Lauro Ayestarán and Carlos Vega’s Phraseology in the Transcription of the Candombe Drums

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musical analysis, Afro-Cuban clave, Afro-Uruguayan music

Abstract

This paper examines the transcriptions of Afro-Latin American music made by the Uruguayan musicologist Lauro Ayestarán in 1948 and 1965: the “habanera” and its presence in Uruguay in the last third of the nineteenth century; the llamadas (“calling”) by drumming and marching corps of candombe, a musical practice originally played and danced by Afro-Uruguayan people, currently part of this country’s national popular culture.

I will argue that his transcriptions followed the principles of the Fraseología (“Phraseology”) by the Argentinian musicologist Carlos Vega (published in 1941). His approach had certain consequences involving: a specific analytic/visual representation of drumming patterns; the (mis)readings of these representations by later generations of Uruguayan musicians; the relation with the “sides” of the Afro-Cuban clave pattern 3-2, pointed in 2010 by Coriún Aharonián following Ayestarán’s transcriptions.

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  • Luis Ferreira, Universidad Nacional de San Martín

    Luis Ferreira es Licenciado en Música por la Universidad de la República, Uruguay (UdelaR), Magíster y Doctor en Antropología Social por la Universidad de Brasília (UnB). Sus principales áreas de interés comprenden las músicas afro-latinoamericanas y los estudios de cultura, poder y relaciones raciales. Es profesor titular de antropología del Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de San Martín (IDAES/UNSAM); imparte también seminarios en el Doctorado en Música de la Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), y en el Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel de Falla y el Instituto de Investigación en Etnomusicología (DGEArt/GCABA).

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2019-09-02

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No. 20 (2019): Dosier: Perspectives in Music Theory

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“Lauro Ayestarán and Carlos Vega’s Phraseology in the Transcription of the Candombe Drums”. 2019. Revista Argentina de Musicología, no. 20 (September): 157-74. https://ojs.aamusicologia.ar/index.php/ram/article/view/242.