Análisis del repertorio de la banda de pueblo “Alfonso Carrión Heredia” de la parroquia Baños con énfasis en los géneros musicales ecuatorianos y populares

Abstract

The present work arises from the need to know more about the traditional music groups in the city of Cuenca, especially in the parish Baths, with this purpose we have taken into consideration the town bands, musical groups that are protagonists throughout festivity of a popular, religious, social nature, etc. For our investigation the object of study will be the band Alfonso Carrión Heredia, a musical group that has forged an important space within the city of Cuenca and outside it. The aspects that will be addressed in the work focus on the evolutionary historical part of the group and the repertoire that they interpret. We will address a process of formal and instrumental analysis of seven musical themes of the band's repertoire, ranging from the most prominent Ecuadorian musical genres in traditional festivals, to popular musical genres that currently have a great reception by the public and the media. Finally, through the present investigation it is tried to rescue the music of this traditional group, providing written material of its repertoire.