This study focuses on the cultural dimensions of music-literary perspectives, which approach the historical and symbolic processes of Afro-Colombians. The lyric pieces included in Carrasquilla's prose can be called scores because they resignify different subaltern voices that, in this case, belong to Yolombo traditions. The analysis of some lyrical moments in the novel, Marquesa de Yolombo of Tomas Carrasquilla, suggest not only the stylistic skills in the author's speeches, but also establish proximities to jazz as a manifestation - improvisation and rhythm - between music and literature. Likewise, rhetorical devices depend on artistic processes of Afro-Colombian idiosyncrasy.