Talk:Siboney (song)

I would like to rectify the idea that the song by Ernesto Lecuona called Siboney was inspired by homesickness per-se. First of all Siboney is a neo Taino tribe that inhabited Cuba like the Caribe tribe and others that were extinct by over-work and diseases the Spaniards brought with them to Cuba. The lyrics of this tune is a passionate love song that speaks of awaiting anxiously for the Siboney of his dreams in the hut, and feeling he would die if this Siboney doesn't show up. Go figure.....unless the words were written by someone else a woman for example.

"Siboney" key

Most of the arrangements of Siboney that I've heard are in C minor, not C major. I've only seen one arrangement of Siboney in C major.

The C minor scale (C, D, Eb, F, G, Ab, Bb) sounds darker and has three more flats than the C major scale (C, D, E, F, G, A, B). This ends up mattering a lot because the melody includes some of those flatted notes.

This leads me to believe that it's more likely that the original key was C minor rather than C major.

That being said, don't judge yourself too harshly if you mix up the key signatures. You'll probably be okay if you just say it's in C, even if you forget whether it's C major or C minor.

- Alicia Landen 168.93.48.159 (talk) 04:22, 11 September 2024 (UTC)