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Wind instruments made of bamboo played by students in Talaud, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. An example of a slit drum or scraper from the Philippines known as a kagul by the Maguindanaon people [1] Bamboo ' s natural hollow form makes it an obvious choice for many musical instruments. In South and South East Asia, traditional uses of bamboo the ...
A lip-valley flute like the palendag, the tumpong makes a sound when players blow through a bamboo reed placed on top of the instrument and the air stream produced is passed over an airhole atop the instrument. This masculine instrument is usually played during family gatherings in the evening and is the most common flute played by the ...
Royal Palace of Madrid Plaza de España, Seville. Spanish architecture refers to architecture in any area of what is now Spain, and by Spanish architects worldwide. The term includes buildings which were constructed within the current borders of Spain prior to its existence as a nation, when the land was called Iberia, Hispania, or was divided between several Christian and Muslim kingdoms.
Azulejo; Calatrava style - The futuristic style of architecture invented and designed by world renown Spanish architect, Santiago Calatrava.Examples include the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, in Valencia, the planned Chicago Spire, Puente del Alamillo, in Seville, and the new World Trade Center Transportation Hub at rebuilt New World Trade Center site in New York City.
The Word Made Image: Religion, Art, and Architecture in Spain and Spanish America, 1500-1600. Boston 1998. Kagan, Richard. Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793. New Haven: Yale University Press 2000. Keleman, Pal. Baroque and Rococo in Latin America. New York 1951. Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century. New York: MoMA 1992.
Spanish colonial architecture represents Spanish colonial influence on the cities and towns of its former colonies, and is still seen in the architecture as well as in the city planning aspects of conserved present-day cities. These two visible aspects of the city are connected and complementary.
Northwest Spain (Asturias, Galicia and Cantabria) is home to a distinct musical tradition extending back into the Middle Ages. The signature instrument of the region is the gaita . The gaita is often accompanied by a snare drum, called the tamboril, and is played in processional marches.
In the north, the richest province of 18th-century New Spain – Mexico – produced some fantastically extravagant and visually frenetic architecture known as Mexican Churrigueresque. This ultra-Baroque approach culminates in the works of Lorenzo Rodriguez , whose masterpiece is the Sagrario Metropolitano in Mexico City (1718–69).