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9855_49 | Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Commonwealth Games |
9855_50 | World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain
World Athletics Championships medalists |
9855_51 | Athletes from Yorkshire
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics |
9855_52 | Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field) |
9856_0 | Throughout the years, the Cuban nation has developed a wealth of musicological material created by |
9856_1 | numerous investigators and experts on this subject. |
9856_2 | Early 20th century |
9856_3 | Apart from the work of some authors who provided information about the music in Cuba during the |
9856_4 | 19th century, that was usually included in chronicles covering a more general subject, the first |
9856_5 | investigations and studies specifically dedicated to the musical art and practice did not appear in |
9856_6 | Cuba until the beginning of the 20th century. |
9856_7 | At that time, musicological research and documentation in Cuba was not undertaken by professionals |
9856_8 | fully dedicated to that subject, but instead it was conducted by historians, ethnologists or |
9856_9 | composers such as polymath Fernando Ortiz (b. 1881) or composer Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes (b. |
9856_10 | 1874). The controversy sustained by these distinguished personalities in reference to the possible |
9856_11 | African (or indigenous) roots of Cuban music spanned several decades, from the 1930s to the 1950s. |
9856_12 | Another important personality, María Muñoz (b. 1886), a Galician pianist, professor and choir |
9856_13 | conductor that graduated at the Madrid Conservatory under the guidance of Manuel de Falla, |
9856_14 | developed an outstanding musical activity in Cuba. Together with her husband Antonio Quevedo, she |
9856_15 | co-founded the Society of Contemporary Music in 1929, promoted the cultural journal “Musicalia” and |
9856_16 | founded the Havana Choral Society. Together with Fernando Ortiz, she gave summer courses on |
9856_17 | musicology at the Havana University from the 1930s. Those courses nurtured and stimulated the |
9856_18 | careers of some future outstanding musicologists such as María Teresa Linares Savio (b. 1920). |
9856_19 | One of the earliest contribution to musicological studies in Cuba was provided by Emilio Grenet, |
9856_20 | brother of the famous Cuban composer Eliseo Grenet. |
9856_21 | Emilio Grenet was born in Havana in 1901 and passed away in the same city, in 1941. He studied |
9856_22 | Sight-reading and Music theory with professor Armando Laguardia and worked as a pianist in New York |
9856_23 | City in 1923. After returning to Cuba he traveled to Spain where he met composer Joaquín Turina who |
9856_24 | introduced him to his professor of Harmony, Conrado del Campo. |
9856_25 | Grenet returned again to Cuba where he worked in the Education Ministry Radio Station, started his |
9856_26 | investigations about the genres of Cuban popular music and travelled to New York City to record |
9856_27 | with the orchestra of his brother Eliseo Grenet. He taught Musical composition to the renowned |
9856_28 | Cuban conductor Enrique González Mántici and Harmony to the composer and guitarist Vicente González |
9856_29 | Rubiera (Guyún). |
9856_30 | In 1939, Grenet published his important work "Cuban popular music", which represented a serious |
9856_31 | study of the Cuban popular music genres, and a thorough insight into the most important aspects of |
9856_32 | the musical creation in Cuba, from the 19th Century until that time. The book also included 80 |
9856_33 | scores of representative compositions. |
9856_34 | 1940s and 1950s |
9856_35 | In 1946, the famous Cuban writer, art critic and musicologist Alejo Carpentier (b. 104) established |
9856_36 | a benchmark with his work “La música en Cuba” (1946), an attempt to put together a comprehensive |
9856_37 | history of Cuban music from the 16th century until his time. Although the work presented as facts |
9856_38 | some controversial historical issues, such as the origins of the well known “Son de la Mateodora” |
9856_39 | and the “Cuban Contradanza”, this important study (based on extensive investigations conducted by |
9856_40 | Carpentier) offered a deep insight into Cuban music history never witnessed before. |
9856_41 | Coincidentally, young composers and musicologists such as Argeliers León (b. 1918) and Hilario |
9856_42 | González (b. 1920) were diligently working along with José Ardévol at “Grupo de Renovación |
9856_43 | Musical” to improve and renovate the Cuban musical panorama. In 1947, Argeliers León continued |
9856_44 | offering the musicology summer courses started by María Muñoz and Fernando Ortiz at the Havana |
9856_45 | University and served as a professor of such prominent students as pianist and professor Ana |
9856_46 | Margarita Aguilera Ripoll (b. 1903), author of the important compilation of children songs |
9856_47 | “Cancionero Infantil de Hispanoamérica.” Other contemporary Cuban musicologists were María |
9856_48 | Antonieta Henriquez, founder of the National Museum of Music, and Lydia Cabrera, an anthropologist |
9856_49 | renowned for her studies of Afro-Cuban music. |
9856_50 | Post revolutionary period (1959) |
9856_51 | After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Pablo Hernández Balaguer (b. 1928) was teaching musicology at |
9856_52 | the Oriente University, an educational institution that offered the first Music Degree in the |
9856_53 | history of Cuba. Balaguer conducted an important study about the work of composer Esteban Salas and |
9856_54 | published the Music Catalog from the archives of the Santiago de Cuba Cathedral. He was a professor |
9856_55 | of several distinguished musicologists such as Virtudes Feliú Herrera (b. 1941), who conducted a |
9856_56 | thorough research into Cuban historical ritual and festive traditions. Her work has been compiled |
9856_57 | in the “Ethnographic Atlas of Cuba,” which received an award from the Cuban Academy of Science. |
9856_58 | Argeliers León and his wife María Teresa Linares Savio were the leading figures of Cuban musicology |
9856_59 | during the early decades after the Cuban Revolution (1959). Between 1961 and 1970, León was de |
9856_60 | director of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore at the Academy of Sciences of Cuba and he also |
9856_61 | headed the Folklore Department at the National Theater of Cuba, the Music Department of the José |
9856_62 | Martí National Library and the Music Department at Casa de Las Américas. He served as professor at |
9856_63 | the Havana Municipal Conservatory, taught African cultures in Cuba at the Havana University and |
9856_64 | musicology at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA). As a musicologist he published several books |
9856_65 | which included Del Canto y el Tiempo (1974), where he proposed a subdivision in “generic complexes” |
9856_66 | to study the musical styles in Cuba. |
9856_67 | María Teresa Linares conducted extensive investigation on several areas of Cuban music history and |
9856_68 | published numerous books and articles. She worked as a professor at the Alejandro García Caturla |
9856_69 | Conservatory, the Havana University and the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore at the Academy of |
9856_70 | Sciences. Until year 2000 she was the director of the Museum of Music, and at a later time she was |
9856_71 | affiliated to the Fernando Ortiz Foundation. |
9856_72 | During the first decade of the Cuban Revolution (1960 to 1970) an emerging generation of |
9856_73 | musicologists started to acquire recognition within the Cuban musical scene. We should mention, in |
9856_74 | first place, two humble and dedicated investigators that had certain common characteristics. They |
9856_75 | both had university backgrounds and worked for many years at the José Martí National Library as |
9856_76 | researchers; also their main subjects of investigation were somewhat related to the musicological |
9856_77 | work of Alejo Carpentier. Alberto Muguercia (b. 19280), a lawyer from Santiago de Cuba holds the |
9856_78 | honor of having refuted one of the greatest myths in the history of Cuban music: The “Son de la Ma |
9856_79 | Teodora” origins. In his famous book “La música en Cuba”, Alejo Carpentier categorically attributed |
9856_80 | a 16th-century origin to a popular melody called Son de la Ma Teodora without conducting a thorough |
9856_81 | investigation about the subject, thus establishing an erroneous fact as a popular tradition. In a |
9856_82 | brilliant article about this subject: “Teodora Ginés: ¿Mito o realidad histórica? Muguercia |
9856_83 | demonstrated the inaccuracy of this theory. |
9856_84 | In turn, Zolia Lapique (b. 1930), a librarian and historian, refuted a theory formulated by |
9856_85 | Carpentier in reference to the French-Haitian origin of the “Contradanza Cubana”. She attributed an |
9856_86 | earlier development and other possible origins (Spanish and English) to this musical style in her |
9856_87 | outstanding article: “Aportes Franco-Haitianos a la contradanza cubana: mitos y realidades.” |
9856_88 | Other prominent members of this generation are: Cristóbal Díaz Ayala (b. 1930), author of a |
9856_89 | complete Cuban music discography, Jorge Ibarra (b. 1931), Leonardo Acosta (b. 1933), Dulcila |
9856_90 | Cañizares (b. 1936), Raul Martínez Rodríguez (b. 1937), Helio Orovio (b. 1938), Radamés Giro (b. |
9856_91 | 1940), Danilo Orozco (b. 1944) and Alberto Faya (1944). |
9856_92 | The second generation (1970s) and beyond |
9856_93 | The members of the second generation of Cuban musicologists that appeared during the Cuban |
9856_94 | Revolution period, graduated in their great majority either from the Havana Municipal Conservatory |
9856_95 | or the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), which from 1976 offered the first Musicology Degree in the |
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