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Carillon Arrangements of Puerto Rican Danzas

  • 23 Jul 2024
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Date: Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Time: 11am Eastern (8am Pacific)

Barnes Presentation: Carillon Arrangements of Puerto Rican Danzas

Carlos G. Colon-Ortiz is a graduate student at the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida. He graduated with a music performance minor in carillon in May 2022 with over 4 years of performance experience. During the same month, he was also awarded the Sally Slade Warner Arrangement and Transcription Competition Performance Award. His work was a transcription of El Coquí, a traditional Puerto Rican Danza by José Ignacio Quintón (1881-1925). Due to this distinction, his piece was performed at the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon at the University of Chicago (IL) during the annual congress of The Guild of Carillonneurs of North America (GCNA) in June 2022. In his continued approach to contributing to the art of carillon playing, Carlos is developing a project through the GCNA's  Ronald Barnes Memorial Fund. His project consists of researching dances archived in his homeland of Puerto Rico to create carillon arrangements, thus enhancing the carillon repertoire with a more diverse cultural heritage.

Project Description: Puerto Rican Dances are the island’s most notable musical heritage from the Romantic period. These dances are losing musical popularity in many venues due to the influence of contemporary pop culture music. In striving to revive the musical heritage of these dances, I hope to develop arrangements and transcriptions of Puerto Rican Dances for the carillon. This study will expand the musical repertoire for the carillon with more ethnically diverse music. As part of my study, I plan to work with the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (Puerto Rican Institute of Culture) in a series of trips to Puerto Rico to have access to the national historic archives to retrieve as many dances as possible composed for both piano and guitar. The goal is to have access to as many compositions that could be feasible to arrange and transcribe for the carillon and to better understand the musical structure of this genre.


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