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"Nuestro Cuatro: Volumen 1", The Puerto Ricans and their stringed instruments. An unprecedented documentary that reveals the emotional story of the development and the history of the music and stringed instruments traditions of Puerto Rico. "Nuestro Cuatro: Volumen 2", Un Concierto Histórico/A Historical Concert. The conclusion of the video ...
The Puerto Rican cuatro, a staple of jibaro music Jíbaro culture is also characterized by its own typical Puerto Rican folk music, commonly termed " jíbaro music ". [ 12 ] " Jíbaro music and dance was the principal musical expression of the humble and hardworking mountain people who worked the coffee plantations and inland farms of Puerto Rico."
Upon Clemente's death in a plane crash in 1971, Rivera asked a local instruments luthier to assemble a cuatro out of that same bat, which he called "bate cuatro" (bat cuatro). [1] Rivera died on February 4, 2001, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was buried at the Puerto Rico National Cemetery in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. During his lifetime, he had ...
Their instruments [4] were relatives of the Spanish vihuela, especially the cuatro — which evolved from four single strings to five pairs of double strings — [5] and the lesser known tiple. [6] A typical jíbaro group nowadays might feature a cuatro, guitar, and percussion instrument such as the güiro scraper and/or bongo.
English: Historic model of the Puerto Rican "Cuatro," a type of guitar from Puerto Rico and Venezuela. Picture taken in the Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña Picture taken in the Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña
There is also a cuatro lírico (lyrical cuatro), which is about the size of the tenor, but has a deep jellybean-shaped body; a cuatro sonero, which has 15 strings in 5 courses of 3 strings each; and a seis, which is a cuatro tradicional with an added two-string course (usually a lower course), giving it a total of 12 strings in 6 courses. [4]
Edwin Colón Zayas (October 27, 1965), is a Puerto Rican cuatro player from Puerto Rico.He joins a large number of Puerto Rican artists, "innovative tradition-bearing," [1] who focus their talents in extolling the virtues of the Puerto Rican creole and Jíbaro way of life.
Víctor Guillermo "Yomo" Toro (26 July 1933 – 30 June 2012) was a Puerto Rican left-handed guitarist and cuatro player. [1] Known internationally as "The King of the Cuatro," Toro recorded over 150 albums throughout a 60-year career and worked extensively with Cuban legends Arsenio Rodríguez and Alfonso "El Panameño" Joseph; salsa artists Willie Colón, Héctor Lavoe and Rubén Blades; and ...