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This work musically analyses the piece titled “The Fugitive’s Hideout” (El Escondite del Prófugo) (1976) by composer Clarence Martin Sr., a fantasy for oboe and string quartet dedicated to Luis Efraín “Pin” Castro. Its objective is to highlight the “Panamanian” musical resources Martin uses to give it a national identity.
The qualitative methodology used includes musical analysis, highlighting the formal, harmonic and rhythmic-metric analysis of the piece, emphasizing the integration of duple and triple rhythms, suspended cadences, progressions in fifths, chromatic modulations, among others. In addition, interviews were conducted and data collected from texts were extracted to provide historical context for the composer and the piece.
The analysis of the piece reveals the mastery of modal harmony, a characteristic of jazz, as well as folkloric rhythms that lend the piece its national identity without the need for text to recognize it as Panamanian, thus representing a lasting and authentic musical legacy for Panama.
