The student body was able to appreciate and record the different music, especially rhythms, according to the characteristics of each type of Religious Dance, as well as a diversity of musical instruments and sound objects of artisan manufacture.

Last Sunday, October 7, the traditional Fiesta Chica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Andacollo was held, an opportunity in which a group of 32 first-year students of the Pedagogy in Music Education career at the U. de La Serena, who are studying the subject Musical Ethnography I, carried out a Musical Ethnographic Fieldwork.

As explained by the academic from the Department of Music of the ULS, Lina Barrientos, the Fiesta Chica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Andacollo is “organized by Jaime Guerrero, Cacique General of Religious Dances, where once again, perhaps before 1584, uninterruptedly, devotees will fulfill the promises and/or thanks to the chinita, as the Virgin is affectionately distinguished. Chinita comes from the Chinese Quechua word that connotes server.

Various Religious Dances grouped into Chinese since 1584, Turbans since 1752, Dance since 1798, typical of the Coquimbo Region participate in this Festival; Modern of Thick Instrumental since 1960 with influence of the Dances of Indians, Morenos and Gypsies of La Tirana; and since the year 2000 Dances with Bronze Bands influenced by the Dances of the Ayquina Festival, in the Antofagasta Region, who in turn have taken them from the Religious Dances and Carnival of Oruro-Bolivia, in which it is possible to appreciate the syncretism or hybridization of the Andean-Afro-Catholic.

As in the pedagogical professional training of the Musical Education Pedagogy student body, the sound-musical observation of their own environment is considered in relation to the context in which it is present, the group of first-year students made records of the observations based on a guideline and previous preparation in the classroom.

"In this way, the students were able to appreciate and record the different music, especially rhythms, according to the characteristics of each type of Religious Dance, as well as a diversity of musical instruments and sound objects of artisanal manufacture, in addition to the individual songs of alférez and group greeting and farewell events in a responsorial format,” said academic Lina Barrientos.

In addition to the teaching aspect of this trip to Andacollo, the ethnomusicological aspect was also present, related to the ongoing project: Turbans and Dances of Andacollo in its music. Aesthetics and emotions of a popular faith, by teachers Daniela Banderas and Lina Barrientos, a project financed by the Fund for the Promotion of National Music of the MCAP, sponsored by DIDULS and the Department of Music of the state campus, a study that also includes with the consent of the General Chief and the heads of Dances involved in the study.