La melodie vaudoo--voodoo art songs: the genesis of a nationalist music in the Republic of Haiti.

From: Black Music Research Journal | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: Grenier, Robert | Copyright information

In 1945, the Haitian composer Werner Jaegerhuber (1900-1953) published a set of six art songs entitled Complaintes Haitiennes that is without precedent in the literature of art song. They achieve their unique status by virtue of the fact that their texts and musical material are derived entirely from the rituals of Haitian voodoo. Even within the confines of the art music produced by Haitian composers, Jaegerhuber's songs constitute a departure from a musical tradition that typical...

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