Journal of Music Research
Volume 1: March 2015
James E. Cunningham, Editor

“RECREATING BAMBUCO’S EXPRESSION IN THE CHORAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE SONG “EL REGRESO” BY EFRAÍN OROZCO” – Ivan D. Beltran
This paper takes an analytically practical approach to exploring an age-old debate about the appropriate metric organization of a syncretic European, indigenous, and African-influenced Colombian nationalistic genre known as Bambuco. In this work, the author applies a deep musical analysis, with the purpose of understanding the metric nuances of Bambuco in a choral performative context.

“MISA CUBANA AND THE MISSING CULTURAL CONNECTION” – Cristina Morales
In the current dynamic climate of US-Cuba political relations, this paper presents a timely glimpse into an historic musical work Missa Cubana (Cuban Mass), written in 1996 by Cuban jazz musician and  film composer Jose Maria Vitier, in collaboration with his wife, poet Silvia Rodriguez Rivero. By weaving the impact of the initial “performances” of Missa Cubana, both in- and out-side of the country, with contemporary expatriate attitudes viewpoints in South Florida, the author presents an interesting perspective on the   issues of religious belief versus secular politics in the twenty-first century.

“EXPORTATION OF  CREOLISMUS” – Juan Antonio Pena
By looking at the parallel lives of New Orleans native musicians Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) and Charles Lucien Lambert (1828-1896) this paper explores the idea of “creolismus” as a nineteenth-century exportive musical commodity that was planted in North America, nurtured in Europe, and came into fruition in South America.

“TODAY’S WIND BAND LITERATURE: WHERE DID THE MELODY GO?” – Christopher J. Schletter
This paper is the beginning of a discussion that is centered around how contemporary composers of wind band music have seemingly moved away from melodically-oriented textures towards new mood- and effect-based textures that focus on timbre.