Manuel Saumell: 51 Cuban Contradanzas for Solo Piano
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This book presents the musical compositions of Cuban composer and pianist, Manuel Saumell, 51 Cuban Contradanzas for Solo Piano.
The book also contains various informative articles including: a biography of Manuel Saumell Robredo; Rhythms of Cuba in the XIX Century; The Genealogy of the Danzón; and What is the contradanza or contredanse?; as well as Glossary of Cuban Music Terms; List of Cuban Instruments, and List of important Cuban Musicians.
Saumell’s Cuban creole contradanzas are masterful works were originally composed for solo piano some time during the middle of the 19th century.
The contradanza was originally called contredanse or country-dance which originated in England; from there it migrated to France and the rest of Europe. Later it began to arrive in Cuba with the Spaniards in the 17th century. But it was not until the French colonialists migrated to Cuba in the late 18th Century and beginning of the 19th Century that the Country-dance began to flourish especially in the eastern part of Cuba where the French mostly settled.
Soon thereafter the contredanse began to go through creolization which is the process of blending different cultures or languages to create a new culture or language; thus, it became known in Cuba as Contradanza. This process was made possible by blending the pure Cuban genre called habanera, which was originally a genre related to dance and purely instrumental. Later around the middle of the 19th Century the contradanza and the habanera became an integral part of the new rhythm called, Danzón.
Language : English
Paperback : 91 pages
Item Weight : 10.6 ounces
Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.22 x 11 inches