The hall is generally intoned with guitar and requinto.
The corridor, a popular rhythm born in the independence struggles and which has its own museum and school in Ecuador, was designated this Tuesday Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
“’El Pasillo’, song and poetry, has just been inscribed on the #Intangible Heritage list. Congratulations #Ecuador! ”Unesco wrote on Twitter.
With this appointment, the country adds another cultural expression to the list of heritage manifestations. In 2015, together with Colombia, he managed to have the marimba and the traditional songs and dances of the coastal border region also recognized.
The corridor, which is considered a variation of the waltz that is played in a 3/4 measure, is produced in the Andean provinces of Pichincha, Azuay, Cañar, Loja and Chimborazo, and in the coastal Guayas, Manabí, El Oro and Los Ríos, according to the Ecuadorian National Institute of Cultural Heritage (INPC).
“The corridor historically comes from the process that our libertarian struggles left us”, He told the AFP the ethnomusicologist Juan Mullo, recalling that this rhythm was conceived in Greater Colombia, which was made up of what is now Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela.
He added that until the 1970s the hallway was a “ballroom dancing”, But that over time lost that characteristic, becoming, above all, a rhythm for singing.
“This is music to dance to, not to undergo” as is usually believed, Mullo noted.
The hall is generally toned with guitar and requinto. “Portrays history”, considered a young man in the presentation of the candidacy of the musical genre, adding that it is “pure poetry.”
Its name is due to the way it was danced, with short and fast steps, and “it gives us identity, it is a musical genre that unites and represents Ecuadorians,” according to the INPC.
Ecuador celebrates since 1993, every October 1, the Day of the Hall. That date coincides with the birth of the Ecuadorian singer Julio Jaramillo, known as the “Nightingale of America” and one of the main exponents of the genre. He passed away in 1978, when he was 42 years old. (I)
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