Isabel Aretz

Isabel Aretz (* April 14, 1909; † 1 June 2005 in San Isidro ( Buenos Aires ) ) was an Argentine ethnomusicologist, folklorist and composer.

Aretz studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música de Buenos Aires piano with Rafael González as well as harmony, counterpoint and composition with Athos Palma and completed her musical education with Heitor Villa -Lobos in Brazil. At the Museo de Ciencias in Buenos Aires, she studied anthropology at José Imbelloni and ethnography with Enrique Palavencino and then became assistant and student of the musicologist Carlos Vega.

Since 1940, they undertook a series of research trips through Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia and Peru. In 1947 she went to Venezuela to organize the music section of the company founded by Juan de Investigaciones Liscano Servicio Folklóricas. She made here with Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera travels to different regions of Venezuela.

In the 1960s, was Aretz employee of the Estudio de fonologia, the first studio of electronic Musiik in Venezuela. In 1968 she was awarded the Doctorate of Music ( summa cum laude) from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Argentina. It was 1971, founding director of the Instituto de Interamericano Etnomusicología y Folklore ( INIDEF ), where she taught until 1982. In addition, she worked as a professor of ethnomusicology at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and taught in Mexico and Colombia. From 1990 to 1995 she was president of the Fundación de Etnomusicología y Folklore ( FUNDEF ). In 1997 she returned to Argentina.

Aretz authored more than twenty-five books and monographs on Latin American folk music. They also composed orchestral and choral works, electro-acoustic and piano pieces.

Compositions

  • Punenas (1937 )
  • Yekuana for eight voices, orchestra, speaker and tape ( 1974)
  • Kwaltaya, ethno drama for tape and voice (1980 )
  • Gritos en la Ciudad for orchestra and tape ( 1992)
  • Hombre al Cosmos for piano and tape ( 1993)
  • Ethnologist
  • Musicologist
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • University teachers ( Universidad Central de Venezuela)
  • Argentine composer
  • Born in 1909
  • Died in 2005
  • Woman
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