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Dissertations and Doctoral Documents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023–

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First Advisor

Mark Clinton

Degree Name

Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.)

Committee Members

Brenda Wristen, Francisco Souto, Karen Becker

Department

Music

Date of this Version

4-24-2026

Document Type

Dissertation

Citation

A dissertation presented to the faculty of the Graduate College at the University of Nebraska in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Doctor of Musical Arts

Major: Music

Under the supervision of Professor Mark Clinton

Lincoln, Nebraska, May 2026

Comments

Copyright 2026, Lina Maria Luisa Marín Diaz. Used by permission

Abstract

This doctoral document investigates the life and piano works of Carmen Manrique de Quintero (1871–1931), a pivotal yet overlooked figure in Colombian music history. Positioned as a stylistic bridge between the nineteenth-century estética del salón [salon aesthetics] and the professionalization of the Colombian composer, Manrique de Quintero’s output represents a sophisticated synthesis of European forms and Colombian national rhythms. Despite her membership in the influential Garay artistic lineage and her prolific body of work, her legacy has suffered from editorial blurring, fragmented documentation, and systematic intellectual appropriation. Using a multidisciplinary approach of genealogical reconstruction and artistic archaeology, this study restores her professional chronology and analyzes six of her thirty-one identified piano works. The research highlights her innovative use of harmonic suspensions and melodic enclosures, arguing that her compositional voice anticipated the Nueva Expresión movement of Colombian Andean music by half a century. By examining the sociopolitical constraints that once relegated female creativity to the domestic sphere, this work aims to move Manrique de Quintero from the margins of private gatherings into the legitimate canon of twentieth-century piano literature.

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