Follow the accompanying Active Listening guide as you listen to “Ilumán tiyu.” Describe the sound of “Ilumán tiyu.”
What will be an ideal response?
(A) Time Characteristics (rhythm, tempo, metrical rhythm)
• Dominating short-long-short-long-long sanjuán rhythm (motive) used to create melodies of 8-beat sanjuán phrases
• Medium tempo with duple (two-beat) metrical rhythm
(B) Pitch Aspects (melody, harmony)
• Repetitive, unison melodies
• Consonant, harmonies; g-sharp minor/B Major bimodality
(C) Timbre/Instrumentation
• Instrumentation consists of solo violin, notched flutes (kenas), drum, guitars and singers—see photo of ensemble in Worlds of Music.
• A notched flute is an end-blown flute with the player blowing air across a small notch at the end of the flute
(D) Musical Form
• A series of sung verses alternating with instrumental interludes—"if II stands for the "Introduction/Interlude, AI for the "A" phrase played by instruments, AV for the "A" phrase vocalized by the ensemble, and B for "B" phrase, the formal structure of Galo Maigua's composition, "Ilumán tiyu" comes out to be as follows:
II/AI/II/AV/B/AI/II/AV/B/AI/II/AV/B/AI"
(E) Context of the Musical Example
• The recording is from a performance that occurred in the Imbabura village of Ilumán in Ecuador by a well-known Quichua composer-guitarist-singer, Segundo "Galo" Maigua Pillajo, and his ensemble Conjunto Ilumán in October, 1990.
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