Trafülkantun. Cantos cruzados entre Garrido y Curilem by L. Jordán & A. Salazar

The book Trafülkantun. Cantos cruzados entre Garrido y Curilem (“Trafülkantun. Cross songs between Garrido and Curilem”) is the result of a research by Laura Jordán, PhD in Musicology, and Andrea Salazar, PhD in Linguistics, on the intellectual relationship, and collaboration between Pablo Garrido (Chilean musicologist) and Juan de Dios Curilem (Mapuche musicologist). The book presents the research, a critical edition of unpublished texts by Garrido, and seven traditional Mapuche songs (ülkantun) – originally compiled by Curilem, which are presented in detail in the third part of the book, which comprises scores, original lyrics in Mapudungún (Mapuche language), Spanish translation, and a QR code that leads to a contemporary interpretations of each song.

The typesetting was done with an assorted palette of type families, which share conceptual and formal relationships, note the “reverse contrast” modulation featured in Mazúrquica, Modérnica, Violeta and Cerchán; it may also be of interest to know that Violeta Parra is the most important and outstanding Chilean musician, poet and artist of the last century, and that one of her songs is called “Mazúrquica Modérnica”.

These type families are combined in a fluid manner for the different text typologies deployed. The main titles are composed with Mazúrquica, the subtitles and margin notes with Modérnica, the main text and some headlines with Violeta, the initial letter with Violeta Jardinera, and a detail of the edition is that we use Chercán to compose the words written in Mapudungún, which are abound in the text. Finally, we used an unpublished Condensed version of Lira Sans to set a table rich in information.