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A co-founder of the Latin American Art Song Alliance (LAASA), Caicedo founded Mundo Arts, [17] a company that publishes and distributes Latin American art song. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] In 2005, she founded the Barcelona Festival of Song, [ 19 ] [ 18 ] an annual summer program for classical singers and a concert series dedicated to the study of the ...
An art song is a Western vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition. By extension, the term "art song" is used to refer to the collective genre of such songs (e.g., the "art song repertoire"). [ 1 ]
The Cosquín National Folklore Festival is an annual music festival held in Cosquín—a small town in Córdoba, Argentina.The festival first took place between 21 and 29 January 1961, and has grown to include musicians from across Argentina and neighboring countries.
The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and North America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America. The Caribbean has produced many notable composers, who have contributed in a variety of ways to the history of Western classical music. Jan Gerard Palm, Curaçao (1831–1906) Ignacio Cervantes, Cuba (1847–1905)
Peruvian music is an amalgamation of sounds and styles drawing on Peru's Andean, Spanish, and African roots. Andean influences can perhaps be best heard in wind instruments and the shape of the melodies, while the African influences can be heard in the rhythm and percussion instruments, and European influences can be heard in the harmonies and stringed instruments.
4 time, this dance music spread to other countries, leaving behind what Ed Morales has called the "most popular lyric tradition in Latin America." [5] The Cuban bolero tradition originated in Santiago de Cuba in the last quarter of the 19th century; [6] it does not owe its origin to the Spanish music and song of the same name. In the 19th ...
Panama is a Central American country, inhabited mostly by mestizos (persons of mixed African, European and indigenous ancestry).The music of Panama is heavily based on the folk music of Spain, particularly that of Andalusia and was influenced first by the indigenous populations of Kunas, Teribes, Ngobe Bugle and others, and then by the black population who were brought over, first as slaves ...
The Nueva Canción (New Song) is a movement that appeared in the mid 1960s and involved not just Chile but the rest of Latin America and Spain. [36] The movement incorporated strong political and social themes and was used as a tool for expressing political and social conscience.