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- ↑ Jane Magrath, Pianist's Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature, page 448. "A tonada is a Spanish word meaning anything sung, played or danced. Rhythmic writing, mild dissonances, at the same approximate level as Turina Miniatures. The works are tonal and frequently use ostinatos containing tonal and modal..."
- ↑ Emily Kay Berquist, The science of empire: Bishop Martinez Companon and the ... page 29, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007. "The liner notes to the Música Temprana recording of Martínez Compañón's musical annotations, Al Uso de Nuestra Tierra, Chants et danses du baroque péruvien, confirms that 'the Tonada del Chimo is the only original music written to a text in the mochica language, a language that had already disappeared by the time of Martínez Compañón'."
- ↑ Raquel Barros y Manuel Dannemann, El romancero chileno, (Ediciones de la Universidad de Chile), 1970.
- ↑ Juan Eduardo Wolf, La Tonada Chilena: The History of a Musical Genre through Performance, 2007. "Employing one of the classic descriptions of a tonada, Barros and Dannemann state that the melody of a tonada is simple and monotonous. They state that the melodies use only small intervals and use this criterion to once again distinguish..."
- ↑ The World and its peoples: Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Falkland Islands, 1966. "OTHER POPULAR AIRS: The Chilean countryside and towns each have their own brand of folk song. In rural areas the lyrical tonada Chilena is particularly popular. A tonada is divided..."
- ↑ Marianne Pickering, Chile: Where the Land Ends, (Benchmark Books) 1996. "A tonada is usually a slow-moving song with a melancholy theme. Thirty years ago, the Nueva Cancion (nu-WEH-vah kan-see-OWN), or 'New Song,' movement was started by Chilean musicians and poets. The writers protested against the..."