History of the Paraguayan Music

Basic historical information

        The history of the musical cutura of the Paraguay is the study of the musical events happened from the origins until our days.

This study can be divided in very defined stages that possess for separate, its source of information:

1º The indigenous time, in which one studies the musical culture of the natives of our country.

2º The time of the colony that studies the musical activities carried out during the colony.

3º The time of the independence that   understands the study of the musical activities developed from the government from the Dr. France until the war of the Triple Alliance.

4º The current time that he/she understands the study of the current musical culture of the Paraguay.

        To the arrival of the conquerors, natives' thousands populated the fertile regions that at the moment form the Paraguay: the Guarani that inhabited the western region, together with the guarayos, chulupíes, the Moorish cannibals, etc., of a cultural level but I lower.

        The study of this stage was difficult, for the lack of sources of information. They didn't have a musical writing that perpetuated the indigenous melodies.

        The musicólogos had to be been worth of documents extramusicales to write this stage of the history: informations left by the first navigators and settlers that arrived to these lands and of the informations que   actualemente they picked up helped by the elements of the mechanical music, among the few races that they still live isolated, outside of the influence of the civilization.

        Thanks to this intense study of investigation that  they carried out the musicólogos, today we can know the musical culture, excessively interesting, of the Paraguay.