EDOSONÍA

Promocional lanzamiento de la revista EDOsonía N° 5

Pablo Guerrero — 2025-03-27

Audiovisual sobre lanzamiento de la revista musical EDOsonía- Quito, 28 marzo, 2025. Villa Celia, Fundación Zaldumbide-Rosales.

Pasillo

Gerardo Guevara — 2025-03-27

Partitura para piano del pasillo ecuatoriano de Gerardo Guevara.

Preliminares EDOsonía N° 5

Pablo Guerrero — 2025-03-10

Portada, créditos, índice, presentación

Homenaje a Gerardo Guevara

Alex Alarcón — 2025-03-26

This article presents the research-creation process behind the work Homenaje a Gerardo Guevara, a piano piece that pays tribute to the Ecuadorian composer Gerardo Guevara (1930-2024). The text combines the author’s creative experience with a formal, melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic analysis grounded in Ecuadorian genres and avant-garde exploration. By adopting a methodology that integrates compositional practice with systematic reflection, the article describes how the employed resources—pentatonic scale, quartal harmony, and metric patterns from Ecuadorian genres such as danzante, yaraví, albazo, and yumbo—merge into a coherent musical discourse. This study contributes to the understanding of Ecuadorian academic music and illustrates the relevance of research-creation as a means to understand, preserve, and update a cultural legacy.

Morenadas de La Merced

Jhony García Coque — 2025-03-26

This field report focuses on a little-known festival: the “Morenadas,” a popular tradition held in La Merced (Pichincha) with expressions that combine music and dance, and it is organized by “companies,” or groups of residents from the town’s neighborhoods.

El centurión:

Javier Andrade — 2025-03-26

This study analyzes in a pioneering way the manuscripts of the unpublished opera El Centurión by Luis H. Salgado to determine its compositional chronology and its possible relationships with its historical context, and clarify the revision of the dramaturgical macrostructure after made by the composer completing the composition. The investigation of these heritage materials takes as a reference previous analyses carried out by the author of this article and his experiences in the execution of the composer’s music theater work. The character of this study is heuristic, since it produces some relevant questions: does Salgado’s work respond to features of his historical context? What structural plan does the composer have at the beginning of the process and how does he review it? This research generates orientations for the poetics of the staging desingn of the work, which constitutes a historical debt of the country’s culture since 1997, the year in which the documents entered public funds.

Los arrullos y la espiritualidad afro-ecuatoriana

Lindberg Valencia — 2025-03-26

It addresses aspects of Afro-Ecuadorian religiosity and syncretism through lullabies, a traditional genre dedicated to divinities.

Conciertos de candelabro:

Juan Carlos Panchi — 2025-03-26

This study explores chamber music concerts within the musical landscape of Quito during the second half of the 20th century, with a particular emphasis on the participation of musicians from the National Symphony Orchestra of Ecuador in these recitals. Through a documentary and periodical review, the research provides an initial approach to understanding Ecuadorian ensembles and repertoire, aiming to comprehend the dynamics of chamber music concerts in this context.

Yachaytantanakuy - Tamya Morán vocal method

Tamya Morán — 2025-03-27

Abstract: For the peoples of Abya Yala, the educational model has been a constant concern, as it has been developed from a Eurocentric approach, far removed from Andean thought, its worldview and its community practices. The Tamya Morán Vocal Method, Yachaytantanakuy – Andean Vocal Method seeks to contribute to an inclusive education that allows the teaching of traditional and indigenous songs within the academy, professionalizing their study. This method also encourages the revitalization of the Kichwa language and the integration of Andean practices with their geography and environment. It is based on rigorous research from pedagogical, anthropological, phonetic and philosophical perspectives, facilitating the understanding of the complex physiological and technical process of singing. It promotes inclusive teaching that welcomes all people interested in learning the art of singing and its diverse sounds.

Del pasillo canción al pasillo fusión:

César Santos — 2025-03-27

In this essay, the pasillo, a representative genre of the mestizo culture in Ecuador, is explored from a historic perspective taking into consideration its evolutionary process up to the present day.

La obra para guitarra del maestro Gerardo Guevara Viteri,

Pedro Barreiro — 2025-03-27

This study delves into the guitar works of Ecuadorian composer Gerardo Guevara, with a particular focus on his ‘Suite mínima’ and ‘Recitativo y danza.’ Through a detailed analysis of Guevara’s technique, harmony, and musical language, this research reveals the originality and complexity of his compositions. By employing innovative techniques such as quarter-tone harmonies, microtonal scales, and extended techniques, combined with reinterpreted traditional Ecuadorian rhythms and melodies, Guevara positions himself as a leading figure in contemporary guitar music. This study contributes to the dissemination and appreciation of Guevara’s work.

Entre cuerdas y saberes

Saray Armas, et al. — 2025-03-27

Since the colonial times, Ecuadorian artisans have modified the European guitar to satisfy the needs of local musicians, in Ecuador, especially in the Cayambe canton these adaptations have led to the creation of the Cayambeña guitar and the galindo tunings.
The value of Galindo tunings outside of Cayambe has increased significantly, boosting the creation of new guitar designs that allow to implement tunings professionally, this is possible thanks to the collaboration of musicians and local luthiers, like Carlos Giraldo. This evolution allows that Galindo’s tunings promote musical innovation, being used in new solo compositions and adaptations to other Ecuadorian genres.
The objective of this article is to determine the changes that have occurred in the guitar and to know the construction of the guitar created for the development of Galindo’s tunings in the professional field. The responses show important changes, particularly in the headstock and the stringing, since the aim is to have 9 strings. Considering the results obtained, it is advisable to continue investigating the different tunings and guitars created to preserve Cayambean culture.

Aplicabilidad de líneas clichés poco comunes dentro de progresiones de música ecuatoriana

Sebastián Acosta — 2025-03-27

This essay raises the question of how variations in cliché lines can generate unpredictable sonorities and how they can be applied in harmonic progressions of Ecuadorian music. The aim of this written work is to develop new melodic-harmonic tools from traditional line clichés, in order to offer less common sounds.

Análisis del lenguaje musical de Fiesta, albazo para piano del compositor Gerardo Guevara

Benito Belduma Cuenca — 2025-03-27

This brief essay addresses the musical language used by one of the most renowned Ecuadorian composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, Gerardo Guevara. Specifically, it analyzes the Albazo Fiesta. In addition to exploring the possibilities and characteristics of the musical language as a compositional tool in his works, the essay also examines other possibilities within pentaphony, bi-pentaphony, such as the transposition of the scale to the same tonic.

Música saraguro en la festividad del kapak raymi

Kelly Cango — 2025-03-27

The celebration of kapac raymi (Christmas) is one of the most significant cultural and community events for the Saraguro people. This essay, which includes documentary and field research, explores aspects of their worldview, their music, and the people participating in this celebration.

Memorial de Universidad y música

El Comercio — 2025-03-27

Press clippings with university and music information.

Eventos CAM 2025

Carrera de Artes Musicales — 2025-03-27

Material gráfco de eventos de la Carrera de Artes Musicales (CAM), 2025.

Images

Carrera de Artes Musicales-FAUCE — 2025-03-27

Imágenes de activiades musicales de la Carrera de Artes Musicales-FAUCE.

Fantasía coral: reseña de concierto

Abigail Ayala — 2025-03-27

Reseña del Concierto de la Orquesta Experimental UCE.

Los hijos del roscanroll: reseña

Pablo Guerrero — 2025-03-27

Reseña del concierto del ensamble Llamarada del Itinerario de Musicología, realizado en el Teatro Variedades de Quito, el 19 de marzo del 2025.

Ponencia musicológica

Christian Salazar — 2025-03-27

El jueves 27 del 2025 la Carrera de Artes Musicales de la Facultad de Artes tuvo la visita de Humberto Sánchez, quien impartió una charla denominada “Métodos y técnicas para la investigación etnomusicológica en la música popular”. Sánchez, oriundo de México, tiene una licenciatura y maestría en etnomusicología en la Universidad Autónoma de México, actualmente se encuentra cursando un doctorado en Frankfurt, Alemania.

Latitud cero

Eduardo Alpala — 2025-03-27

Reseña de la obra musical del estudiante Eduardo Alpala.

Nuevas obras para la exploración y estudio

Gissela Ortega — 2025-03-27

Reseña de publicaciones recibidas.