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"Social Club Buenavista" (also known as "Buena Vista Social Club") is a danzón composed by Cuban bassist Israel López "Cachao". [1] [2] It is one of his many compositions dedicated to a Cuban venue where he frequently played as part of the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas.
Danzón is the official musical genre and dance of Cuba. [1] It is also an active musical form in Mexico and Puerto Rico.Written in 2 4 time, the danzón is a slow, formal partner dance, requiring set footwork around syncopated beats, and incorporating elegant pauses while the couples stand listening to virtuoso instrumental passages, as characteristically played by a charanga or típica ensemble.
Mambo is a musical form and dance style that developed originally in Cuba, with further significant developments by Cuban musicians in Mexico and the USA. The word "mambo" means "conversation with the gods" in Kikongo , the language spoken by Kongo slaves taken to Cuba .
Márquez is the first born of nine children of Arturo Márquez and Aurora Navarro. Márquez was the only one of the nine siblings to become a musician. Márquez's father was a mariachi musician in Mexico and later in Los Angeles. His paternal grandfather was a Mexican folk musician in the northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua.
Charanga is a traditional ensemble that plays Cuban dance music.They made Cuban dance music popular in the 1940s and their music consisted of heavily son-influenced material, performed on European instruments such as violin and flute by a Charanga orchestra.
Danzón No. 2 is an orchestral composition by Mexican composer Arturo Márquez.Along with Carlos Chávez's Sinfonia India and Silvestre Revueltas' Sensemaya, Danzón No. 2 is one of the most popular and most frequently performed orchestral Mexican contemporary classical music compositions.
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The piece is scored for two pianos and should not take much more than 7 minutes to perform. The score is marked Moderately [quarter note = 88], with the additional parenthetical remark "(nonchalant but precise)"; [8] in fact, the orchestral version is usually performed a bit slower due to specific demands made by Copland in its time, given the difficulty and the expected preciseness of the ...