Music of Tolima
The Tolima is embedded in the center of the Colombian Andean region, varied by the rich pre-Columbian folklore of the region, which is the main ingredient of its evolution. The music of Tolima includes rhythms to accompany dances, litanies and songs typical of the Amerindians before the discovery of America. In the different regions the natives accompanied their daily work with songs with which they communicated their daily work, they soon accompanied such litanies and songs with the instruments of the work that was done. There are varied percussion and wind instruments in the Andean region of Colombia and these were the matrix on which the music of Tolima evolved. Origin
The current musical forms of this region, without being able to determine their origin, are born from a continuous change in the time realized on musical rhythms typical of the natives with the gradual addition of musical instruments that were not their own and new genres musicals that had no origin in America.
These are the musical genres of this region of Colombia; "Mestizo rhythms" and so the people of this and other departments of the region that share them consider. My name is Mafrona Rhythms and Instruments of Tolima
In the hallway the organology is as follows: in some cases flute, bandola, tiple, guitar, pooch, tambora, and in some cases the holm oak.
The Bambuco and its variants like the Rajaleña or the Sanjuanero are the rhythm that identifies Tolima Grande, which today is known as the department of Huila and Tolima; the instruments for playing a sanjuanero are a flute, tambora, tambourine, mat, guitar, tiple, one hundred feet, chirp and carangano.
The bambuco is derived from the sanjuanero and is interpreted with the same instruments of the sanjuanero; Likewise, the rumba criolla goes against the corridor and the instruments vary according to the area of Tolima being interpreted.
Cane is the only rhythm of the Andean zone that is interpreted exclusively in Tolima, since its creator is from Tolima and the recognized melodies were also composed by the same creator, the instruments that are interpreted in a cane stem from the combination of instruments of the sanjuanero and the rajaleña.
The guabina is a romantic peasant rhythm, within the most recognized guabinas is "you will live my Tolima" and the anthem of the city of Ibaguè "Hurì", although also arise guabinas with very particular titles, such is the example of the guabina "The guerrilla" The whirlwind is a rhythm that belongs to the departments of Tolima, Boyacá, Cundinamarca and the Santanderes, particularly a whirlwind is interpreted with a set of strings like the bandola, tiple and guitar; accompanied by percussive instincts such as donkey's jaw, carrasca or guiro and a pooch.
But there are also dances and rhythms that are preserved from the pre-Columbian era, that is, the rhythms of indigenous culture; The dance of the cucambos of the Valley of San Juan in Tolima, the cane brava to the rhythm of native valz and dances allusive to the caciques that inhabited the valley of the panches, of the famous hill of the pacandè of the natives Natagaimas and the town of San Bonifacio de las Lanzas. Places of musical interest in Tolima
Conservatory of music in Tolima.
Tolima Theater.
General Rojas Pinilla Park.
House of Culture.
Garzon acoustic shell and collazos (Ibaguè)
Plazoleta Dario Echandìa (Ibaguè)
Cacica Dulima (Ibaguè)
Alberto Castilla Conservatory of Tolima Room (Ibaguè)
Acoustic Shell (Fresno)
House of Culture (Cajamarca)
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