Beschreibung
The composer writes: "In writing these pieces, there were two objectives: 1) to acquaint the piano sutdent with a small part of the traditional (i.e, 'folk') music of the Americas, and to give this to them in the form that can be used at the same time for piano practice and 2) to present this music in an idom that savours, as much as possible, the contemporary, preferring a bareness rather than a richness of style and accustoming the student's ear to a free use of the intervals of the second, fifth, fourth, and sevenths, so abundantly used in contemporary music." With illustrations by Edith E. Newman.