Daniel Castañeda Soriano
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Daniel Castañeda Soriano was a Mexican musicologist
, composer
and engineer
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Soriano was Chief of the Academia de Música Mexicana at the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico in the 1930s. His main interest was focused on Mexican folklore
. With the collaboration of Vicente T. Mendoza
, he compiled a treatise of Pre-Columbian era
instruments, published in 1937 under the name Instrumental Precortesiano.
Musicology
Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...
, composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and engineer
Audio engineering
An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
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Soriano was Chief of the Academia de Música Mexicana at the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico in the 1930s. His main interest was focused on Mexican folklore
Folklore
Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...
. With the collaboration of Vicente T. Mendoza
Vicente T. Mendoza
Vicente Teódulo Mendoza Gutiérrez was a Mexican musicologist, composer and drawer.In 1907 when Vicente T. Mendoza was 13 years old, he went to Mexico City where he studied piano and composition at the National Conservatory. At the same time he studied drawing. Between 1912 and 1930 he worked as a...
, he compiled a treatise of Pre-Columbian era
Pre-Columbian era
The pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents, spanning the time of the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic period to European colonization during...
instruments, published in 1937 under the name Instrumental Precortesiano.