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Se Quema La Chumbambá (Structure and form (Bars 1-12 are an instrumental…

- - - - Almost constant quaver pulse on bongos.
      - Bar 83- cuatro- syncopation.
      - Vocal phrases begin off the beat on the 2nd quaver of the bar.
      - Every 4th bar being marked by a 3-crotchet rhythm in the vocal lines.
      - Bars 95-96: triplet crotchets in cuatro solo.
      - Bars 91-94: cross-rhythm effect produced by use of a repeating 3-quaver pattern.
- - - - Paired 2-bar phrases.
      - Solo vocal line built from the 1st 6 notes of G minor scale.
      - There are 2 main vocal elements in the solo part:
        
        The lead vocal's "Candela" refrain, which opens on the dominant. This recurring motif, which is immediately repeated, consists of 11(4+7) syllables and finishes with 3 emphatic tone notes.
        
        The contrasting, elaborate "Narrative" phrases(e.g. "Mama que me estoy quemando...") also begin on the dominant, but have a more speech-like (parlando) quality as they accommodate additional syllables in the same performing time of 2 2-bar phrases.
      - Notice how the backing vocals' phrases commend on the mediant or supertonic.
      - The cuatro's opening material consists of balanced rising and falling phrases in which 3rds play a prominent part and indeed from a broken diminished 7th chord in the 2nd bar.
      - The cuatro's extended solo includes:
        
        A broader range of notes.
        
        Additional chromatic notes- C sharp, E natural, F natural.
        
        Broken dominant 7th patterns(bars 97-98).
        
        Leaps of a minor 9th(bars 91-94).
  - - - There is also rhythmic polyphony rising from the interaction between cuatro, vocal parts and percussion section.
      - Vocal parts of the Coro are homophonic, 2 parts signing in intervals of 3rds, 6ths, diminished 5ths(-ma bar 23) and perfect 4ths).
      - "Se quema" opens with monophony in the cuatro(save 2-note chord in bars 3-4).
      - Cuatro also has multi-stopped chords in its extended solo section(b.83, 114-115).
      - Guitar has chordal accompaniment, variously of 4 and 6 notes.