Jose Luis Gomez Espinal
Dr. B Salwen
American Music 117-002
11/01/2017
Evolution of Corridos
Corrido’s have been in Latinos culture for many generations and heard worldwide. Corrido’s can be heard at parties, clubs, cantinas, restaurants, concerts, and many more places. It’s a beautiful piece of music that could be funny, sad, romantic, about a person, or a place. Where do corrido’s originated from? What is a corrido’s and how did end up with American culture? Mi Carro Ford is a corrido that will be describe with musical terms?
Corrido’s travel back to the Old World when people from those continents started traveling to the New World “America”. This group of people called the conquistadores came from Spain. “The Spanish folk music was brought …show more content…
How did the ballads turn into a corrido and ended in American culture?
Many Spaniard sang a ballad of their usual common day. But these ballads were going to change into a corrido a few year later when the Mexico people decided they wanted their independence from Spanish rule. Many people began singing ballads about what had happened during the war. At first, they sang orally, as time pass they added a guitar. This are some events that led to increasing of corrido’s development: “Texas Revolution, Mexican-American War, Border War by Pancho Villa, Zapatista Uprising and much more. All these wars, conflicts, heroic events; let to Mexican people turning ballads songs to corrido’s, also playing with a guitar and accordion” (Wald Elijah). “It’s said that Hispanic music is the oldest nonindigenous music in the United States” (Bruno,104). Even that Mexico and the United States are both separated by a border, the United States still have corrido’s in their culture. Most of the southern and eastern parts of the United States have American-Latinos. Even though they are born as an American citizen they still listen to corrido’s. Many American-Latinos were soon tempted to compose corrido’s. “The first corrido song completed …show more content…
The composer is Leo Brower. The song is played by Rene Vazquez Lopez with El Grupo Los Morales in 1992. In this song this person is making fun of his old model T Ford and listing the broken parts of the car: the fender, top, radiator, transmission, battery, and the worn-out tires” (Bruno, 106). Listing to the song several times to identify the timbre that are playing, and they are using two guitars, an accordion, a flute or clarinet, and a two-male singer. The Dynamic of the song is Mezzo. The Tempo is allegro, but the accordion is playing at presto beat. The pitch is high. The notes duration of the melody play are short. The texture of the song is homophonic. The form of the song is strophic. Now the melody of the song from the beginning, we have A form from 1-16 second of the song, between 12-18 second of the song you can hear the third instrument playing, either the clarinet or flute. Then, from second 19-43 is a B form, from second 44-55 is C form, and from second 55 to minute 1:08 D from. Then the melody comes back to A at minute 1:09-1:30. From minute 1:30-1:54 is B. Then, from minute 1:55-2:09 C, and from minute 2:13 to the end, the D form. Frank Staplin translated the lyrics to English: now let’s beginning from second 19-38; he talks about his banged-up car he is driving; “one who has not long been striving, can’t begin to make it run. But when I’m behind the wheel oh, like a bird he makes it feel” (Vazquez
Dr. B Salwen
American Music 117-002
11/01/2017
Evolution of Corridos
Corrido’s have been in Latinos culture for many generations and heard worldwide. Corrido’s can be heard at parties, clubs, cantinas, restaurants, concerts, and many more places. It’s a beautiful piece of music that could be funny, sad, romantic, about a person, or a place. Where do corrido’s originated from? What is a corrido’s and how did end up with American culture? Mi Carro Ford is a corrido that will be describe with musical terms?
Corrido’s travel back to the Old World when people from those continents started traveling to the New World “America”. This group of people called the conquistadores came from Spain. “The Spanish folk music was brought …show more content…
How did the ballads turn into a corrido and ended in American culture?
Many Spaniard sang a ballad of their usual common day. But these ballads were going to change into a corrido a few year later when the Mexico people decided they wanted their independence from Spanish rule. Many people began singing ballads about what had happened during the war. At first, they sang orally, as time pass they added a guitar. This are some events that led to increasing of corrido’s development: “Texas Revolution, Mexican-American War, Border War by Pancho Villa, Zapatista Uprising and much more. All these wars, conflicts, heroic events; let to Mexican people turning ballads songs to corrido’s, also playing with a guitar and accordion” (Wald Elijah). “It’s said that Hispanic music is the oldest nonindigenous music in the United States” (Bruno,104). Even that Mexico and the United States are both separated by a border, the United States still have corrido’s in their culture. Most of the southern and eastern parts of the United States have American-Latinos. Even though they are born as an American citizen they still listen to corrido’s. Many American-Latinos were soon tempted to compose corrido’s. “The first corrido song completed …show more content…
The composer is Leo Brower. The song is played by Rene Vazquez Lopez with El Grupo Los Morales in 1992. In this song this person is making fun of his old model T Ford and listing the broken parts of the car: the fender, top, radiator, transmission, battery, and the worn-out tires” (Bruno, 106). Listing to the song several times to identify the timbre that are playing, and they are using two guitars, an accordion, a flute or clarinet, and a two-male singer. The Dynamic of the song is Mezzo. The Tempo is allegro, but the accordion is playing at presto beat. The pitch is high. The notes duration of the melody play are short. The texture of the song is homophonic. The form of the song is strophic. Now the melody of the song from the beginning, we have A form from 1-16 second of the song, between 12-18 second of the song you can hear the third instrument playing, either the clarinet or flute. Then, from second 19-43 is a B form, from second 44-55 is C form, and from second 55 to minute 1:08 D from. Then the melody comes back to A at minute 1:09-1:30. From minute 1:30-1:54 is B. Then, from minute 1:55-2:09 C, and from minute 2:13 to the end, the D form. Frank Staplin translated the lyrics to English: now let’s beginning from second 19-38; he talks about his banged-up car he is driving; “one who has not long been striving, can’t begin to make it run. But when I’m behind the wheel oh, like a bird he makes it feel” (Vazquez