The Musical Object as an Expressive and Compositional Resource in Intihuatana by Celso Garrido-Lecca
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https://doi.org/10.62230/antec.v10i1.314Keywords:
Musical object, Semiotics, Composition, Celso Garrido-LeccaAbstract
This article analyzes Intihuatana (1967) for string quartet by Celso Garrido-Lecca, with the aim of examining how the musical object functions as an expressive compositional resource in this work. Based on a semiotic approach grounded in the tripartite model, the analysis articulates the neutral level with the inductive and external esthesic levels, understood as tools for examining the perceptual projection of the sonic material. The work is constructed as an abstract musical reinterpretation of the solar clock Intihuatana, in which the musical object organizes the perception of cyclical time, textural density, and the evocation of a soundscape of a mystical character. In this way, the musical object is established as the central axis of the compositional discourse and the expressive meaning of the work.
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