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
- 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
- "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