u/soundknight21

I have a question about interpretation of Venezuelan harp music.

My student is learning El Negrito by Lauro, A. For his performance exam. He asked me, which notes are the melody?
I struggled to answer as my interpretation I wasn’t sure of. I thought that the broken chords of harmony sometimes have melody notes that are played forte whist the purely harmonic notes are played mezzo forte. In this sense it is very reliant on the cultural origin of the music where it is played loudly for community dance and that part of its beauty (seems to my ear) is the confusion created between the harmony and melody; it’s like the shimmering light on flowers dancing in the wind.
In the Williams performance attached, the melody is very hard to spot in section A, in section B it is both written and performed much more clearly but at the end of B section Williams plays a clear cadentially harmonised melody that transfers into a broken tonic chord; this makes me think that I am on the right path when suggesting to my student that: “the beauty is found within the confusion of what is melody and what is harmony and, that this is a feature I have heard within traditional Venezuelan harp music as this gives the impression of fractured light bouncing off different petals of tropical flowers.”
I’m hoping somebody with experience in traditional music may answer this for me too…?
As a very side question, do you think Williams’ performance and interpretation of Venezuelan music changed between these early recordings and his album of said music in the 2000s? Not allowing the change of guitar to misinterpret such changes…?

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