Composers:
1.
Juan Morel
Campos (1857-1896)
Biography
Juan Morel Campos was a prominent
Puerto Rican composer who was strongly influenced by Italian musicians performing
in Puerto Rico. He received national recognition for his danzas (musical genre originating in Ponce), for which he wrote
over 300.
His studies centered on harmony,
counterpoint, composition and piano, and served as the primary baritone player
in a battalion band from San Juan known as the Cazadores de Madrid. His
background in the baritone contributed to the development of Puerto Rican dance
music ensembles in which the clarinet and baritone horns are the prominent
instruments.
Many of his musical pieces are still
widely played throughout Latin America.
His passing in 1896 was due to a stroke occurring during one of his
performances.
Discography (abridged)
Caribbean Rhythms
for Piano (1990)
Published by: Protone
Records from Los Angeles, CA
Medium: CD
Performed by:
Nohema Fernandez, piano.
Pieces:
No me toques!
Si te toco!
Bellos ojos
Una cana al aire
La bulliciosa
Danzas de Morel
Campos: Interpretadas al piano por Sanroma
Published by:
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena
Medium: LP
Pieces
Cielo de encanto
Divina enriqueta
No me olvides
Las dos Marias
Carnival
La bella margot
Fiesta de amigos
El torbellino
La bulliciosa
La graciosa pareja
La julita
La sorpresa
Danzas
puertorriqueñas (195?)
Publisher: Puerto
Rico: Marvela
Medium: LP
Performed by:
Elisa Taverez, piano.
Pieces:
Sin ti jamás
Di que me amas
Candorosa
Ten Piedad
Hermosos
recuerdos: Evangelina Colon canta danzas de Puerto Rico (1996)
Published by: ACI
Records from Brooklyn, N.Y
Edition/Format:
CD
Performed by:
Evangelina Colon, soprano; Jan Jozef Wnek, piano.
Piece: Laura y Georgina
Un Mensaje y
Nuestras Danzas (1981)
Published by: Citibank
from Puerto Rico
Medium: LP
Performed by:
Jesus M. Sanroma; Luis A. Ferre, piano.
Pieces:
Noche deliciosa
La traviesa
Tambien lo dudo
El ciclon
Bibliography
· http://caribbeanartmusicwebquest.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/juan-morel-campos-16-may-1857-12-may-1896/
·
http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/A2093402?q=Juan+Morel+Campos&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
2.
Rafael
Hernandez Marin (1891-1965)
Biography
Rafael Hernandez was a Puerto Rican
composer, bandleader and instrumentalist born into a musically inclined
family. During World War I, Hernandez
contributed to the war effort as a member of the Hellfighter’s Infantry Band of
James Reese Europe.
After the war, Hernandez played a
significant role in establishing the trend for guitar-based trios and quartets
among the Puerto Rican population in New York.
Rafael Hernandez is often regarded as the greatest and most prolific
composer from Puerto Rico, with his most well-known piece being Lamento boricano, adopted as an anthem
for Puerto Ricans. It is believed that
he had written over 2000 musical pieces during his lifetime.
Discography
Trio Avileño,
Vol. 4 (1969)
Published by:
Columbia from Mexico
Medium: Vinyl, LP
Piece(s): Lo Siento Por Ti
Las Mejores Marimbas (1971)
Published
by: Maya from Mexico
Format:
Vinyl, Album, Compilation, LP
Piece(s):
Enamorado De Ti
Mi Delito
List
of Works
Ahora seremos felices
Campanitas de cristal
Capullito de Alhelí
Culpable
El Cumbanchero
Ese soy yo
Perfume de Gardenias
Silencio
Tú no comprendes
Bibliography
3. Manuel
Gregorio Tavảrez (1843-1883)
Biography
Manuel
Gregorio Tavảrez was a composer and music educator born in San Juan, Puerto
Rico. As a child, Tavảrez took piano and
organ lessons prior to travelling to France in 1856 to study with D’Albert and Auber at the Paris Conservatoire. After coming down with an illness while in
Paris that left him partially deaf and slightly paralyzed in one hand, Tavảrez
returned to Puerto Rico where he settled in Ponce.
For the
remainder of his life, Tavảrez dedicated his time to teaching and composing
music. He was in part, responsible, for
the development of several famous composers and musicians such as Morel Campos and Francisco Cortés and the
pianist-composer Gonzalo Núñez.
He founded the Puerto Rican school of composition and pioneered
pianistic danza as salon music,
resulting in approximately 40 pieces.
While all his works centered around the piano, he composed waltzs and
opera fantasies.
Discography/List of Works
·
Contributed to the publishing of two early
collections of Puerto Rican music: Album filharmónico (1863) and El delirio puertorriqueño (1867–1869).
·
His most popular composition, Margarita, composed in 1870, is the
epitome of Tavảrez’s delicate and romantic danza
style.
Vals de Salón, Opus 62.
La Sensitiva
Margarita
Recuerdos de Antaño
Rendencion
Souvener de Puerto Rico
Un Recuerdito
Bibliogrpahy
· http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/A2093518?q=Manuel+Tavarez&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
Timeline*
Timeline*
1492- Puerto Rico “discovered” by Christopher Columbus
1501- Spanish Crown permits slavery in the Americas
1509- Ponce de Leon appointed governor of Puerto Rico
1511- Taino natives attempt to revolt against Spanish colonists
1521- Carib attack Spanish settlements
1843- Manuel Gregorio Tavảrez is born
1857- Juan Morel Campos is born
1863- Tavảrez published Album Filharmonica
1867- Tavảrez published El Delirio Puertorriqueño
1870- Tavảrez published Margarita
1873- Slavery actually ends in Spanish colonies
1882- Juan Morel Campos completes Overtura la Lila
1883- Tavảrez dies
1891- Rafael Hernandez Marin is born
1893- Campos composes symphony Puerto Rico
1896- Campos dies
1898- Puerto Rico taken from Spain by U.S.
1937- Marin composes Lamento borincano and Preciosa
1947- Marin becomes director of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra
1965- Marin dies
