User:O. Ian Ávalos/Institute for Mexican Art Music

The Institute for Mexican Art Music, (I.M.A.M., or Instituto para la Música de Arte Mexicana in Spanish) is an organization founded by composer & musicologist Omar Ian Ávalos. The institute aims to create and diffuse knowledge of Mexican art music through various means including performance and education. The institute institute encourages the study and practice of historical and contemporary musical works, and the creation of new works.

This is a newly founded institute currently in organization headed by Omar Ian Ávalos (ASCAP), an associate music instructor at Santa Ana College and a principal musician at the University of California at Irvine.

The Avaliana Collection
The Avaliana Collection or Colección Avaliana consists of audio recordings of Mexican and Latin American art music and musical scores.

About the Founder
Omar Ian Ávalos studied musicology at Cal State Fullerton with musicologist John Koegel.

Articles
The State of Research on the Mexican Musical Baroque Period (2008, unpublished)

Musical Romanticism in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (2008, unpublished)

Expanding the Definition of Baroque Music Through the Example of Latin American Baroque Hybridity (2009, unpublished)

Form and Content in the Incantation of Ecuatorial by Edgard Varèse, with New Proposals for Future Performance (2009, unpublished)

Monographs
Mexican Art Music: A Wikipedia Companion

Mexican Art Music: A Historical Survey (In progress)

Flamencology
Flamencali: Revista del flamenco angelino