THE CUBAN "PUNTO"

Abstract

The Cuban musicologist María Teresa Linares describes in this work the purest peasant music of the beautiful island, music played a long time ago as the basis of her people, from which originated dances which have since disappeared, such as the caringa, the cariaco, the "chicken follow me", the shoemaker, and many others of local character, such as the Cuban "punto", which still prevails in the form of the "décima", sung in improvised form with tonal variations. Music that is a product of the process of transculturation began at the first instance of the encounter among the three cultures.