Alla Va Candela- Familia Valera Miranda, 1997

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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
      • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

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