Guillermo Abadía Morales

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Guillermo Abadía Morales (born May 8, 1912 - January 21, 2010 in Bogotá ) was a Colombian folklorist.

Life

Abadía Morales attended the Escuela Ricaurte and the Liceo de la Salle and studied pharmacy and medicine at the Universidad Nacional for five years . At the same time he began to deal with Indian folklore and did library research and field research on the subject.

From 1965 to 1983 he was professor of Colombian music at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música and director of the Centro de Estudios Folklóricos of the Universidad Nacional; from 1975 to 1998 he was the coordinator for folklore at the Centro de Documentación Musical of the Instituto Colombiano de Cultura . For the Radiodifusora Nacional de Colombia he realized a series about the diverse Colombian folklore traditions. In the early 1970s he wrote a series of articles on regional dances for Colombia Ilustrada ("El torbellino viejo". 1970; "El bambuco", 1971; "El pasillo", 1971; "El currulao", 1972).

Abadía Morales published numerous musicological works. In 1970 his main work Compendio general del folklore colombiano was published . He was awarded the Medalla Manuel Murillo Toro , received honorary diplomas from the Universidad Nacional in 1968 and 1975, the Premio Nacional de Educación in 2007 and the National Prize El Colombiano Ejemplar in February 2008 .

Works

  • Adiciones al vocabulario folklórico colombiano , 1965
  • G. Abadía Morales, Jesús Bermúdez Silva : Algunos cantos nativos tradicionales de la región de Guapí (Cauca) , 1966
  • Estado actual de la investigación folklórica en Colombia , in Boletín del Instituto de Antropología , 1970
  • Compendio general del folklore colombiano , 1970
  • Coplerío Colombiano , 1971
  • La música folklórica colombiana , 1973
  • Folklore y artesanías. Balance de la cultura colombiana actual , 1975
  • Estado actual de nuestra música folklórica , 1976
  • G. Abadía Morales, Manuel Benavides Cuéllar : 18 Estructuras folklóricas de la guabina de Vélez (Santander) , 1977
  • El correo de las brujas
  • Veinte structures de la guabina veleña y mojigangas de torbellino
  • ABC del folclore colombiano
personal data
SURNAME Abadía Morales, Guillermo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1912
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2010
Place of death Bogotá