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Review: Anthology Of Eighteenth-Century Spanish Keyboard Music, Edited By Susanne Skyrm, With Calvert Johnson And John Koster, Oscar E. Macchioni
Review: Anthology Of Eighteenth-Century Spanish Keyboard Music, Edited By Susanne Skyrm, With Calvert Johnson And John Koster, Oscar E. Macchioni
Oscar Macchioni
Ernst Widmer’S Kosmos Latinoamericano: A Progressive Piano Method, Oscar E. Macchioni
Ernst Widmer’S Kosmos Latinoamericano: A Progressive Piano Method, Oscar E. Macchioni
Oscar Macchioni
Article. Published February/March Issue, 2011.
Latin American piano repertoire for the elementary to intermediate level is not an easy subject since most of the available scores of famous Latin American composers are for the late intermediate or advanced level. Ernst Widmer (1927-1990), a Swiss composer who moved to Bahia, Brazil in 1956, composed Kosmos Latinoamericano between 1978 and 1982. It is an eclectic collection of 146 pieces organized in four volumes ranging from the beginner to the intermediate/advance levels. It includes an array of musical elements such as: original compositions and improvisations; readings and exercises; popular melodies and rhythms from …