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	Music of Guatemala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Native traditional music stems from the culture of the Maya people, and has been modified by the influx of Spanish and West African immigrants beginning in the 16th century.
		Their music is rhythmic and communal, with a call and response structure and spiritual or ritual purposes.
		Other forms of Guatemalan music include brass bands and a number of instrumental styles: the q'eqchi violin, guitar and harp ensemble and the k'iche and kaqchikel flute and drum [2].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Guatemala (542 words)

	Central American music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most well-known form of Central American popular music is punta, a style innovated by the syncretic Garifunas who live across the region, especially in Honduras and Belize.
		Aside from having the most active Garifuna music scene, especially the field of punta, Belize is also known for brukdown, a popular genre that developed in the mining camps in the interior of the country.
		Nicaraguan music is traditionally marimba-based, and includes the well-known dance music of the Palo de Mayo festival, which is held every May.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Central_American_music (368 words)

	Guatemala, Guide All
		Guatemala is a small country located in Central America.
		It is well know for it's beautiful landscapes of volcanoes and lakes, the maya ruins of Tikal, The Rio Dulce river, the colonial City of Antigua and many other locations.
		Guatemala is located in the center of the American continent, 1600 kilometers north of the equator.
	www.guideall.com /guatemala.htm (232 words)

	CD Baby: ARS NOVA DE GUATEMALA: El Repertorio de Catedral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Early Music of Guatemala, baroque church villancicos in Spanish; choir, soloists and instruments such as harp, harpsichord, organ, cello, bassoon, etc.
		Musical practice in the cathedrals of Colonial times fulfilled an essential duty, that of conferring solemnity and splendour to Christian ritual.
		However, we prefer to consider this as the date of its performance, rather than the date when it was written, since the musical structure and style of the piece comply entirely with the structure and style in fashion during the second half of the 17th century.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/lehnhoff (1383 words)

	Music from Guatemala / cdRoots
		Guatemala is not a rich country, measured solely in stricticaly economic terms.
		This fascinating instrument is represented here in many forms, from the more traditional type used for the suggestive music played at the local dances, to the concert insrument that once gave the virtuosic, sophisticated music from Guatemala world-wide fame in salons and concert halls.
		"Music From Guatemala (Caprice), a 2-CD compilation recorded in 1999 and co-produced by the Swedish Concert Institute and the Guatemalan Ministry of Culture and Sports, presents the country's distinctive blend of Mayan, African and European musical traditions.
	www.cdroots.com /cda-guatemala1.html (448 words)

	Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
		Merete did her undergraduate studies at the Norwegian State Academy of Music, and is currently a student at the University College of Opera in Stockholm, Sweden.
		The Jenny Lind concert is co-sponsored by the Royal Music Academy, Folkparkerna, in Stockholm, Sweden and the Consulate General of Sweden in San Francisco.
		Rhythm and harmony emerge from musical interplay, structures are blending past recognition and it is music that remains.
	www.helloari.com /portfolio/www/ybae/concerts/june_spirit.htm (716 words)

	Guatemala - General Information
		Giant kites are flown in the cemeteries of Santiago Sacatepéquez and Sumpango near Antiqua Guatemala.
		Guatemala is in the Central Standard Time zone and does not observe daylight-savings time.
		Guatemala covers 42,000 square miles and is at the northern end of the Central American isthmus (It is approximately the size of the state of Kentucky).
	centralamerica.com /guatemala/guatemalainfo.htm (687 words)

	BBC - Weather Centre - World Weather - Country Guides - Guatemala
		Guatemala is one of the larger countries of Central America whose weather and climate are described in more detail in the Panama pages.
		Lying between 14° and 18°N, Guatemala is bordered on the north by Mexico, on the east by Belize, and on the south by Honduras and El Salvador.
		A large part of the hilly country is typical tierra templada, and the climatic conditions are well represented by the table for Guatemala City, which has a very pleasant climate.
	www.bbc.co.uk /weather/world/country_guides/results.shtml?tt=TT001860 (239 words)

	Marimba: Telling the Story of Guatemala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The marimba plays a prominent role in much Central and South American music and may therefore be considered a fairly universal instrument in that part of the world.
		This most modern type of marimba was developed in the 1890’s as an attempt at imitating the musical possibilities of the piano.
		In more elite musical arenas, mastery of the marimba is proof of a musician’s excellence as a percussionist.
	home.messiah.edu /~rb1270 (3003 words)

	World Beat: Music From Somewhere Else (6 February 2002) - PopMatters Music Column
		For instance, Jesuit missionary reports on Maya and Garifuna music were typically hostile to the perceived expression of "pagan" beliefs in expressive performance, a culturally loaded way of saying that native peoples combined their own spiritual traditions with those of the conquerors.
		Garifuna music builds on an ensemble of three garaon drums: the improvising primera or heart drum, the counter-rhythmic segunda or shadow drum, and the steady bass-line tercera.
		Music from Guatemala 1, Caprice CAP 21598 (1999 field recording of Maya and Mestizo music, with ample representation of the marimba)
	www.popmatters.com /music/columns/stone/020206.html (1592 words)

	Sacred Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Five ensembles form the backbone of Music Ministry at St. Matthew's: the Schola Cantorum, the Gregorian Scholars, Capilla Musical Iberoamericana, the Contemporary Choir, and the St. Matthew's Festival Singers.
		The Contemporary Choir provides music for the 5:30 Sunday evening Mass throughout the year, with a repertoire that focuses on the best of today's liturgical music composers as well as settings of traditional hymns; gospel, American spirituals, and the traditional faith music of America.
		Music by Thomas Tomkins and his contemporaries will be performed by Sally Dunkley and Jacqueline Horner (sopranos), Philip Cave (tenor) and Gabriel Crouch (bass) and members of the Schola Cantorum of St. Matthew's Cathedral.
	www.stmatthewscathedral.org /sacredmusic.html (1814 words)

	Orellana: UNESCO Secteur de la culture
		Born in Guatemala City, 1937; studied violin and composition at the National Conservatory of Music in Guatemala between 1949 and 1959.
		His conception and development of new instruments derived from the marimba plays also a major role on his musical trajectory.
		As remarked by several researchers, during the last decades his music reflects a compromise with the social situation of Guatemala’s poorest class, focusing on the traditional folk culture, local expression and sound environment.
	portal.unesco.org /culture/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=16618&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html (108 words)

	guateteach.html
		It is called the "Land of Eternal Spring," because the weather there (at least in the mountainous part of the country) is warm in the day and cool at night all year long.
		Since we go to Guatemala every year to visit our friends and family, I could start a teaching project there to encourage students to study the harp.
		Students came from four cities in Guatemala to take lessons on the three harps that I had available.
	www.geocities.com /patricefisher/guateteach.html (703 words)

	AMERICAS SOCIETY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Music by María Cecilia Villanueva, Mario Davidovsky, and Ludwig van Beethoven
		This concert, an innovative Music Education collaboration between Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Americas Society, will present members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in a Latin American program featuring all-time favorites Astor Piazzolla and Heitor Villa-Lobos, and rarely heard masterpieces from the 17th to the 20th century.
		New York's vibrant Ensemble Sospeso performs music composed on the fertile soil of the Rio de la Plata at the time that José Gurvich and other painters, musicians, and writers transformed El Taller Torres-García into a center for a revolutionary aesthetic search.
	www.americas-society.org /as/music/concerts.html (507 words)

	Sergio Navarrete Pellicer: Maya Achi Marimba Music in Guatemala - Print
		This in-depth study on one of that nation's marimba musical cultures combines historical background with intelligent analysis and perceptive interpretation of contemporary practice to advance our understanding of a major musical tradition in Latin America.
		For the Achi, one of the several Mayan ethnic groups indigenous to Guatemala, the music of the marimba serves not only as a form of entertainment but also as a form of communication, a vehicle for memory, and an articulation of cultural identity.
		Sergio Navarrete Pellicer examines the marimba tradition—the confluence of African musical influences, Spanish colonial power, and Indian ethnic assimilation—as a driving force in the dynamics of cultural continuity and change in Rabinal, the heart of Achi culture and society.
	www.temple.edu /tempress/titles/1733_reg_print.html (312 words)

	LATIN AMERICAN MSS.--GUATEMALA MUSIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Guatemala music manuscripts, late 16th-early 17th centuries (ca.
		Used in the pueblos of Santa Eulalia, San Juan Ixcoi, and San Mateo Ixtatan in the department of Huehuetenango in northwest Guatemala, some of the fragile codices bear the signatures of Francisco de Leon and Tomas Pascual who served as maestros de capilla.
		Descriptive elements and inventories of the first nine of the manuscripts may be found in works by Robert Stevenson: "European Music in 16th Century Guatemala" in The Musical Quarterly, pages 341-352, Vol.
	www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/latinamguam.html (221 words)

	CBS Survivor: Guatemala and the Music of the Marimba
		CBS Survivor: Guatemala and the Music of the Marimba
		In Guatemala, the marimba is considered THE national instrument, with government ordinances actually requiring broadcasts of marimba programming on a daily basis.
		A principal musical conduit of entertainment and artistic expression in both southern Mexico and Central America, the Marimba tradition is a shared experience throughout much of
	www.geocities.com /marimbasoldechiapas/Survivor_Guatemala.html (269 words)

	Best Kept Secrets: 2002 / RootsWorld Recording Review
		The musically spare palette of the Farm Boys, who hail from Roatán, in the Bay Islands off the Caribbean coast, reflects the influence of the English-speaking population that still dominates the islands, which belong to otherwise Spanish-speaking Honduras.
		Music of Guatemala, a two-volume Folkways release of Maya and Ladino music, presents several more chirimía tracks, and is the original source of the chirimía tune heard on the preceding anthology.
		Their music fitted in admirably with the spirit of the tranquil moonlight night among the San Antonio hills." A romantically tinged expression of admiration for Maya musicianship, to be sure, but this and prior 19th-century descriptions suggest the persistence of a certain aesthetically conservative core in traditional Maya music and dance.
	www.rootsworld.com /reviews/stone-centam.shtml (3633 words)

	Garifuna Music: Michael Stone
		Garifuna music builds on an ensemble of two and preferably, three garaon drums: the improvising primera or heart drum, the counter-rhythmic segunda or shadow drum, and the steady bass-line tercera.
		Having lived in Belize, and knowing Garifuna communities down the Caribbean coast into Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, it is clear that the cultural, socioeconomic and political circumstances under which they live have not improved markedly, and music in everyday context reflects that fact.
		Music and dance are integral to daily life, no commercially sequestered reserve for full-time professionals and their moneyed fans.
	www.rootsworld.com /reviews/garifuna.html (1910 words)

	Guatemala 2
		In the afternoon we visited a huge fair, which was part of the festivities around the Independence Day of Guatemala on October 15th.
		After a few beers we decided to give it one more shot because nice (!) music was coming from the square.
		In Guatemala there is a big social and economical gap between these two groups with the latinos in power (broadly speaking, this is what caused the bloody civil war that went on for 36 years during which 140.000 people were massacred or simply dissapeared).
	members.chello.nl /rozema/Guatemala_2/guatemala_2.html (953 words)

	Revue Magazine - Guatemala Feliz: The Odyssey of Guatemala’s National Anthem
		Rafael Alvarez was born in 1858 in Comalapa, a highland town famous for its primitive painters.
		In Dresner’s absence, Rafael Alvarez was Guatemala’s pre-eminent composer.
		The Music Academy of Milan has since declared this national hymn as one of the best anthems in the world; it is certainly the most glandular anthem in Central America.
	www.revuemag.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=247 (1918 words)

	Music Department Faculty
		Timothy Durkovic has been hailed by critics as "Guatemala's grand national revelation of the twentieth century." Born and raised in Guatemala City, he began his piano studies at the age of five.
		Making his first solo appearance when he was eleven, he soon thereafter entered the National Conservatory of Music of Guatemala studying with the renowned Consuelo Medinilla.
		Durkovic was invited to be a Guest Lecturer at the USC Thornton School of Music as Mr.
	www.ulv.edu /music/faculty/durkovic.html (287 words)

	Central America: Music at cdRoots
		The king of brukdown music in Belize is undeniably the ineffable Mr Wilfred Peters.
		His father, a well known Parrandero, and his mother, a Punta composer, instilled in their son a love for the distinctive music of the Garifuna, and the ability to feel and play it with deep emotion.
		Marimba ensembles are a major feature, from the more traditional type used for the suggestive music played at the local dances, to the concert insrument that once gave the virtuosic, sophisticated music from Guatemala world-wide fame in salons and concert halls.
	www.cdroots.com /centralamerica.shtml (1811 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Music: Mid-Winter Festival Schedule
		Monteverdi and His Milieu: Early Baroque Music From Italy: Monteverdi is the stylistic bridge from the Renaissance to the Baroque.
		Una Panthera: Music From the Trecento and Early Renaissance Italy: Exotic and enchanting music from the early Renaissance, with selections from the Ars Nova style and other Early Renaissance music by Ciconia and Landini.
		It's not specifically theatre, and it's not specifically a concert, it's not specifically an opera, it's not specifically early music, classical music, folk music, pop music, or big band, or music that has to be composed next month.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-01-25/music_feature3.html (537 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES MP3/WMA: Moscow Symphony Orchestra
		The MSO has been a regular feature of Moscow’s musical life since the early 1990s, performing in two of the city’s leading halls, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and Tchaikovsky Hall.
		This means that you can submit a media file of any public domain music or that of copyrighted compositions if you have the permission from the appropriate copyright holder.
		Note that this notice refers in particular to the score of the pieces and not to the media files themselves which are copyrighted by their respective creator at the moment of the performance - whether live or step-by-step or mixed.
	www.classicalarchives.com /artists/moscow_sym_orch.html (819 words)

	O’Brien-Rothe, Linda Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		O’Brien-Rothe has published several recordings, including Music of Guatemala (1975), Music of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala (1977), and Songs of the Face of the Earth: Ancestor Songs of the Tzuthil-Maya Indians of Guatemala (1976).
		Contents: music for Holy Week, baile de la conquista, bin rxin ruch'lew (songs of the face of the earth), cofradia entertainment music, fiesta of Santiago, baile de los Mexicanos, and music of Cofradia San Juan, Fiesta.
		Contents: baile de la conquista, Bin rxin ruch'lew (songs of the face of the earth), brass band music, miscellaneous songs and instrumental music, and interviews with various performers.
	www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu /Archive/bioobrien.htm (201 words)

	Tikal, Guatemala Photo Adventures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MARIMBA OF GUATEMALA IN RealPlayer FORMAT - They are proud of the variety of resources whereupon Guatemala counts, which they want to share with the entire world, and have time to protect, because this one is a country with great natural diversity, cultural and full of intense color..
		The quetzalnet.com, is pleased in offering a musical tribute to Guatemala, its earth, to its people, in the inspiration of its composers.
		All together there were only seven people on the plane ride to Petén, Guatemala and we were spread out in the plane to even the load.
	www.concentric.net /~yohon/tikal.html (1682 words)

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