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La música cameral cubana a inicios del siglo XXI: Yalil Guerra y Old Habana

Translated title of the contribution: Cuban chamber music at the beginning of the 21.st century: Yalil Guerra and Old Habana

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Abstract

Introduction: By studying the musical framework of Cuban composers who are located in a foreign environment, we approach a process of connections that includes different points of view and that, in turn, are discursively intertwined in a scenario that builds cultural codes that reinforce the identity. Within this framework, the work provides special analytical attention to the production of Chamber music by Yalil Guerra Soto (1973). Methods: In this research, the analysis proposal based on the enactive criterion is developed, that is, multivalent and interacting relationships that are unleashed in recipient-creator individuality from specific topics evoked, considering that every analyst is in turn a perceiving subject.-Creative of the work he faces. For traditional historiography, Chamber music is linked to a number of members of an instrumental/vocal format of genres established at the time of classicism, which are performed in a relatively small and intimate space. Results: We focus on an analytical approach to his musical proposal Old Havana by the composer and guitarist Yalil Guerra for its interconnections between academic and popular music. The sound context exposes a traditional string quartet. The timbre image is conventional, but in turn contains a range of profiles that support the discourse and combine effects of semantic interconnection, giving it a unique aesthetic vision. The alternation of compass according to the discursive requirement is notable, acquiring diversity in the development sections. Conclusions: the cameral concept extends its scope to the genres considered folkloric or popular, interweaving a unifying thought that describes music as a whole. We analyse and corroborate in the work of Yalil Guerra, the resignification, of the sound world of traditional Cuban popular music in an academic context.

Translated title of the contributionCuban chamber music at the beginning of the 21.st century: Yalil Guerra and Old Habana
Original languageSpanish
Pages (from-to)60-80
Number of pages21
JournalIslas
Volume64
Issue number202
StatePublished - 31 May 2022

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