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Academic Music in Argentina

  • Albert Ginastera (1916-1983)
  • Catalan and Italian heritage
  • Studied with Aaron Copland
  • 4 different periods of composition
  • Objective Nationalism
  • Subjective Nationalism
  • Neo-Expressionism
  • Final Synthesis

Nuevo Tango

  • Piazolla's "Adios, Nonino"
  • studied with Natalie Boulanger
  • New identity
  • No dancing, just music
  • newer, more virtuosic
  • through composed
  • different instrumentation

Tango: Guardia Nueva

  • New Guard began in 1920
  • "La Cumparsita"
  • more commercialized, middle class approved
  • less sexualized
  • bandaneon, strings, guitar,
  • Carlos Gardel is famous singer

Tango: Guardia Vieja

  • "Old Guard"
  • El "Choclo"
  • began in bars and brothels, gauchos moving to urban areas
  • slow, stately dance
  • 2/4,
  • no middle class

Music in Argentina

Traditional Music Genres: Malambo

Bibliography

  • Solo dance for males
  • 6/8 sesquialtera
  • machisimo, bravado

Gaucho

  • Cattle, form
  • Clothing: Turkish trousers; Belt, hat, facón (knife), horse whip, boltas de potro ("colt boots")
  • Boleadora- three stones in sling deadly, learned from natives
  • Pazada- gaucho improvised singing duel, 2/2, 3 chords
  • Mark Brill, Music of Latin America and the Caribbean, Boston: Prentice Hall.
  • Alfredo Colman, MUS 4364 class notes
  • http://simbatango.com/2009/12/19/what-to-listen-for-in-tango/
  • http://samibarrera.blogspot.com/

Traditional Music Genres: Milonga

Traditional Music Genres: Zamba

  • Peruvian origins
  • Song & scarf dance w/ symbolism
  • 6/8, sesquialtera
  • Slow, reflective, repetition
  • nostalgia and deep emotions
  • violin, guitar, and bombo
  • Guitar and voice (rural)
  • Also more orchestrated urban form
  • 2/4, habanera-like pattern
  • Slow, melancholy, highly sentimental
  • Performed in social gatherings or brothels

Tri-Ethnic Heritage

  • Iberian, Indigenous, and African Descent
  • In more recent history, immigrants from Europe such as Italy, France, and Germany

Traditional Music Genres: Chacarera

  • Song & dance
  • 6/8, sesquialtera rhythm present
  • sequialtera - 2/4 and 3/4 hemiola
  • fast, lively
  • couples line dance, foot tapping
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