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Art Music by Caribbean Composers: Curacao

Author(s) -

Christine Gangelhoff,

Cathleen LeGrand

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

international journal of bahamian studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2220-5772

DOI - 10.15362/ijbs.v19i2.201

Subject(s) - waltz , blues , musical , dance , electronic dance music , art , popular music , visual arts , performance art , rhythm , art history , call and response , classical music , history , music history , aesthetics

Folk musical traditions of Curacao include tambu (also known as “the Curacao blues”) and tumba (Razak, 2005). Art music has long had a presence in Curacao. Orchestras, concert societies, and art musical instruction have been in place since the early 19th century (Gansemans, 2008). Composed dance music, for localized versions of dances such as waltz, polkas and mazurkas, is particularly popular in Curacao (Gansemans, 2008). “The most important of these is the Antillean waltz (also known as the Curacaoan waltz), distinguished from its European relatives chiefly by its differently accented rhythmic patterns” (Bilby, 2013, para. 10)

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