El himno nacional argentino. Los aportes heurísticos de Inocencio Aguado Aguirre para un estado de la cuestión en 1939

Abstract

 As it is known, the history of the Argentine National Anthem is, in fact, the history of its versions. Authenticated copy of the complete poetry written by Vicente López y Planes is preserved, at the request of the Constituent General Assembly of 1813; however, the original score by Blas Parera has not survived. Since then, melody and harmony, formal structure, extension and instrumentation have changed and the National Anthem commissioned by the Assembly has been sung in more than twenty adaptations. In this paper we analyze the meaning and ideology that led to a musicological document which compared six of those versions known in 1939. It was prepared by the Spanish composer Inocencio Aguado Aguirre in the city of San Juan to join the national and unfinished debate about the legitimacy of any of the versions.