Integrating Contemporary World Music Into Our Teaching - The Pedagogical Value And Performance Practice Of Seven Commissioned Pieces By Four Colombian Composers

This book is a compilation of seven piano pieces that the author commissioned from four different Colombian composers. It discusses the process of commissioning the pieces, a brief history of Colombian music and the value of including contemporary and world music into music teaching. The discussion of each piece includes a detailed structural and musical analysis and a description of the influences of folk and contemporary languages they demonstrate. It also discusses ideas for performance practice and assigns a suggested level of difficulty for each piece, presents a conversation on their technical challenges, and gives pedagogical advise for overcoming them.

About the author

Dr. Ana María Orduz is a professor and head of the Piano Department at the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia. She is also an active adjudicator, presenter, performer and Founding Director of the Pianissimo Foundation. She holds an MM and a DMA from the University of Iowa and a Bachelors Summa Cum Laude from the University of Memphis.

Product details

• Authors: Ana Maria Orduz
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783659631351
• ISBN: 978-3-659-63135-1
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 220 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 213 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory