Pequeña pequeñita CHILDREN SONG CYCLE FOR VOICE AND PIANO: Canciones infantiles de Jaime Leon (005) (Latin American & Spanish Vocal Music Collection) - Softcover

Caicedo, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1733903526 ISBN 13: 9781733903523

Publisher: Mundo Arts, 2019

Synopsis

Pequeña pequeñita is a children song cycle for voice and piano created by Colombian composer Jaime León. Besides providing the sheet music, the book offers an introductory study contextualizing the composer and the poets. The study is in English and in Spanish. The book has poetry translations into English and IPA transcriptions.  

Jaime Leon is one of the most important Latin American composers of the XX century. His Children song cycle is one of the most beautiful written in Latin America as it incorporates Colombian rhythms into a standard art song composition.  This song cycle should be in the repertoire of classical singers interested in including the song in Spanish in their performances. 

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Review

"Academic institutions and performers in many parts of the world have yet to discover the wealth of classical musical resources that exist in Latin America.  The Spanish Americas are replete with outstanding compositions, and every country and region has made its unique contribution.  In terms of chamber music, film music, electronic composition, orchestral scores, sacred repertoire, and in countless other categories, the cultural heritage of this region has much to offer.  The art songs collected here by Jaime León, with their refined late tonal harmonic language and evocative texts, bring to mind similar works by the artist's many counterparts in other countries:  Manuel Ponce, Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes, and Carlos Guastavino, to mention only a few". 

Dr. Robin Moore, Professor of Musicology at University of Texas at Austin.

About the Author

Patricia Caicedo, soprano and musicologist One of the leading interpreters and researches of the Iberian and Latin American Art Song Repertoire, Patricia has performed in the United States, Canada, Denmark, Holland, Germany, Russia, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Latin America to public and critical acclaim. She has recorded nine CDs dedicated to the art song repertoire in Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese. As a musicologist, Caicedo is internationally recognized as a leading expert in the study and performance of the Iberian and Latin American art song visiting universities as a guest artist and teacher. She has written eight books considered a reference in the area. She is the founder and director of the Barcelona Festival of Song®, a 10-day Summer Course and performance series on the history and interpretation of the Latin American and Spanish Vocal repertoire that reaches its 16th edition in 2020. Patricia holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Medical Doctor´s degree from the Escuela Colombiana de Medicina.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mundo Arts
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1733903526
• ISBN 13: 9781733903523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 86