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in this audio official essay,
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I will be talking about three standards cabanas by Alejandro Gracia Catahoula
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first let us begin with the composer
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Motorola is a Cuban composer. He was born in Rome media's town in Cuba in 1906.
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In his teenage years he studied both music and law at the same time.
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In the age of 19 he went to Paris to
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continue his music study under the guidance of Nadia Boulanger.
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After his study in France, he went back to his hometown,
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continuing his composition journey and working as a
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lawyer at the same time to raise his family
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In 1927 he composed the threat stances Cabanas.
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In 1929,
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Tristan's Cabanas was premiered in Spain by Mario Mateo.
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In 1932. Coachella founded the
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Italian concert society and actively conducted in the orchestra.
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Patella passed away only at the age of 34.
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He was murdered by a criminal who was about to be sentenced to prison
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introducing Catella.
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It is important to mention about afro Cuban
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is normal which deeply affect his composition.
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Later
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since he was young,
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Coachella participate in different afro Cuban ritual festivals in his hometown.
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He was already very interested in afro Cuban rhythms. Back then
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when he grew up, he became the leader of afro Cuban Izumo.
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It is an artistic and social movement in black themed Cuban culture. In 1920s
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this movement developed a nationality music trend at that time.
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It makes black and white cultural elements
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together with afro Cuban rhythms, songs and dances.
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Coachella composed pieces in different genre including
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piano works or gastro and chamber music
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focal works including opera and aka Bella
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the late and solo works and pieces for a band.
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Now we have a brief understanding of Catarella.
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Let's move on to trees dances, cabanas.
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The restaurant is Cabanas was composed in 1927.
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It means free Cuban dances in English.
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These stances showed diversity in different
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styles and afro Cuban characteristic.
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This piece includes free movements
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including danza de Tambo.
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The dance of the drummer
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motive owes did dancers
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dense motives
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and dasa Luca me, which is a mass stance of an afro Cuban ethnic group
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at that time cuba was politically unstable.
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Motorola joined the group Omen arista, a significant revolution group.
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This group brought together scholars of the
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european have found God and Cuban culture.
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Coachella was deeply influenced by the new musical
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idea and cultivated him as an innovative composer.
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Cotulla also met alejo Carpentier in the revolution group.
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Carpentier was very interested in the study of black african heritage
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as a poet.
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Carpe India brought great musical influence and helped Catahoula in composition.
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Now let's move on to the music analysis of tres dances Cubanos.
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three dances are a tonal.
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However, there are spots of politician al itty in this piece,
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politan maliti means the use of two different keys at the same time
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in dan's Aluko me.
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The strings are an E minor and F sharp minor at the same time
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there are also alternative interpretation for this tonality
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treatment which is an E minor chord tried
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rough tertiary harmony.
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There are also usage of skills in these dances in
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motive owes their dances the foods play the C.
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Major hotel in scale in a different note order.
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In danza del tambo. The horns play the a minor pentatonic scale.
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In the concert pitch,
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the tres danzas cabana is free informed,
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It is attached and oriented by the rhythm.
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Take dancer Luca me as an example,
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it is a short theme and variation which is an elephant guard technique.
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There are also some interesting findings in the harmony.
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This piece contains wide court spacing and dissonant interval structure.
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As shown in the two strings extracts,
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there's also use of quintal and quartile harmony in motive owes.
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Did dance us
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the harmony and strength spewed with perfect augmented and diminished 4th and 5th
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in the same movement. There's also nonfunctional harmony in the strings.
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In the three stances, cabanas,
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it is common to find parallel thief's and parallel chord progression in it.
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I have selected to music excerpts to show the idea
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not only the harmony,
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the rhythm in this music also make a spark.
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Coachella make a wide use of afro Cuban rhythms in this piece for instance,
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he used sing kilo rhythm in the strings, part of motive owes.
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Did dances
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here's the beat of kong kilo rhythm.
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He also used the Habanera rhythm and tangle congo rhythm and dance a tell tambo.
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Here is the habanera rhythm.
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Okay
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and the tango congo rhythm
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in this music, Coachella also include use of single patient and polyrhythms,
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which means simultaneous combination of contrasting rhythms
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for the instrumentation.
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Catella included a wide variety of august real
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instruments he even added to keep our instruments,
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which is the piano and celesta.
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To conclude this essay, three stances coby,
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a nose contains rich variety of afro Cuban
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characteristics and european f en garde techniques.
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These innovative musical ideas have no doubt
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achieved a milestone in the 20th century.
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These are the references used in this essay.
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Thank you for watching.