Contempus
Pedagogical Guide for teaching contemporary piano music
The objective of CONTEMPUS is the development of an innovative pedagogical guide for teaching contemporary piano music. It addresses piano educators at all levels of music education including Music Schools, Conservatories, and Universities.Contemporary music is the continuation and evolution of classical Western music tradition, the only genre of music that is taught in most educational Music institutions worldwide. However, the evolution of classical music into contemporary 'classical' music has not yet been reflected in the music education. The most important reason for this addition is that the study of contemporary repertoire expands and enhances the students’ overall musicianship as it encourages them to approach classical repertoire from different perspectives and retool the concepts and values of performance.
CONTEMPUS aims to bridge the gap between contemporary music and music education by providing a complete teaching guide, consisting of didactic tools, repertoire and recordings, for the introduction of contemporary piano repertoire into the formal curriculum of piano instruction.
CONTEMPUS will consist of Basic Tools for understanding and teaching contemporary music which includes the identification and categorization of the prevailing compositional processes of contemporary piano works, coupled with innovative creative exercises and a representative list of teaching material. Pedagogical piano works and commissions written by established composers of Greece and abroad, coupled with a teachers’ guide, will constitute the second part of CONTEMPUS. The recordings that will be realized, will act as ‘aural models’, demonstrating the suggested interpretational approach. At the end of CONTEMPUS, the cooperating institutions will host the pilot programs for testing and evaluating the proposed research’s results. The final outcome will be presented through a digital interactive platform making it immediately accessible to piano teachers and performers.
Project Leader: Lenio Liatsou, Research Team: Christos Chalnaridis, Marina Vlachaki.
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https://www.elidek.gr/en/post-doctorate-research-projects/2nd-postdoc/sa7/
The research project is supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I) under the “2nd Call for H.F.R.I Research Projects to support Post-Doctoral Researchers” (Project Number: 736).