Sometimes we are in hands, comes without asking permission and install within us saddens us, it becomes part of us, moves us, makes you wonder with our feelings, our pain, relaxes us, stimulates us.
acts upon our psyche, manage our anxiety and even our mood can change, because it becomes a balm. Has all the ability and leads to moments of euphoria and even has the gift of pain relief. Of producing pleasure and magnify the moments when she is present.
large extent that we wake up every emotion that we put the checkered life, we assume grandiose, which is more or less beautiful, that it is abstract, dark depends, for a change of mathematics.
She, my friends, of whom I write is the lady that perfumes my days since I have reason and caution if not beyond. She is the Lady Music.
These five dashes, and horizontal equidistant, we call staff, are like a big mathematical formula that a being called a musician, put the factors, which are the notes and distributed at will-allegedly-beats, rhythms, melodies, scales and silences.
One of our headaches in adolescence, The Lord Pythagoras was the first to establish the relationship between music and mathematics. He realized that the melodies could be measured by reason of integers. Found that there was a relationship between tones and harmonics sounding string instruments sounded good because the distance between a rope from the other.
Pythagoras found that by dividing a string in the middle produced a sound that was an octave higher than the original (C to C above), that when the ratio was 2:3 there was a fifth (the distance from C to G) and other nice sounds produced simple reasons. If we keep dividing
These proportions are those that define most of the scales and tunings that exist in the various world music. Even among different cultures There is a wide variety of types of scale, the fact is that there are also a number of similarities. Which suggests that music far removed, geographically and historically, underlying universal principles based on mathematical concepts.
concepts such as symmetry, geometric shapes, mathematical proportions governing many artistic creations of man and give it its beauty. The dance, for example, involves a more dynamic view of world proportions. In mathematics it is manifested as processes, software development in action. Many compositions flirt with geometry, number patterns and frequencies.
Throughout history and across cultures, mathematics and art have to be deeply related. The beauty of a rose, a sculpture of a Bach fugue ser'ia no such without the mathematical principles they embody. Unconsciously we react to these mathematical relationships still do not understand, are a universal language that man has been served, be served and will serve to create.
Last September 15 marked one year since someone had the bad taste of leaving this life. That someone is none other than Aldemaro Zerpa Romero. A Aldemaro not it can be cataloged as a musician, a specific gender. You can not be referred to as folk, although his New Wave is based on the replacement of the harp, maracas four by the trio of piano, keyboards, bass and drums. Nor is it strictly a popular musician, yet his music is heard on radio by various singers and versions, as well as it can not be called an academic composer in the classical sense. He was all and none. Aldemaro in the three areas with its own light shine, expanded and developed an enviable career. Furthermore, analyzing the musical movement of late twentieth century Venezuela, their work can not be located in any stream, hence its great. You can not be called "Pre-Nationalist" as his academic work does not originate in the nineteenth century, is not part of the "National School, from which came Antonio Estévez, Evencio and Gonzalo Castellanos, Inocente Carreno, and lead Vicente Emilio Sojo teacher. Much less current in contemporary musical where Federico Ruiz, Luis Morales Bance, Juan Carlos Nunez, AlfonsoTenreiro, Alberto del Monaco, etc ..., it appears much Aldemaro before.
An unusual case in the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra for decades Aldemaro music was outlawed as it was disconcerting to the founders of it, that the Venezuelan musician most internationally exhibited no formal training. It is, well, ironic that one of the most beautiful Venezuelan waltzes and, critics say, the best compound in Venezuela is his "De Conde a Principal." Therefore, Aldemaro is unique, a self-taught musician that can not be placed in any stream and at the same time, is in all things. A musician composer, performer, arranger and performer who has influenced musicians, academics and / or popular, in recent years in Venezuela.
"The Bird seen and developed by Aldemaro Romero"
The joropo say joropo and causes me a problem. If I say that is a typical musical air Venezuela, I think an insurmountable problem with my Colombian friends since they also take it as theirs. Finally, and praying that the stars will guide me, the joropo is a typical genre Colombo-Venezuelan Llanos of complex structure, has a devilish pace 6 / 8 reaching a limp 3 / 4 and up to 3 / 2 , and is one of the most disconcerting rhythms to those who have studied the academic music.
allegedly derived from the fandango, but here I generated another problem. In authorities dictionary, published in six volumes by the Real Academia in 1735, defines fandango as "dance made by those who have been in the kingdoms of the Indies, which makes the sound of a ringing very happy and lively" . In this sense I leave the baton to the academics, the fact that the fandango was such in the eighteenth century academic composers such as Padre Antonio Soler, author of the famous "Fandango" and Domenico Scarlatti, who created the "Indian Fandango" , we demonstrate its importance in the social area at the time.
Back to our latitudes and not lose the thread. The joropo, besides being also a very attractive dance-The valsiao, the escobillao and shoe ... a long topic for another blog, who dares? -. Say the joropo, from the musical point of view, is as mestizo as ourselves. In the strings of the harp, the cuatro and the mandolin, in addition to his verse -tenths and the verses, we see the European presence. In the fierce and fun melody, could be the contribution of African and stamped with the maracas, the Indian baskets.
The joropo, Venezuela, is an incredibly broad genre. To further complicate the matter, is also derived in different ways depending on the region of the country. Joropo Plains, Central Joropo tuyero Hit-and-Joropo East Joropo Guiana.
joropo uncomplicated long as we have in Venezuela: Six law Zumba Zumba, Periquera, Carnival, Gabon, Chipola, Quirpa, Guacharaca, Corrido, San Rafael, Revuelta tuyero, Six to Yaguazo, Guabina, Los Cantiles Volvona Row, Double Veil, Cubanero, Jack Enmochilao, Llavajero, Six Guiana Josa, Marisela, Six numerao, Pasaje, Catira ... the most refined would l E-Bird.
The Bird ... Aldemaro I leave here, just him and his work may explain much better than my words.
First "Bird " . Aldemaro version made directly from the folklore, the first disc "New Wave" . Voices: Maria Elena Pena, Zenaida Riera, José Ramón Angarita and Ali Agüero.
Second. "Pajarillo" hermosísima with the voice of Maria Teresa Slaughter , the letter of Manuel Graterol Santander, arrangements and direction of Aldemaro Romero with the London Philharmonic.
Third. "Escape with Bird " Suite for Strings. Inglés Chamber Orchestra. Aldemaro Romero directs. Joropo gown.
Fourth. "Escape with Bird." Version Camerata Criolla and reviewed by the same Aldemaro. Live recording from the Teatro Teresa Carreño, June 2002. Fusion of academic music and most genuine of Venezuelan folklore. The work of the strings is a must, and according to Ali Aguero excellent.
Fifth, "Toccata and Bird Bachiana Aldemaro" , Orquesta Sinfónica Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho, director Rodolfo Saglimbeni. Live recording thanks Juanpa. It is all my favorite birds of Aldemaro. The strings are heavenly and metals are to be out of breath for a month. In some passages of the Toccata reminds me of the orchestration, which was to Leopold Stokowski Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach for the Walt Disney film Fantasia. Collaboration that brought more than a headache for the director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The purists attacked again and not spared Stokowski orchestration of original sheet music for Organ Bach-tubular-a philharmonic orchestra. Time has proved right since every orchestra that plays such an arrangement is appreciated.
This post is not only to remember that there is a Venezuelan named Aldemaro brilliant musician, is an excuse to give all Venezuelans living abroad, a piece of ours.
intimate is also my gift to my "4 Cats" and, above all, my beloved Empress of China, who had a birthday and waiting for me, I hope not smoking opium, in Shanghai.
All the best for you.
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