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(Blas Valera)
“And you don't just die a death that belongs to everyone, but
also your mind, your ingenuity, your culture, your customs”.
(Blas Valera)
Have our peoples ever sung and danced with sounds born in the heart of our
land?... The researcher and musician from Chachapoyas, Marco Antonio Tuesta
Arana, has answered the question that he himself has always asked himself and
that today he shares that same answer with the world.
“1782 and 1785 were years of crossroads for the cultures that would remain
recorded in the watercolor and in the score of the Bishop of Trujillo Baltasar Jaime
Martínez Compañón y Bujanda. In this pastoral visit that he made, he recorded the
life of the population of northern Peru in its most varied material and immaterial
manifestations, which will be extracted for posterity in 1411 watercolors and 20
scores”. (Marco Antonio Tuesta Arana. Extracted from the presentation of the
album: “De las nubes y su letargo”. 2013)
The Codex Martínez de Compañón has been the bibliographic reference source
most used by researchers to study the cultural manifestations of Peru from the
years 1782 to 1785. The cultural manifestations and the daily life of the inhabitants
of Chachapoyas of those years were also recorded in this Codex, both in
watercolor and in 4 scores, are these scores that Marco Antonio Tuesta Arana
rescue from silence and record them so that the singing of the Chachapoyan
musicians of those years doesn’t succumb to the silence of oblivion.
“Tonada El Diamante, para baylar cantando de Chachapoias”, “Tonada El Huicho
de Chachapoyas”, “Cachuyta de la montaña llamadase El Buen Querer”, “Tonada
El Conejo, a voz y bajo para bailar cantando”; are the original titles of the melodys
registered by Martínez de Compañón in scores and today are available for
enjoyment of all in the most visited digital platforms and social networks.
Traducción:
Lic. Tur. Adm.
Yuliza Esther Zagaceta Olascoaga
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