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Canta a Chanson (2023)

Wimian Hernández
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Serge Koussevitsky’s Chanson Triste and Orestes López’s Canta Contrabajo Canta are the main focus of this research project. As a Cuban bassist I would like to share with my listeners the same sensation I experienced when I discovered that López wrote his piece based on Koussevitzky's but in Cuban Danzòn form. The score of Canta Contrabajo Canta no longer exists, so one of the contributions of this project is a notated score of my own version of the piece constructed by listening to the recordings. This will make future performances of the piece possible internationally, so that a wider range of musicians will be able to access this work, beyond the narrow circle of Cuban double bass players who learn the work through oral tradition today. The project also contains information the Cuban Danzón, its historical context, composers who were inspired by it to create new works and how Cuban composers incorporated Western Classical melodies into their Danzóns. I also discuss the oral tradition through which many musicians learned to play instruments in Cubas as well as the lives of Cuban double bass players connected to Canta Contrabajo Canta, as well as Serge Koussevitzky and his contribution to the Cuban repertoire for the double bass.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsDouble Bass'Recording, arrangement, biography
date22/11/2022
published19/07/2023
last modified19/07/2023
statuslimited publication
share statusprivate
copyrightWimian Hernandez
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1827189/1827190
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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