Cumbero, Pompo, Rirrá, Tamboririto, Jala-Jala, Merenguillo y Paseaíto: ritmos de la música tropical del siglo XX. Digitalización, catalogación y transcripción de música del Fondo Documental Antonio Cuéllar

Abstract

The thesis Cumbero, Pompo, Rirrá, Tamborito, Jala-Jala, Merenguillo y Paseaíto: Ritmos de la Música Tropical del Siglo XX, Digitalización, Catalogación y Transcripción de Música of the document repository of the Faculty of Arts ASAB of the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. With the intention of inquiring into the presence and importance of percussion in tropical music, after an initial inquiry related to the dynasty of percussionists of the Cuao’s Family, the course of this work resulted in the encounter of numerous rhythms grown in the coastal music, which draw the attention of the author because they are unusual currently. This previous action, gave rise to the execution of a more detailed follow-up of some of them found on the album “A Puro Ritmo” of Armando Galán, due to an unusual wealth was identified on these ones. Additionally, the rhythm Paseaíto was selected, which within the inquiries done in this work, stood out for its strongest presence. A balance of the results obtained at the completion of the work yielded the sound and image digitization of 215 musical pieces and the folder-base selection and organizing of the audios related to the genres: Paseíto, Paseaíto, Pasiaíto, Cumbero, Pompo, Patacumbia, Tumbason, Tamborera, Tuqui-Tuiqui, Mece-Mece, Chiquichá, Jalaíto, Macumba, that so far have been digitized from the collection Antonio Cuéllar. The thesis also brings in the musical transcription of the rhythm-harmonic foundation of the rhythms Cumbero, Pompo, Rirrá, Jala-Jala, Merenguillo, Tamborito and Paseaíto, for which was necessary gathering and/or creating musical scripts which were able to describe the rhythmic tones used in the recordings. Finally, 43 audio tracks were recorded, which correspond to the musical transcriptions done.