The conductor and composer Antonio Estévez was born on January 1st, 1916, in Calabozo, Guárico, Venezuela. He lived in Caracas until the age of 72, and passed on November 26th, 1988. Mr. Estévez began his musical studies playing for the Bond of Calabozoin Caracas and continued in Dungeon, before “returning to Calabozo, Guárico in 1925.” In the following year, 1926, Estévez “joined the town band as a flugelhorn performer,” and in 1930 retuned to Caracas where he continued his musical education under the direction of Miguel Gallo at the School of Music and Declamation.
Antonio joined the Caracas Martial Band “under the direction of Pedro Elias Gutierrez” in 1932, and in 1934 “joined the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra as a second oboe,” studying composition under Vicente Emilio Sojo. In 1938, Estévez began work on his first choral piece, Rocio y El Jazminero Estrellado, and graduated from the School of music and Declamation in 1942 “with degrees in oboe performance and composition (1944).” He married Flor Roffe in 1942 and a year later founded the University Chorus of the Central University of Venezuela.
He was awarded a grant from the Ministry of Education to continue his studies abroad. He studied composition and orchestral conducting at Columbia University in the United States. In 1949, Estevez was awarded the National Prize for music, and after completing his studies abroad he returned home to begin work on his “Concerto for Orchestra and his Cantata Criolla,” finishing in 1954. Three years later he was awarded the Premio Anual de Sinfonicas, (a national prize of high distinction in symphonic music).
Estévez then traveled to London in 1961, and then to Paris in 1963 to continue the development of his musical language while working at the Office de Radio-Television Francaise under Pierre Schaeffer. While in Paris Antonio’s friendship with an artist named Jesus Rafael Soto influenced him to investigate electronic music, most notably Cromovibrafonía, which was “a work of sound atmosphere for an exhibition of Soto in Montreal in 1967.” After returning to Venezuela in 1971 through the support of the Simon Bolivar Center, Estévez founded the Instituto de Fonologia Musical, serving as its director until 1979. With the help of Jesus Soto, Estevez “produced a work of multiple Cromovibrafonía” for the Museum of Modern Art, Ciudad Bolivar in 1972, and in 1987 received the National Music Award and an honorary doctorate from the University of Los Andes.
Discography:
A través del discreto clarooscuro
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Francisco Lazo Martí
Type of Choir: Ma
Voices and Range: T, [tt][bbbb]
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: G major
Initial Meter: 3/2 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Muy lento = 58
Difficulty: M
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 3’00’’
Other Information: Nationalistic madrigal
Date of Composition: 1961
Date of Publication: 1984
Publisher: Ediciones del Congreso de la República
Recording: Not available
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Al Nacimiento de Cristo Nuestro Señor
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Don Luis de Góngora .
Type of Choir: Mx and Tr (children’s choir)
Voices and Range: C: [sss]
Mx: AT, [ss][aa][tt][bb]
Children:
Instrumentation: rattle, bells, tri, Chinese carillon
Initial Key: D minor
Initial Meter: 6/8 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Andante lento = 76 (after a chant introduction)
Difficulty: M
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 6’30’’
Other Information: Nationalistic madrigal. Initial section is chant-like.
Date of Composition: 1976
Date of Publication: 1984
Publisher: Ediciones del Congreso de la República
Recording: Not available
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Ave Maria
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text from the traditional Catholic prayer
Type of Choir: Tr
Voices and Range: [ss][ss][aa]
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: F major
183
Initial Meter: 4/4 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Andante lento
Difficulty: E
Language: Latin
Approximate Duration: 3’00’’
Other Information: Motet
Date of Composition: No date
Date of Publication: 1990
Publisher: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Recording: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Canción de la molinera
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Alejandro Casona
Type of Choir: Mx
Voices and Range: sa[tt][bb]
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: D major
Initial Meter: 3/4
Initial Tempo or Affect: Con alegría = 126
Difficulty: H
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 2’45’’
Other Information: Nationalistic madrigal
Date of Composition: 1942
Date of Publication: 1984 and 2005
Publisher: Ediciones del Congreso de la República
Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo.
Recording: Canciones y madrigales de la Escuela de Santa Capilla.
Coro de la UDO Anzoátegui, Coro Polifónico
Rafael Suárez, and Orfeón Universitario de la
UCV, dir. Rafael Silveira, María Colón de
Cabrera, and César Alejandro Carrillo. Fundación
184
Vicente Emilio Sojo. FD1582005408. CD. 2005.
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Arteaga, Efraín, ed. La Escuela de Santa Capilla. Caracas:
Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo, 2005.
Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Cantata criolla, Florentino el que cantó con el Diablo
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Alberto Arvelo Torrealba: "Florentino, el que
cantó con el Diablo."
Type of Choir: Mx
Voices and Range: TB, [sss][aaa][ttt][bbb]
Instrumentation: *2*2*2*2—4331—marac, fuete, tam-tam, 2piatti, 2tri,
3templeblks (D, E, A), tmp, xyl, cel, 2campanelli, bd,
tamburo, pf, 2hp, str
Initial Key: E minor
Initial Meter: 4/4 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Lento e cadencioso = 76
Difficulty: M
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 40’00’’
Other Information: Nationalism
Date of Composition: 1954
Date of Publication: 1987
Publisher: Ediciones del Congreso de la República
Recording: La Cantata Criolla / Choros No. 10. Simón Bolívar
Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, dir. Eduardo
Mata. Dorian. DIS-80101. CD. 1992.
Additional Remarks: Winner of the Vicente Emilio Sojo award in 1954.
Source: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Despertar
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Luis Barrios Cruz
Type of Choir: Ma
Voices and Range: t[bb][bb]
185
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: A major
Initial Meter: 3/2 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Lento e calmo = 60
Difficulty: M
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 2’15’’
Other Information: Nationalistic madrigal.
Date of Composition: 1938
Date of Publication: 1984, 1990, and 2005
Publisher: Arteaga, Efraín, ed. La Escuela de Santa Capilla. Caracas:
Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo, 2005.
Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana I. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Recording: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana I. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Arteaga, Efraín, ed. La Escuela de Santa Capilla. Caracas:
Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo, 2005.
Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana I. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Fresas maduritas
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Julio Morales Lara
Type of Choir: U
Voices and Range: u
Instrumentation: pf
Initial Key: F major
Initial Meter: 3/4
Initial Tempo or Affect: Allegretto gracioso
Difficulty: E
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 3’30’’
Other Information: Venezuelan song
Date of Composition: 1938
Date of Publication: 1990
Publisher: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Recording: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Peñín, J. and Walter Guido, eds. Enciclopedia de la
Música en Venezuela. Caracas: Fundación
Bigott, 1998. s.v. “Estévez Aponte, Antonio.”
La sombra salió del monte
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Luis Barrios Cruz
Type of Choir: Ma
Voices and Range: [tt]b[bb]
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: A minor
Initial Meter: 3/2 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Lento e cadencioso = 66
Difficulty: M
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 3’30’’
Other Information: Nationalistic madrigal
Date of Composition: 1961
187
Date of Publication: 1984 and 1990
Publisher: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana I. Caracas: Fundación de los Trabajadores de
Lagoven, 1990.
Recording: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana I. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana I. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Los gallos
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Fernando Paz Castillo
Type of Choir: U
Voices and Range: u
Instrumentation: pf
Initial Key: A minor
Initial Meter: 3/2 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Calmo
Difficulty: E
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 1’30’’
Other Information: Venezuelan song
Date of Composition: 1938
Date of Publication: 1990
Publisher: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Recording: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Additional Remarks: None
188
Source: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Peñín, J. and Walter Guido, eds. Enciclopedia de la
Música en Venezuela. Caracas: Fundación
Bigott, 1998. s.v. “Estévez Aponte, Antonio.”
Mata del ánima sola
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Alberto Arvelo Torrealba
Type of Choir: Mx
Voices and Range: T, sa[tt][bb]
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: A minor
Initial Meter: 3/4 and 6/8 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Movido = 112 (after an introduction marked: un poco
ad libitum)
Difficulty: M
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 3’40’’
Other Information: Nationalistic madrigal
Date of Composition: 1961
Date of Publication: 1984
Publisher: Ediciones del Congreso de la República
Recording: Música de Latinoamérica. Produced by María Guinand.
Schola Cantorum de Caracas and Earthsongs. CD.
1998.
Schola Cantorum de Caracas. Música coral
latinoamericana s. XX.. Schola Cantorum de
Caracas, dir. Alberto Grau. Fundación Schola
Cantorum de Caracas. FD17297296. CD. 1997.
Schola Cantorum de Caracas. Música Venezolana y
Latinoamericana. Antología 30 años, Schola
Cantorum de Caracas, dir. Alberto Grau,
Fundación Schola Cantorum de Caracas.
FD17297301. CD. 1997.
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
189
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Tilingo, tilingo
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Popular verses
Type of Choir: Tr
Voices and Range: ssa
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: F major
Initial Meter: 3/4
Initial Tempo or Affect: Allegretto
Difficulty: E
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 1’30’’
Other Information: Venezuelan song
Date of Composition: No date
Date of Publication: 1990
Publisher: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Recording: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Tres canciones corales: I. Arrunango
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Héctor G. Villalobos
Type of Choir: Mx
Voices and Range: S, [sss][aa][tt][bb]
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: D dorian
Initial Meter: 6/8 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Teneramente calmo = 72
190
Difficulty: M
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 2’00’’
Other Information: Nationalistic madrigal
Date of Composition: 1954
Date of Publication: 1984
Publisher: Ediciones del Congreso de la República
Recording: Not available
Additional Remarks: Winner of the Premio Oficial de Música Vocal [Official
Award for Vocal Music] in 1954.
Source: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Tres canciones corales: II. Tonada llanera
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Alberto Arvelo Torrealba
Type of Choir: Mx
Voices and Range: Whistle, AT, sat[bb]
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: C minor
Initial Meter: 3/8 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Muy lento = 63 (after an introduction marked: Un poco
ad libitum)
Difficulty: M
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 2’30’’
Other Information: Nationalistic madrigal
Date of Composition: 1954
Date of Publication: 1984
Publisher: Ediciones del Congreso de la República
Recording: Not available
Additional Remarks: Winner of the Premio Oficial de Música Vocal [Official
Award for Vocal Music] in 1954.
Source: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
191
Tres canciones corales: III. Habladurías
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Manuel Rodríguez Cárdenas
Type of Choir: Mx
Voices and Range: T, [ss][aa][tt][bbb]
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: F major
Initial Meter: 5/8 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Con alegría jacarandosa = 315
Difficulty: H
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 4’30’’
Other Information: Nationalism. Joropo
Date of Composition: 1954
Date of Publication: 1984
Publisher: Ediciones del Congreso de la República
Recording: Not available
Additional Remarks: Winner of the Premio Oficial de Música Vocal [Official
Award for Vocal Music] in 1954.
Source: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Francisco Lazo Martí
Type of Choir: Ma
Voices and Range: T, [tt][bbbb]
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: G major
Initial Meter: 3/2 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Muy lento = 58
Difficulty: M
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 3’00’’
Other Information: Nationalistic madrigal
Date of Composition: 1961
Date of Publication: 1984
Publisher: Ediciones del Congreso de la República
Recording: Not available
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Al Nacimiento de Cristo Nuestro Señor
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Don Luis de Góngora .
Type of Choir: Mx and Tr (children’s choir)
Voices and Range: C: [sss]
Mx: AT, [ss][aa][tt][bb]
Children:
Instrumentation: rattle, bells, tri, Chinese carillon
Initial Key: D minor
Initial Meter: 6/8 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Andante lento = 76 (after a chant introduction)
Difficulty: M
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 6’30’’
Other Information: Nationalistic madrigal. Initial section is chant-like.
Date of Composition: 1976
Date of Publication: 1984
Publisher: Ediciones del Congreso de la República
Recording: Not available
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Ave Maria
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text from the traditional Catholic prayer
Type of Choir: Tr
Voices and Range: [ss][ss][aa]
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: F major
183
Initial Meter: 4/4 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Andante lento
Difficulty: E
Language: Latin
Approximate Duration: 3’00’’
Other Information: Motet
Date of Composition: No date
Date of Publication: 1990
Publisher: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Recording: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Canción de la molinera
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Alejandro Casona
Type of Choir: Mx
Voices and Range: sa[tt][bb]
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: D major
Initial Meter: 3/4
Initial Tempo or Affect: Con alegría = 126
Difficulty: H
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 2’45’’
Other Information: Nationalistic madrigal
Date of Composition: 1942
Date of Publication: 1984 and 2005
Publisher: Ediciones del Congreso de la República
Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo.
Recording: Canciones y madrigales de la Escuela de Santa Capilla.
Coro de la UDO Anzoátegui, Coro Polifónico
Rafael Suárez, and Orfeón Universitario de la
UCV, dir. Rafael Silveira, María Colón de
Cabrera, and César Alejandro Carrillo. Fundación
184
Vicente Emilio Sojo. FD1582005408. CD. 2005.
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Arteaga, Efraín, ed. La Escuela de Santa Capilla. Caracas:
Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo, 2005.
Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Cantata criolla, Florentino el que cantó con el Diablo
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Alberto Arvelo Torrealba: "Florentino, el que
cantó con el Diablo."
Type of Choir: Mx
Voices and Range: TB, [sss][aaa][ttt][bbb]
Instrumentation: *2*2*2*2—4331—marac, fuete, tam-tam, 2piatti, 2tri,
3templeblks (D, E, A), tmp, xyl, cel, 2campanelli, bd,
tamburo, pf, 2hp, str
Initial Key: E minor
Initial Meter: 4/4 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Lento e cadencioso = 76
Difficulty: M
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 40’00’’
Other Information: Nationalism
Date of Composition: 1954
Date of Publication: 1987
Publisher: Ediciones del Congreso de la República
Recording: La Cantata Criolla / Choros No. 10. Simón Bolívar
Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, dir. Eduardo
Mata. Dorian. DIS-80101. CD. 1992.
Additional Remarks: Winner of the Vicente Emilio Sojo award in 1954.
Source: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Despertar
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Luis Barrios Cruz
Type of Choir: Ma
Voices and Range: t[bb][bb]
185
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: A major
Initial Meter: 3/2 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Lento e calmo = 60
Difficulty: M
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 2’15’’
Other Information: Nationalistic madrigal.
Date of Composition: 1938
Date of Publication: 1984, 1990, and 2005
Publisher: Arteaga, Efraín, ed. La Escuela de Santa Capilla. Caracas:
Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo, 2005.
Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana I. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Recording: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana I. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Arteaga, Efraín, ed. La Escuela de Santa Capilla. Caracas:
Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo, 2005.
Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana I. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Fresas maduritas
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Julio Morales Lara
Type of Choir: U
Voices and Range: u
Instrumentation: pf
Initial Key: F major
Initial Meter: 3/4
Initial Tempo or Affect: Allegretto gracioso
Difficulty: E
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 3’30’’
Other Information: Venezuelan song
Date of Composition: 1938
Date of Publication: 1990
Publisher: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Recording: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Peñín, J. and Walter Guido, eds. Enciclopedia de la
Música en Venezuela. Caracas: Fundación
Bigott, 1998. s.v. “Estévez Aponte, Antonio.”
La sombra salió del monte
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Luis Barrios Cruz
Type of Choir: Ma
Voices and Range: [tt]b[bb]
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: A minor
Initial Meter: 3/2 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Lento e cadencioso = 66
Difficulty: M
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 3’30’’
Other Information: Nationalistic madrigal
Date of Composition: 1961
187
Date of Publication: 1984 and 1990
Publisher: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana I. Caracas: Fundación de los Trabajadores de
Lagoven, 1990.
Recording: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana I. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana I. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Los gallos
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Fernando Paz Castillo
Type of Choir: U
Voices and Range: u
Instrumentation: pf
Initial Key: A minor
Initial Meter: 3/2 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Calmo
Difficulty: E
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 1’30’’
Other Information: Venezuelan song
Date of Composition: 1938
Date of Publication: 1990
Publisher: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Recording: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Additional Remarks: None
188
Source: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Peñín, J. and Walter Guido, eds. Enciclopedia de la
Música en Venezuela. Caracas: Fundación
Bigott, 1998. s.v. “Estévez Aponte, Antonio.”
Mata del ánima sola
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Alberto Arvelo Torrealba
Type of Choir: Mx
Voices and Range: T, sa[tt][bb]
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: A minor
Initial Meter: 3/4 and 6/8 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Movido = 112 (after an introduction marked: un poco
ad libitum)
Difficulty: M
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 3’40’’
Other Information: Nationalistic madrigal
Date of Composition: 1961
Date of Publication: 1984
Publisher: Ediciones del Congreso de la República
Recording: Música de Latinoamérica. Produced by María Guinand.
Schola Cantorum de Caracas and Earthsongs. CD.
1998.
Schola Cantorum de Caracas. Música coral
latinoamericana s. XX.. Schola Cantorum de
Caracas, dir. Alberto Grau. Fundación Schola
Cantorum de Caracas. FD17297296. CD. 1997.
Schola Cantorum de Caracas. Música Venezolana y
Latinoamericana. Antología 30 años, Schola
Cantorum de Caracas, dir. Alberto Grau,
Fundación Schola Cantorum de Caracas.
FD17297301. CD. 1997.
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
189
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Tilingo, tilingo
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Popular verses
Type of Choir: Tr
Voices and Range: ssa
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: F major
Initial Meter: 3/4
Initial Tempo or Affect: Allegretto
Difficulty: E
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 1’30’’
Other Information: Venezuelan song
Date of Composition: No date
Date of Publication: 1990
Publisher: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Recording: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Additional Remarks: None
Source: Rodriguez, José Luis, ed. Antología de la Música Coral
Venezolana III. Caracas: Fundación de los
Trabajadores de Lagoven, 1990.
Tres canciones corales: I. Arrunango
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Héctor G. Villalobos
Type of Choir: Mx
Voices and Range: S, [sss][aa][tt][bb]
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: D dorian
Initial Meter: 6/8 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Teneramente calmo = 72
190
Difficulty: M
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 2’00’’
Other Information: Nationalistic madrigal
Date of Composition: 1954
Date of Publication: 1984
Publisher: Ediciones del Congreso de la República
Recording: Not available
Additional Remarks: Winner of the Premio Oficial de Música Vocal [Official
Award for Vocal Music] in 1954.
Source: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Tres canciones corales: II. Tonada llanera
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Alberto Arvelo Torrealba
Type of Choir: Mx
Voices and Range: Whistle, AT, sat[bb]
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: C minor
Initial Meter: 3/8 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Muy lento = 63 (after an introduction marked: Un poco
ad libitum)
Difficulty: M
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 2’30’’
Other Information: Nationalistic madrigal
Date of Composition: 1954
Date of Publication: 1984
Publisher: Ediciones del Congreso de la República
Recording: Not available
Additional Remarks: Winner of the Premio Oficial de Música Vocal [Official
Award for Vocal Music] in 1954.
Source: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
191
Tres canciones corales: III. Habladurías
Arrangement / Composition: Composition
Original Music and Text: Text by Manuel Rodríguez Cárdenas
Type of Choir: Mx
Voices and Range: T, [ss][aa][tt][bbb]
Instrumentation: A cappella
Initial Key: F major
Initial Meter: 5/8 *
Initial Tempo or Affect: Con alegría jacarandosa = 315
Difficulty: H
Language: Spanish
Approximate Duration: 4’30’’
Other Information: Nationalism. Joropo
Date of Composition: 1954
Date of Publication: 1984
Publisher: Ediciones del Congreso de la República
Recording: Not available
Additional Remarks: Winner of the Premio Oficial de Música Vocal [Official
Award for Vocal Music] in 1954.
Source: Estévez, Antonio. Canciones Corales. Caracas: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones y Estudios
Musicales “Vicente Emilio Sojo”, 1984.
Works Cited:
"Antonio Estevez – Venezuela Tuya"
on the Web 3 Mar. 2012< http://www.venezuelatuya.com/biografias/antonio_estevez.htm>.
Grases, Cristian. "Nine Venezuelan Composers and a Catalogue of their Choral Works" University of Miami
on the Web 3 Mar. 2012<http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/215/.
"Antonio Estevez – Venezuela Tuya"
on the Web 3 Mar. 2012< http://www.venezuelatuya.com/biografias/antonio_estevez.htm>.
Grases, Cristian. "Nine Venezuelan Composers and a Catalogue of their Choral Works" University of Miami
on the Web 3 Mar. 2012<http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/215/.
Images:
http://www.calabozodigital.com/antonio_estevez.html
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