Thomas Altmann
Cantos Lucumí A Los Orishas
Import
Book
(Oché TA0001),
Released 1998;
Editor's Pick:
This fine, large and heavy, import from Germany is an immense scholarly work and is, by far, the finest collection of transcriptions of the complete (275 songs) Cantos Lucumí, the religious songs of Santeria that we have seen. 306 pages. In English. Highly recommended. (BP, 2000-09-07)
Description:
Cantos Lucumí - a Santeria Songbook (in English), presents 275 Afro-Cuban chants ot ancient Yoruba origin that are traditionally performed in a ceremonial context with percussion only (güiro, bembé, batá), along with dance. The vocal part is shared between a soloist (akpwón) and a responding chorus. The songs are transcribed and notated in combined systems that show the proper relation of the melodic phrase to the clave-pattern.
I hope that this book will be a useful working aid for musicians, especially drummers and singers in the ceremonial folklore scene, and that the included material will be treated with respect for the religion of the Orichá and human sprituality.
-- Thomas Altmann
Contents:
Cantos Lucumí, a Santeria Songbook (Preface)
The Emergence of this Work
The Material
Musical Features
Words and Translations: The Meanings of the Songs
Pronounciation
Selection of the Songs
Sources
The Relgion: conditio sine qua non?
Liturgical Order
Song Form Structure
Cantos a Los Orishas (275 songs)
Appendix
The Orichas
Feast Daysof the Orichas / Syncretized Catholic Saints
TheOrichas and the Days of the Week
Alternative Names and Different Aspects of the Orichas
The Instruments of the musica lucumí
The Rhythms of the batá
Approximate Tempo Indications of the toques batá
The Clave
Glossary
Notes to the Songs
Song titles include:
Cantos a Eleggia (30 songs)
Cantos a Ogún (16 songs)
Cantos a Ochosi (7 songs)
Canto a Obaloke (Oke)
Cantos a Oricha Oko (3 songs)
Cantos a Inle (5 songs)
Cantos a Babalú Ayé (11 songs)
Cantos a Osain (11 songs)
Cantos a Obatalá (22 songs)
Canto a Dada
Canto a Oggué
Cantos a Aggayú (7 songs)
Cantos a Ibeyí (3 songs)
Cantos a Changó (36 songs)
Cantos a Obba (5 songs)
Cantos a Yeguá (5 songs)
Cantos a Oyá (28 songs)
Cantos a Yemayá (30 songs)
Cantos a Ochún (39 songs)
Cantos a Orunmila (Orunla) (6 songs)
Cantos a Eleggua / Echú - cierre - (6 songs)
Canto a Olokun del cierre
Category: Folkloric
=> Rumba And/Or Santeria/Lucumi
=> Cuba
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