Juan Carrillo
Julian Carrillo was born in Mexico on January 28th 1875 and passed away on September 9th 1965. He was the last of 19 children. He was a very talented man. Mr. Carrillo was a composer, violinist, conductor, theorist, teacher and inventor. He is known for his theory on microtonal music. He began to sing in his church choir and there his choir conductor encourages Julian to go study at the state Capital and he goes off. He studied violin and composition during his early twenties in Mexico, and then he goes to study in Europe. He returns to Mexico in 1918. “With his return to Mexico, Carrillo assumed many administrative duties, among them a professorship in composition at the National Conservatory, the post of Inspector-General of Music for Mexico City and the founder-directorship of a Beethoven Orchestra and Quartet. From 1913 to 1914 he served as director of the National Conservatory,..” (Oxford) Carrillo’s interest in microtonal music arouse in 1895, “by a class in Mexico on acoustics. He realized that the musical whole tone could be divided not only into two semitones (as it had been for centuries) but also into three third tones, four quarter tones…”(Britannica) He developed, reformed, and made new musical instruments that can produce micro-intervals.
Carrillo performed his first symphony in New York City. He became so successful, that journalist were so impressed and named him, "the herald of a musical Monroe Doctrine". Then in 1916, he “ composed music for D. W. Griffith's film, Intolerance. In New York, Carrillo also wrote the "Thirteenth Sound Theory" which was published later in the second volume of Musical Talks. Carrillo express himself about the “ Thirteenth Sound” (Sonido 13) as, “ the beginning of the end and the starting point of a new musical generation coming to transform everything.”
Mr. Carrillo, composed a substantial amount of microtonal and recorded over 30 compositions. Throughout the remaining 40 years of his life, he went on with experimenting and composing with prominent success.
Discography
· Preludio a Colón (Prelude to Columbus for voice with chamber ensemble, 1922, first performed in 1924)
· Sonata casi fantasia for violin, violoncello and guitar in quarter-, eighth- and sixteenth-tones (1925)
· Concertino in quarter-, eighth- and sixteenth-tones for violin, cello and harp with orchestra (1926, commissioned by Leopold Stokowski who also commissioned the first of two Columbus Symphonies in quarter-, eighth- and sixteenth-tones, both 1926)
· Horizons: Symphonic Poem for violin and cello in quarter- and eighth-tones and harp in sixteenth-tones with orchestra (1947)
· two Concertos for violin and orchestra in quarter-tones (1949 and 1959); and Mass to Pope John XXIII for male voices a capella in quarter-tones (“Mass of Restoration”, 1962).
Bibliography
J. Velasco-Urda: Julián Carrillo: su vida y su obra (Mexico City, 1945)
J. Etienne-Marie: ‘Julián Carrillo’, Nouvelles du Mexique, xliii-xliv (1965–6), 3–10
A. Pike: ‘The Discoveries and Theories of Julián Carrillo: 1875–1965’, Inter-American Music Bulletin, no.55 (1966), 1–10
G.R. Benjamin: ‘Julián Carrillo and “sonido trece”’, YIAMR, iii (1967), 33–68
E.R. Blackaller: La revolución musical de Julián Carrillo, Cuadernos de lectura popular, no.237 (Mexico City, 1969)
J.A. Orrego-Salas, ed.: ‘Microfilm Special Collection–Carrillo’, Music from Latin America Available at Indiana University: Scores, Tapes, and Records (Bloomington, IN, 1971), 168
G.R. Benjamin: ‘Homage to Julián Carrillo’, Carnegie Hall Bulletin: 1974/1975 Season (New York, 20 March 1975), 1–4
J. Ford: ‘Carrillo after 100 years’, Creative Guitar International [Edinburgh, TX], iii/1 (1975), 11–14
J. Ford: ‘Carrillo: Music Pioneer’, Creative Guitar International [Edinburgh, TX], iii/2 (1976), 14–16
J. Ford: ‘Carrillo’s Sonido trece’, Creative Guitar International [Edinburgh, TX], iii, no.3 (1976), 12–14
G.R. Benjamin: ‘Una deuda cultural saldada: la contribución de Julián Carrillo a la música del futuro’, RMC, no.158 (1982), 60–71
D. Carrillo: Julián Carrillo: testimonio de una vida (San Luis Potosí, 1992)
R. Lorenz, ed.: ‘Julián Carrillo’, Scores and Recordings at the Indiana University Latin American Music Center (Bloomington, IN, 1995), 297–99
References
http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/05018?q=julian+carrillo&search=quick&pos=1&_#firsthit
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/97044/Julian-Carrillo
http://www.last.fm/music/Julián+Carrillo
Oxford Music Online
Wikipidea : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julián_Carrillo
Julian Carrillo was born in Mexico on January 28th 1875 and passed away on September 9th 1965. He was the last of 19 children. He was a very talented man. Mr. Carrillo was a composer, violinist, conductor, theorist, teacher and inventor. He is known for his theory on microtonal music. He began to sing in his church choir and there his choir conductor encourages Julian to go study at the state Capital and he goes off. He studied violin and composition during his early twenties in Mexico, and then he goes to study in Europe. He returns to Mexico in 1918. “With his return to Mexico, Carrillo assumed many administrative duties, among them a professorship in composition at the National Conservatory, the post of Inspector-General of Music for Mexico City and the founder-directorship of a Beethoven Orchestra and Quartet. From 1913 to 1914 he served as director of the National Conservatory,..” (Oxford) Carrillo’s interest in microtonal music arouse in 1895, “by a class in Mexico on acoustics. He realized that the musical whole tone could be divided not only into two semitones (as it had been for centuries) but also into three third tones, four quarter tones…”(Britannica) He developed, reformed, and made new musical instruments that can produce micro-intervals.
Carrillo performed his first symphony in New York City. He became so successful, that journalist were so impressed and named him, "the herald of a musical Monroe Doctrine". Then in 1916, he “ composed music for D. W. Griffith's film, Intolerance. In New York, Carrillo also wrote the "Thirteenth Sound Theory" which was published later in the second volume of Musical Talks. Carrillo express himself about the “ Thirteenth Sound” (Sonido 13) as, “ the beginning of the end and the starting point of a new musical generation coming to transform everything.”
Mr. Carrillo, composed a substantial amount of microtonal and recorded over 30 compositions. Throughout the remaining 40 years of his life, he went on with experimenting and composing with prominent success.
Discography
· Preludio a Colón (Prelude to Columbus for voice with chamber ensemble, 1922, first performed in 1924)
· Sonata casi fantasia for violin, violoncello and guitar in quarter-, eighth- and sixteenth-tones (1925)
· Concertino in quarter-, eighth- and sixteenth-tones for violin, cello and harp with orchestra (1926, commissioned by Leopold Stokowski who also commissioned the first of two Columbus Symphonies in quarter-, eighth- and sixteenth-tones, both 1926)
· Horizons: Symphonic Poem for violin and cello in quarter- and eighth-tones and harp in sixteenth-tones with orchestra (1947)
· two Concertos for violin and orchestra in quarter-tones (1949 and 1959); and Mass to Pope John XXIII for male voices a capella in quarter-tones (“Mass of Restoration”, 1962).
Bibliography
J. Velasco-Urda: Julián Carrillo: su vida y su obra (Mexico City, 1945)
J. Etienne-Marie: ‘Julián Carrillo’, Nouvelles du Mexique, xliii-xliv (1965–6), 3–10
A. Pike: ‘The Discoveries and Theories of Julián Carrillo: 1875–1965’, Inter-American Music Bulletin, no.55 (1966), 1–10
G.R. Benjamin: ‘Julián Carrillo and “sonido trece”’, YIAMR, iii (1967), 33–68
E.R. Blackaller: La revolución musical de Julián Carrillo, Cuadernos de lectura popular, no.237 (Mexico City, 1969)
J.A. Orrego-Salas, ed.: ‘Microfilm Special Collection–Carrillo’, Music from Latin America Available at Indiana University: Scores, Tapes, and Records (Bloomington, IN, 1971), 168
G.R. Benjamin: ‘Homage to Julián Carrillo’, Carnegie Hall Bulletin: 1974/1975 Season (New York, 20 March 1975), 1–4
J. Ford: ‘Carrillo after 100 years’, Creative Guitar International [Edinburgh, TX], iii/1 (1975), 11–14
J. Ford: ‘Carrillo: Music Pioneer’, Creative Guitar International [Edinburgh, TX], iii/2 (1976), 14–16
J. Ford: ‘Carrillo’s Sonido trece’, Creative Guitar International [Edinburgh, TX], iii, no.3 (1976), 12–14
G.R. Benjamin: ‘Una deuda cultural saldada: la contribución de Julián Carrillo a la música del futuro’, RMC, no.158 (1982), 60–71
D. Carrillo: Julián Carrillo: testimonio de una vida (San Luis Potosí, 1992)
R. Lorenz, ed.: ‘Julián Carrillo’, Scores and Recordings at the Indiana University Latin American Music Center (Bloomington, IN, 1995), 297–99
References
http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/05018?q=julian+carrillo&search=quick&pos=1&_#firsthit
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/97044/Julian-Carrillo
http://www.last.fm/music/Julián+Carrillo
Oxford Music Online
Wikipidea : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julián_Carrillo