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An antique Cuatro (c. 1900 - 1915) on exhibit in the Musical Instrument Museum of Phoenix. There are three main types of cuatro: cuatro antiguo of four orders and four strings, the "Southern" cuatro of four orders and eight strings, and the cuatro "moderno" of five orders and ten strings.
The word cuatro was used to represent the number of strings that the instrument initially had, but a 10 stringed, 5 course cuatro was made in 1887, as shown in a photograph taken in 1916. By 1922, cuatro music was being played on Puerto Rican radio stations, like "Los Jíbaros de la Radio" (1932) and "Industrias Nativas" (1934).
Rivera composed more than 1,000 instrumental compositions for the cuatro, including the danzas "A mi Madre" and "Nélida", also the décima Lo que Dios me ha Dado. [1] His musical contributions were primarily in the fields of jibaro music, but he interpreted with equal dexterity most of the other Afro-Caribbean and Latin American genres popular ...
At the age of nine, Carattini learned how to play the cuatro by asking those in town who knew how to play the instrument to teach him. In 1950, his father gave him a better quality cuatro and a guitar. [1] In 1956, when Carattini was 15 years old, he formed the "Trío Los Juglares", which dedicated itself to singing boleros. The trio included ...
Ernesto Cordero was born in New York City and began his higher studies in 1963 when he entered the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico, continuing at the Madrid Royal Conservatory, Spain, where he earned a diploma in 1971. Subsequently, he did post-graduate work in composition with Roberto Caggiano in Rome, Italy, from 1972 to 1974, and with ...
Christian, along with four talented young unite their forces and ideas to form his own group, Harbour estate, integrated the typical music to rock highlighting the instrument of the Puerto Rican cuatro, this with the purpose of presenting an innovative proposal within the Rock genre in Spanish in Puerto Rico, United States and Latin America ...
The Puerto Rican Cuatro Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the traditions that surround the national instrument of Puerto Rico, by means of gathering, promoting and preserving its cultural memories of Puerto Rican musical traditions, folkloric stringed instruments and musicians.
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.