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2. Music of Guatemala - Wikipedia

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   The music of Guatemala is diverse. Music is played all over the country. Towns also have wind and percussion bands that play during the lent and Easter-week processions as well as on other occasions. The marimba is an important instrument in Guatemalan traditional songs. The oldest documented use of marimba in the Americas dates to 1680 during ...

3. Catá - Wikipedia

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   Catá. The catá or guagua is a Cuban percussion instrument which originated in the eastern region of the island. It is classified as a directly struck idiophone, traditionally made out of a hollowed tree trunk, which the player hits with wooden sticks or mallets. The resulting sound is dry and penetrating, similar to that of the claves ...

4. Punta - Wikipedia

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   Musicians in the pororó festival in the streets at Livingston, Izabal, Guatemala. December 2015. The music of punta involves responsorial singing accompanied by indigenous membranophones, idiophones, and aerophones. [1] Membranophones are instruments that create sound through a vibrating skin or vellum stretched over an opening, as in all ...

5. Idiophone - Wikipedia

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   An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity (electrophones). It is the first of the four main divisions in the original Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical ...

6. Miguel Sandoval (composer) - Wikipedia

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   Piano. Years active. 1918–1953. Miguel Angel Sandoval Cabrera (3 November 1902 – 24 August 1953), was a Guatemalan-born American pianist, conductor and composer. He spoke Spanish, English, French, and Italian. [1] His musical works contributed greatly to both countries, and he is viewed as a musical ambassador of Guatemala.

7. Music download - Wikipedia

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   Music download. A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without ...