“Elements of Soneo Theory: Vocal Improvisation Strategies in Salsa Music” • Irna Priore Music and Culture Lecture Series
Collins Lecture Hall (Music 217) 100 McIver St, Greensboro
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September 22, 2023 -“Elements of Soneo Theory: Vocal Improvisation Strategies in Salsa Music” • Irna Priore Music and Culture Lecture Series
“Elements of Soneo Theory: Vocal Improvisation Strategies in Salsa Music” • Irna Priore Music and Culture Lecture Series
Salsa music’s soneos are improvisatory spaces in which lead singers (soneros) perform impressive feats of vocal pyrotechnics in cyclic alteration with a choral refrain. This paper develops a set of tools for interpreting soneos, inviting analysts to examine the sung stories of salsa music as a multivalent tapestry woven of sound, language, and gesture. Centering venerated soneros like Benny More, Celia Cruz, and Ismael River, Dr. Mitchell explores standard ways of manipulating vocal styles, melodic shapes, rhythmic gestures, and ensemble relationships on the fly during a soneo improvisation. These techniques combine with the cyclic repetition schemes and linear intensification processes scripted by the arrangement, giving rise to unique energetic shapes, which an analyst may then bring into expressive dialogue with the song’s gestural and linguistic media.
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