogical Significance of Lorenzo Fernández’s Piano Compositions by Ísis Cardoso
- COURSE: Exploring Latin American Piano Music: A Cultural Journey with Elementary through Early-Advanced Pieces
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