Downtown area
Musical work, for chamber orchestra, which recreates the atmospheres experienced when walking through the streets of the downtown area of my city (Tijuana).
Using the popular urban rhythms that can be heard live, performed by all the city's musicians, such as:
Rap hip hop). The most popular and booming genre among young people in this city in particular and throughout Mexico in general.
Jazz, which since the 1960s has been played on the legendary Av. Revolución.
Aztec Dance (Mexica) that is still practiced by various circles of the city and the country, preserving ancient cultures.
Reggae. Music of conscience and positive message, which is the most listened to and performed by numerous local and independent bands from the northern border.
Divided into three parts, it begins with a melody or main theme, such as the bass line used on rap tracks, played first by the trombone, the double bass, and later also by the other instruments, on a rhythmic basis in the section of percussions with a characteristic rhythm of rap music at a speed of 90 bpm.
To this base melodies are added by the different instruments of the orchestra in the key of D minor.
The first part ends with a percussion solo, emulating the typical improvisation of urban percussionists, giving way to the second part, which begins with the percussion section playing the rhythm of one of the traditional Aztec dances called "fire".
This Aztec dance rhythm is interspersed with a syncopated jazz-style rhythm.
On this rhythmic basis, which goes from Aztec dance to jazz, the other instruments make melodies in an atonal way using chromaticisms, emulating the jazzists' playful experimentation.
End this section with a short double bass solo that leads to Part 3, which drops the speed to 80 bpm. It starts with the string section making a harmonic base typical of Reggae music, in D minor, followed by percussion. On this rhythm, the wind instruments make melodies taking up motifs from the first part, with variations, ending with the main theme of the beginning or main bass line.
In the end, speed up to 130 bpm. Making a characteristic ska rhythm, a descendant of reggae genre, increasing in intensity until reaching a powerful climax.
The instruments used are: Metals, a trombone, a trumpet, a horn, a transverse flute. Woods, an oboe, a clarinet. Strings, two violins, two violas, a cello and a double bass. Percussions, a snare drum, a cymbal and timpani.