Biography
Tembembe Ensamble Continuo is a group that intends to investigate, recreate and disseminate the intrinsic relationship to the music of the Baroque period to the Mexican and Latin American folk music, breaking the barrier unhistorical and imaginary have been filed, offering new possibilities of enjoyment, understanding, interpretation and development of this music today. The Assembly's proposal is to bring together the music of the Spanish baroque guitar with Mexico are today. The group explores the similarities between the tools and practices of each of these musical events recreating on stage in a spectacle of music, song and dance to revive the festive spirit of eighteenth-century New Spanish fandango and current fandango and Son Jarocho.
Ensamble Continuo members began their collaboration as a working group in 1995 developed a musicological research project sponsored by the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In this project attempted to trace the history of the Son Jarocho and focused their efforts on two fronts: on fieldwork in Veracruz, interviewing traditional jarochos musicians on the other, conducted an extensive review of the Hispanic musical sources from the seventeenth and XVIII.
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As a result of this work has been able to establish one of the origins are in Spain in the seventeenth century and has continued the development of this genre in our country to see him become the backbone of traditional Mexican music and a fundamental element Mexican collective identity.
In 1998, with the intention of capturing the sound field theoretical results of the investigation, members of the working group established the Continuum Ensemble, which meets baroque music of the Spanish guitar with the current music and jarana Jarocha and Huasteca of Mexico.
Tembembe is the name of a river running down from creeks near where we rehearse in Cuernavaca, formed by small tributaries like Mexican culture ... like Tembembe work to. Ensamble Continuo refers to the continuity of this music that connects the present with the past shows that are Mexican Baroque is also a son.
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