Estudios

MINISTERY OF EDUCATION AND
CULTURE
HIGH SCHOOL NATIONAL

ENGLISH

Félix Pérez Cardozo

Student: Jorge Mongelos

Teacher: Eva Denis

Course: 2º ´´A``

Year: 2011

Index-Indice

Caratula 1

Index 2

Introduction 3

Content in English 4-6

Spanish content 7-9

Conclusion 10

Annex11

Bibliography 12

Introduction-Introducción

In this present paper discusses the life and work of musician, actor Paraguay Felix Fernandez Cardozo.

Ablate their first steps, activities, highlights, history, positions held, compositions, and his last years.

I hope everyone's taste

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Félix Pérez CardozoFélix Pérez Cardozo |
Birth name | Félix Pérez Cardozo |
Born | November the 20th of 1908
Hyaty-Guairá, Paraguay |
Died | 8th of April of 1973
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Nationality | Paraguayan |
Field | Composer, Music. |
He was born on the November 20, 1908 to Teodoro Pérez and Cándida Rosa Cardozo in the small town of Hyaty in the state of Guairá in Paraguay. This town currentlycarries his name. Pérez Cardozo died on April 8, 1973 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Beginnings
He is the most representative icon as regards the interpretation, development of technique and composition of harp music . As is common in Paraguayan music of the countryside, he learned the basics of playing from other harpists, so making him self taught with no known music masters.
He was part of aparadigmatic trio consisting of one harp and two guitars, along with Ampelio Villalba and Diosnel Chase. He received support from the poet Pedro José Carlés, with whom he traveled to the capital city of (Asunción) in 1928. During this time they would play at folk music festivals organized in the “Teatro Granados” by Aristóbulo “Nonón” Domínguez as well as in night clubs.
In 1931 he and his band leftfor Buenos Aires, Argentina, where most of his artistic career took place. They were the first of a long list of Paraguayan musicians that would consequently succeed in the Argentine capital for more than half a century.

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Career
In a short period of time, his individualistic style of interpretations of various compositions, mostly created for theharp, quickly gained him wide public recognition. He was a member of several bands until in 1945 he formed his own group. He enjoyed huge fame in Buenos Aires and throughout all the Río de la Plata area. His success was such that a street in Mendoza was named after him.
He recorded numerous LP’s immortalizing all of his songs but one in particular, became internationally known, his version of“Guyra campana” (“Pájaro campana”),.Even though this master piece is mentioned as a traditional country tune in encyclopedias and history books of Paraguayan music, there is no doubt that the recompilation and the final arrangement of this masterpiece were due to the talent and genius Pérez Cardozo.
His contribution to the evolution and popularization of the Paraguayan harp was of great value since itdeveloped new technical aspects such as the widening of the sound effects through the implementation of extra chords, the independent use of the hands, the accompaniment of broken chords for the Paraguayan Polka and the increasingly technical use of the right hand (chords and melodies with five fingers, tremolos, glissandos and other effects).
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He married the Argentinian Victoria Sanchez - with whom he had three children: Angela Rosa, Bienbenida y Victor.

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Works
Among his greatest harp compositions are found:
* “Guyra campana”,
* “Carreta guy”,
* “Jataity”,
* “Llegada”,
* “Mi despedida”,
* “Angela Rosa”,
* “Che valle mi Hyaty”,
* “Che valle...