Alla Va Candela- Familia Valera Miranda, 1997
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- Created on: 10-03-20 12:33
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- Alla Va Candela- Familia Valera Candela- 1997
- Structure
- Begins as Cuban bolero and progresses into a son
- 3 vocal ideas and a vocal refrain
- Tonality
- Diatonic E major thoughout
- No modulations
- Melody
- Triadic shapes with stepwise movement
- Very common to have triadic melodies
- Vivaldi, Concerto in D minor 1711
- Very common to have triadic melodies
- 3 melodic ideas
- 2 bar guaejo uses large intervals and chromatic notes
- Cuatro solo is very flexible with all the notes being chromatic in nature
- Triadic shapes with stepwise movement
- Texture
- Melody-dominated homophony
- Pagodes, Debussy, 1903
- Literally anything Western links
- Call and response between the pregon and the coro
- Solo cuatro line
- Three-part percussion texture
- Melody-dominated homophony
- Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
- Appears as 4/4 but is heard as 2/2 in the bolero
- 2:3 clave rhythm
- Syncopated in the son
- Complex cross-rhythms
- Cuatro line is very complex rhythmically
- Syncopation
- Triplets
- John Cage, Dance No.1 1945
- Hemiolas
- Suite from the Plants, Holst in 1916 used hemiolas
- Rapid quaver figure
- Harmony
- Tonic, dominant alternations in the Son
- Links to the aurally learnt aspect
- E & B7 are varied with the use of a and F#
- Use of chromatic inflections in the cuatro
- Tonic, dominant alternations in the Son
- Sonority
- Lead vocal, chorus vocals, guitar, cuatro, maracas, bongos and claves
- Syllabic word-setting
- improvised bongo section
- Context
- Traditional Cuban music? or is it meant to be a fusion between African and Spanish?
- Learnt aurally
- Foundation of modern day salsa
- Structure
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