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Mariachi de Concho Andrade, Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, Mariachi México de Pepe Villa Musical artist Miguel Martínez Domínguez (September 29, 1921 in Celaya , Guanajuato – December 5, 2014 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican musician, composer and arranger of mariachi , pioneer in the use of trumpet in this genre.
José L. Hernández (born 27 August 1958) is a Mexican mariachi musician.. Hernández is the youngest of eight children (Esteban and Maria Eva Hernández, parents). He is the founder of Mariachi Sol de Mexico and also Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles, [1] America's first all-female professional mariachi ensemble.
Mariachi (US: / ˌ m ɑːr i ˈ ɑː tʃ i /, UK: / ˌ m ær-/, Spanish: [maˈɾjatʃi]) is an ensemble of musicians that typically play ranchera, the regional Mexican music dating back to at least the 18th century, evolving over time in the countryside of various regions of western Mexico. [1]
Miguel Martínez Domínguez was the first trumpet player for Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán; he is considered the creator of the mariachi-style trumpet as well as its best performer, teacher, and exemplar. In 1944, Rubén Fuentes, a classical violinist with no background in mariachi music, was asked by Silvestre to join the group. Fuentes ...
The guitarrón is usually played by doubling notes at the octave, a practice facilitated by the standard guitarrón tuning A 1 D 2 G 2 C 3 E 3 A 2. Unlike a guitar, the pitch of the guitarrón strings does not always rise as strings move directionally downward from the lowest-pitched string (A 2 , which is the 6th string from the lowest-pitched ...
The song was first popularized by Lucha Reyes, a Mexican singer who was born in Guadalajara and is often regarded as the "mother of ranchera music". [2]In the 1940s, Mexican singer Irma Vila recorded the song and sang it in the musical film Canta y no llores...
In Central Mexico, The most characteristic style of folk music is Mariachi, a style which is played by a group consisting of five or more musicians who wear charro suits and play various instruments such as the violin, the vihuela, guitar, a guitarrón and a trumpet with lyricism usually being about love, betrayal, death, politics ...
Christian Wolff, Boras Song for horn, trumpet, violin and piano; Duo 6 for trumpet and violin For six or seven players (= Music for Merce Cunningham) for violin, viola, trumpet, trombone, piano and bass Mosaic Trio for trumpet, violin and piano Nine for flute, clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, celeste, piano and two cellos Pulse for trumpet ...