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Guarachas (Music)


  • This heading is not qualified by medium of performance. For guarachas for a specific medium, an additional heading is assigned for the medium of performance.
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    • found: Work cat.: Lugo, J. La pirámide [SR] 195-:label (guaracha)
    • found: Grove music online WWW site, Nov. 15, 2007(guaracha; An Afro-Cuban canción form with binary structure based on the habanera rhythm that evolved as a substitute for the Spanish tonadilla escénica in 19th-century urban popular theatre. Its often picturesque and satiric coplas are delivered by a solo voice with a chorus repeating a single estribillo text and melody. Instrumental accompaniment shows the strong rhythmic influence of the habanera and features the guitar, tres, and güiro)
    • found: Orovio, H. Cuban music from A to Z, 2004:(guaracha; a genuine Cuban style of song and dance whose origins are found in the confluence of African and Spanish musical elements. Originally an element of typically Cuban nineteenth-century comic theatre, it later moved to dance halls)
    • found: Music of Puerto Rico WWW site, Nov. 15, 2007(guaracha; a lively and highly danceable music style with lyrics, originating in Spain. Characterized mostly by its rhythm, it is generally played with a bolero section in 2/4 time and a clave section in either 6/8 or 3/4 time, although the order of these sections is sometimes reversed; came to Puerto Rico from Cuba in the mid-19th century, and developed into the jíbaro style that most closely approaches contemporary Latin dance rhythms)
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    • This heading is not qualified by medium of performance. For guarachas for a specific medium, an additional heading is assigned for the medium of performance.
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    • 2007-11-15: new
    • 2007-12-21: revised
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