Seis composiciones a partir del análisis de doce piezas representativas del hard rock, funk y punk hecho hasta el año 1985

Abstract

Within the professional reality of a specific group of Colombian musicians, there are two contexts. The first is found in an academic environment governed by theoretical elements inherited from European art music or elements derived from American jazz. From this come all sorts of rules, aesthetics, and compositional techniques, extensively documented. The second is a contrasting field where the empiricism of urban music, born and developed in the streets and taken to recording studios to be commercially produced without academic purposes, is a salient characteristic. Since both perspectives are an integral part of this specific group of musicians, it is necessary to propose a work that analytically reflects a combination of academic methodologies and the fundamentals of commercial urban music. For this reason, this work reviews the compositional process of six songs, consisting of musical elements extracted from three contrasting subgenres of Rock: Hard rock, Funk, and Punk, through the analysis of twelve representative themes, that is, four per subgenre. The argument of this work is supported by research based on interviews with experts on the subject, scrutinizing the appropriate criteria for choosing the themes to be analyzed, according to the experience of each interviewee and the debate with the author. Likewise, through consulting documents such as record classification books by catalog and video references, among others, various points of view of foreign authors and characteristics of creative processes in the genres were corroborated, such as their origin, composition, socio-cultural environment, studio production, dissemination, reception, and the importance of certain songs for their contribution, in terms of musical and cultural material. The creative work requires extracting, isolating, and recognizing the compositional elements that are part of each of the subgenres treated, in order to apply all this material in unpublished works. In this aspect, transcription and analysis are the tools to be used. The writing serves as evidence of the author's compositional experience, who, through a concern, poses a problem and develops a product presented in this work.