Preludio Tristano Essay

The first concert I attended was the performance of Hector Aguilar and Elvis Josue Bendaña that was provided in class. Since it was in-class, the audience was a classroom of students , there for the academic purpose of learning about a different culture by listening to music. The performers themselves were of latino/hispanic origin wearing almost casual clothing but with a button up shirt. The four pieces that caught my interest the most were Preludio Tristano by Màximo Diego Pujol, Danza Brasileira by Jorge Morel, Asturias by Isaac Albèniz, and El Garañon which is a traditional Nicaraguan folk song. These four pieces have different styles that they are played with most likely connected to the different exposures of music that the artist of the pieces have experienced in their life.
Pujol’s piece Preludio Tristano has a tango style to the piece.The song has mostly soft dynamics throughout the entire piece with a slow tempo. During the slow tempo, the song has a monophonic texture with some soft accents. One particular part of the song the song speeds up the tempo and increases dynamics, but nothing extreme. At this time, the texture is changed to biophonic with the low string note providing a steady beat. Pujol was striving to fuse traditional Argentine Tango into the piece. This part of the song can be connected to the
Unlike the previous two pieces, the accents to this piece were at the beginning at the measures, like many common symphonies and modern music. That is why throughout the whole piece, the song sounded familiar to an extent, almost like a beethoven symphony that I played in my full orchestra. Since this was originally a piece that was played on the piano, that was where the similarity derived from. This piece helped change the mood of the whole performance since it brought an aspect of symphonies in contrast to the jazz and tango played by the previous