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Late Twentieth Century Music in El Salvador.
The composers born during the 1950s believe that composition should be more universal in nature and that the nationalism developed during the first part of the twentieth century helped to globalize the music of El Salvador and the rest of Latin America. This generation consists of a number of composers, such as Angel Duarte (1952-) and Luis Díaz Herodier (1951-), who studied outside of El Salvador but are currently engaged in significant activities within that country. The music of both composers is best described as eclectic. Herodiers’s 2008 work, “El Mozote,” for example, which is the first opera composed in El Salvador, uses several Salvadorian folk tunes but presented in a contemporary style. Although the style of Juan Carlos Mendizábal (1968-) could best be described as neo classic, the composers born during the 1970s have increasingly turned towards the integration of electronic resources into their music. For example, Francisco Huguet’s 2004 work, “Alta Hora de la Noche,” for soprano, electronics in real time and fixed media, is based on fragments from three poems by Roque Dalton. Born in 1973, Arturo Corrales has re interpreted the avant garde tendencies of the 1960s and 1970s while at the same time incorporating nationalist elements. He has composed imaginative and effective music in which percussion plays a central role.
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For more information about the music of this country, including links to conservatories, university music departments and other institutes and organizations, please see our country resource page for El Salvador.
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