Música para la mano izquierda: un camino hacia la documentación de su repertorio pianístico en Latinoamérica

Leonardo Gell Fernández-Cueto

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Music for the left hand: a path towards the documentation of its piano repertoire in Latin America

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Leonardo Gell Fernández-Cueto Universidad de Costa Rica https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6572-112X

Vol. 74 No. 234 (2020): Julio - Diciembre

Abstract

Documenting and spreading Latin American music continues to be a challenge that we still face as a region today. Although there are important efforts in several countries, where studies, publications and recordings of this repertoire continue to grow, we can consider that it is still at an initial stage. Given this fact, this article aims to register, for the first time, music conceived for piano with the left hand only, based on the interest shown by Latin American composers for this kind of work. The tables elaborated include the recording of original works and the transcriptions of works by other authors, written between 1859 and 2019. It also validates the hypothesis that Costa Rica is the Latin American country with the highest number of works written for the left hand. Based on existing sources, it shows the characteristics of the execution for this piano literature that emerged in Europe at the end of the 18th century and reviews the development it has had over two centuries.

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Latin American music, piano, left hand, musical pedagogy, instrumental teaching

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Gell Fernández-Cueto, L. (2020). Music for the left hand: a path towards the documentation of its piano repertoire in Latin America. Revista Musical Chilena, 74(234), pp. 131–174. Retrieved from https://revistamusicalchilena.uchile.cl/index.php/RMCH/article/view/53712