¡Ole mano!
- Instrumentation
- Cello
- Composed
- 2022
- Publisher
- In Estudios para violonchelo sobre músicas de Sudamérica: estilo y técnica, ed. Iván Ricardo Tovar Quevedo and Rafael Julio Delgado Espinoza (Ibermúsicas, 2022; free PDF)
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About this piece
Iván Ricardo Tovar Quevedo, a Colombian cellist and teacher at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, wrote ¡Ole mano! for Estudios para violonchelo sobre músicas de Sudamérica, the 2022 book of twelve studies that Tovar Quevedo compiled with the Argentine-Peruvian cellist Rafael Delgado through an Ibermúsicas grant. It is a torbellino, a country dance in 3/4 from Santander, Boyacá and northern Cundinamarca normally played on the tiple, bandola and guitar, and the title is a Santander greeting used to catch someone's attention. After a slow opening in chords played a piacere, a Vivace copies the tiple requinto with short bow strokes, thirds and sixths, natural harmonics and col legno, while a scraping 'chop' at the frog stands in for the strummed accompaniment. The composer's YouTube channel has a performance from the closing concert of the third Festival Puntal at the Conservatorio Manuel de Falla in Buenos Aires on 4 October 2024.
Technical overview
In 3/4: a Lento introduction (quarter = 55) in chords, then Vivace at quarter = 150. Mostly bass clef in the lower positions, with passages in the tenor and treble clefs built largely on natural harmonics. Double stops in thirds and sixths and against open strings, a percussive 'chop' at the frog, col legno, left-hand pizzicato, grace notes, and a closing section with an accented melody over an open G before a rolled pizzicato chord.
Technical focus
- Chords
- Col Legno
- Double Stops
- Extended Techniques
- Left-Hand Pizzicato
- Pizzicato
- Staccato
- String Crossings
- Tenor Clef
- Treble Clef