Music Education in Fourteen Latin-American Republics

Autor: Vanett Lawler
Rok vydání: 1945
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Zdroj: Music Educators Journal. 31:20-30
ISSN: 1945-0087
0027-4321
DOI: 10.2307/3386758
Popis: A L of the fourteen Republics visited have music teaching programs in their elementary and secondary schools. There was some music activity in each of the 150 schools visited by the writer, with emphasis on choral rather than on instrumental work. Though it would not be within the scope of this report to list all of the public and private schools, the orphanages, schools for delinquents, and other schools visited, mention is made of some in which music education was obviously reaching large numbers of children. In Mexico the writer saw some interesting work in rhythm bands and choral work in the elementary schools, Estado de Michoacdn and Emilio Carranza. Equally interesting were the music program at an elementary school for orphans in Mexico, Fundacion Mier y Pesado, and the marimba bands in the correction school Marcos Carias Reyes, in Honduras. In Nicaragua, considerable attention is given to the organization of drum and bugle corps in many of the schools. In Costa Rica, with its excellent educational system, the Girls' High School of 900 students does praiseworthy work in mass singing and in twoand three-part singing with smaller groups. Likewise the Boys' High School of Costa Rica, with an enrollment of 1,000 students, has a very good music program, which gives special attention to the problem of boys' voices. It was also the privilege of the writer to hear a special concert in the National Theatre in San Jose, in which 700 elementary school children, twenty-five from each of the elementary schools, sang. The Girls' High School, in the Republic of Panama, stresses Panamanian folk music and dances, and groups from the school contribute to community activities. The Girls' Professional School of Panama, with 800 students, also gives special attention to Panamanian folk music. Students and faculty participate in folk music and dances at the Manuel Jose Hurtado School, in Panama, and this school also has a small instrumental group. Another Panamanian school, Artes y Oficios, has an enrollment of over 1,300 boys who participate in a program of music education, with emphasis on their own folk music.
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