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