guantanamera (satb)
- Catalog ID: S-112
- First Line: guantanamera guajira
- Composer: Glickman, Gene
- Voicing: satb
- Language: Spanish
- Country: Cuba
- Other: 2000
- Score: View Score
- Sound: Listen
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Description
This song by Jose Fernandez comes from Cuba. The text was written about a century ago by Jose Marti, am important Cuban poet, known as “the Father of his Country.”
The music is derived from a pre-existing Cuban song/dance form which makes the words of the refrain much older than Marti’s verses. “Guantanamara” is a woman from Guantanamo, the southeasternmost region of the island of Cuba. “Guajira” is a peasant woman. Thus, the refrain refers to a peasant woman from Guantanamo.