Ese trasiego del que hablas Nacho, era impresionante. Yo apenas tengo una idea general por lo que he leído y escuchado, pero imagino a los músicos españoles, formados en la España del barroco, como Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco, que se empeñó en montar una ópera en la Lima virreinal, echando mano de los indigenas, con sus propias tradiciones musicales y ritmos y en muchos casos sus propios instrumentos, de lo cual resultaba un producto mestizo y extraordinario. Y me imagino también muchos de estos ritmos haciendo la travesía de vuelta hacia la península, y colándose en la música europea a través de España. Fíjate lo que dice la Wikipedia de la Zarabanda, una de las "danzas" qespañolas del barroco que he apuntado en mi post anterior:Iniciado por nacho66
"In music, the sarabande (It., sarabanda) is a slow dance in triple metre with the distinctive feature that beats 2 and 3 of the measure are often tied, giving a distinctive rhythm of crotchet and minim in alternation. The minims are said to have corresponded with dragging steps in the dance.
The sarabande is first mentioned in Central America: in 1539, a dance called a zarabanda is mentioned in a poem written in Panama by Fernando Guzmán Mexía.[1] Apparently the dance became popular in the Spanish colonies before moving back across the Atlantic to Spain. While it was banned in Spain in 1583 for its obscenity, it was frequently cited in literature of the period (for instance in works by Cervantes and Lope de Vega).
Later, it became a traditional movement of the suite during the baroque period. The baroque sarabande is commonly a slow triple rather than the much faster Spanish original, consistent with the courtly European interpretations of many Latin dances. The sarabande form was revived in the 20th Century by composers such as Debussy, Satie and, in a different style, Vaughan Williams (in Job) and Benjamin Britten (in the Simple Symphony)
Perhaps the most famous sarabande is the anonymous La folie espagnole whose melody appears in pieces by dozens of composers from the time of Monteverdi and Corelli through the present day.
O sea, una historia que empieza en Panamá en 1535 y acaba en una suite para cello de Bach.
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