The Traditional Bambuco in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Colombian Composition
Description:
Disputes concerning the origin of the term bambuco persist among scholars in Colombia, as well as controversies regarding the process of notating the traditional bambuco (3/4 or 6/8), when it penetrates the written tradition of popular music. Composers writing popular and salon bambucos increasingly perceived the advantage of notating it in 6/8. This study investigates the traditional bambuco and its assimilation into nineteenth and twentieth-century cultivated tradition, with emphasis on piano…
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Date:
August 1993
Creator:
Martina, Aileen
Partner:
UNT Libraries