Jack Délano’s (1914-1997) Burundanga or Cantata Antillana: an art-music portrayal of Luis Palés Matos’s (1898-1959) black Caribbean
Tapia-Santiago, Daniel A.
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Title
Jack Délano’s (1914-1997) Burundanga or Cantata Antillana: an art-music portrayal of Luis Palés Matos’s (1898-1959) black Caribbean
Author(s)
Tapia-Santiago, Daniel A.
Issue Date
2011-08-25T22:09:22Z
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Alwes, Chester L.
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Alwes, Chester L.
Committee Member(s)
Moersch, Charlotte Mattax
Taylor, Stephen A.
Ward, Thomas R.
Department of Study
Music
Discipline
Music
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
A.Mus.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Jack Délano
Burundanga
Luis Palés Matos
Canción festiva para ser llorada
Cantata Antillana
Puerto Rican choral-orchestral compositions
Puerto Rican choral music
Caribbean art-music
Abstract
This is an analytical study of "Burundanga" or "Cantata Antillana" by Jack Délano (1914-1997). One of Délano’s most ambitious choral-orchestral compositions, "Burundanga" was completed in 1989 in response to a commission from the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and is based on Luis Palés Matos’s (1898-1959) extravagant and elaborate poem "Canción festiva para ser llorada" (A Festive Song to be Wept).
"Burundanga" stands at the foreground of Puerto Rican art-music in the twentieth century. With its neoclassical language and integration of Caribbean folkloric material, it emerges as a unique reflection of the highly complex geographical, social, cultural and musical reality of Puerto Rico and the Antilles. The analysis underscores the relationships between the textual images and the musical resources employed in their setting, focusing on the composition’s formal, melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, orchestrational and expressive elements. It also discerns particular methods by which the composer utilized and adapted Afro-Antillean idioms and combined them with art-music components to portray idiosyncratic aspects of Caribbean culture in a universalistic musical language.
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