Historical panorama of music education in Latin America: music training institutions

This article reports on ongoing research project concerned with the history of music education, both institutionalised and non-institutionalised, in Latin America. It describes the application of a data collecting framework for the analysis of printed sources as a means of obtaining information on the aims, methods, outcomes and personnel of a range of music teaching and learning situations. A general panorama on music teaching institutions in Latin America from the sixteenth up to the twentieth century is presented.