Digitalización, catalogación y transcripción de música del fondo documental Antonio Cuellar. Música tropical en Colombia: el caso de Edmundo Arias

Abstract

This work focuses on the digitization of audio and image files from the production of Colombian musician, Edmundo Arias. The Archive of Antonio Cuellar can be located in the Documentation Center of the "Gabriel Esquinas" Arts Faculty of Arts at ASAB District University Francisco Jose de Caldas. Arias was born in Tulua, Valle on December 5, 1925 and died in Medellin, Antioquia on 27 January 1993. He was characterized for being a versatile artist who contributed to popular recordings as a composer, director, lyricist and arranger of music in various formats and styles which include genres such as bolero, gaita, cumbia, pasillo and even jazz. He formed and led the Sonora Antillana, the Colombian Estudiantina Patria, Edmundo Arias Orchestra and other groups that recorded with various Colombian labels. In the musical collection Antonio Cuellar has approximately 165 records preserved (over 300 songs) which have been digitized in this work providing the general catalog of the collection. There are also 9 transcripts of interesting topics that were considered interesting.