Kena mvim_dc_ae_065 - Museu Virtual de Instrumentos Musicais

KenaAuthor not identified | MIDC

Audio & Video Records

The instruments featured in these videos / audios are not museum items, but similar ones. The visual resources used in the materials are not for profit. The visual resource is used as a way to illustrate the use of a musical instrument with an educational purpose.

Audio

Instrument: Kena and guitar
Work: Charagua
Composer: Víctor Jara
Performer: Christian Ley Monar
Source: Audio originally published on the YouTube channel vientosdemitierra with the title “CHARAGUA (Víctor Jara) – Christian Ley Monar”.

Video

Instrument: Kena
Work: Not determined
Composer: Not determined
Performer: Leonardo Garcia
Source: Video originally published on the Leonardo Garcia YouTube channel with the title “Quena solo. Leonardo Garcia – ‘Horo-escapade’”.

Instruments: Kena and guitar
Work: Indian
Composer: Alicia Maguiña
Interpreters: Sigi Velásquez (kena), Lucho González (guitar)
Source: Video originally published on the Youtube channel Quenuto channel with the title “Quena – Sigi Velásquez / Guitar – Lucho González / Popurri de Música Criolla del Peru”.

Further Information

Description

Bamboo made flute formed by a single piece. It has six holes, five on the instrument’s front and one on the back for the thumb. The instrument has an extension of three octaves approximately. To play, the musician blows placing the inferior lip directly on the external edge of the flute’s upper end, where there is a notch.

Learn more

The kena is an instrument from South America, common in Bolivia, Peru, North of Chile and North of Argentina, and less found in Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas. The name Kena probably comes from the name kena-kena, which is a flute made of the cane groove known since the 16th century, which is still used in rural communities of Aymara, on the Bolivian plateau, especially near Lake Titicaca. Bone made Kenas dated 900 B.C. were found in archeological sites in Peru, showing that the instrument’s presence in the Andean culture is even older. The kena is used during Carnival celebrations in many small rural cities on the South of the Andes, and in rural festivals on the dry months of winter, accompanied by drums.

General Data

Classification

421.111.12 Individual straight flutes with holes

Additional Names

Quena (Source: BASE MINERVA, 2014)

Item Data

Code

mvim_dc_ae_065

Date

20th century

Place of Manufacture

Andes Region

Manufacturer / Author

Author not identified

Material

bamboo

Dimensions

L=33cm D=1,7cm

Marks and Inscriptions

Later inscription written in pencil on the body of the instrument: "QUENA SIN PINTAR".

Origin

Not determined

Location

MIDC/EM/UFRJ Aerophones 421.2 I1 Shelf 20

Bibliography

BASE MINERVA, 2014.
BETHENCOURT; BORDAS; CANO; CARVAJAL; SOUZA; DIAS; LUENGO; PALACIUS; PIQUER, ROCHA, RODRIGUEZ; RUBIALES; RUIZ, 2012.
BRANDÃO, 2013.
GROVE MUSIC ONLINE, 2014.
MIMO, 2014.
RANDEL, 1986.
SADIE, 1994.