Estudios Sencillos Montuno #5

Classical Cuban music

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Montuno is a derived form from the son of Cuba Oriente and Santiago de Cuba. As a traditional form it is used for improvising over a fixed bass line often supplied by the Afro Cuban marímbula. The study is made up of three sections of melodic material and plays on the repeated dissonant effect of a minor second. It is the last of the first volume of pieces composed in 1959 while Brouwer was teaching in New York.

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