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57 relations: Accordion, Aventura (band), Bachata (music), Bachata Rosa, Bolero, Bongo drum, Brass instrument, Brazil, Call and response (music), Congo Basin, Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexico), Cuba, Culture of Europe, Dem Bow, Dominican rock, Don Miguelo, Electric guitar, Elite, Francisco Ulloa (accordionist), Güira, Haiti, Heavy metal music, Irony, Johnny Ventura, Juan Espínola, Juan Francisco García (composer), Juan Luis Guerra, Juancho, Julio Alberto Hernández, Kinito Méndez, List of Caribbean membranophones, Luis Días (composer), Martha Ellen Davis, Merengue music, Merengue típico, Miami, Michel Camilo, Pambiche, Pandero, Piano, Pop rock, Puerto Rico, Punk rock, Rafael Trujillo, Refrain, Rhythm and blues, Rita Indiana y los Misterios, Rock and roll, Salsa music, Sampling (music), ..., Synthesizer, Taíno, Tambora (Dominican drum), Toque Profundo, Transporte Urbano, Tres Coronas, 42-01. Expand index (7 more) »
Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.
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Aventura (band)
Aventura was an American bachata band from The Bronx, New York.
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Bachata (music)
Bachata is a genre of Latin American music that originated in the Dominican Republic in the first half of the 20th century with European, Indigenous, and African musical elements.
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Bachata Rosa
Bachata Rosa (English: Pink Bachata) is the fifth studio album by Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra and his group 4.40.
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Bolero
Bolero is a genre of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance.
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Bongo drum
Bongos (Spanish: bongó) are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed drums of different sizes.
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Brass instrument
A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.
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Brazil
Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
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Call and response (music)
In music, a call and response is a succession of two distinct phrases usually written in different parts of the music, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or in response to the first.
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Congo Basin
The Congo Basin is the sedimentary basin of the Congo River.
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Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexico)
The Conservatorio Nacional de Música (National Conservatory of Music, in Spanish) is a music conservatory located in the Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico.
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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.
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Culture of Europe
The culture of Europe is rooted in the art, architecture, music, literature, and philosophy that originated from the continent of Europe.
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Dem Bow
"Dem Bow" is a song performed by Jamaican reggae artiste Shabba Ranks, produced by Bobby Digital who helped popularize and spread the reggaeton genre in the 1990s.
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Dominican rock
Dominican Rock (known as "Rock Dominicano" in Dominican Republic) is rock music created by Dominican groups and soloists.
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Don Miguelo
Miguel Ángel Valerio Lebrón (born August 21, 1981), better known by his stage name Don Miguelo, is a Dominican rapper in the Reggaeton genre.
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Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.
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Elite
In political and sociological theory, the elite (French élite, from Latin eligere) are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a society.
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Francisco Ulloa (accordionist)
Francisco Ulloa is a famous merengue accordionist, specializing in merengue típico.
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Güira
The güira is a metal scraper from the Dominican Republic used as a percussion instrument in cumbia and merengue, to a lesser extent, other genres such as bachata.
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Haiti
Haiti (Haïti; Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti, is a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea.
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Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.
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Irony
Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.
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Johnny Ventura
Juan de Dios Ventura Soriano (born March 8, 1940 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), better known as Johnny Ventura or "El Caballo Johnny Ventura", is a Dominican singer and band leader of merengue and salsa.
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Juan Espínola
Juan Espínola was a Dominican merengue musician in the early 20th century.
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Juan Francisco García (composer)
Juan Francisco García (born June 16, 1892 - November 18, 1974) was a Dominican merengue composer.
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Juan Luis Guerra
Juan Luis Guerra Seijas (born June 7, 1957), known professionally as Juan Luis Guerra, is a Dominican singer, songwriter, composer, and producer.
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Juancho
Juancho is a town in the Pedernales Province of the Dominican Republic.
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Julio Alberto Hernández
Julio Alberto Hernández (September 27, 1900 – April 2, 1999) was a Dominican composer.
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Kinito Méndez
Kinito Méndez, born José del Carmen Ramírez on November 18, 1961, is a Merengue Music singer.
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List of Caribbean membranophones
This is a list of membranophones used in the Caribbean music area, including the islands of the Caribbean Sea, as well as the musics of Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Belize, Garifuna music, and Bermuda.
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Luis Días (composer)
Luis Díaz Portorreal, best known as Luis Días, was a musician, composer and performer of popular music born in the Dominican Republic.
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Martha Ellen Davis
Martha Ellen Davis is an emeritus professor from the University of Florida, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist known for her multifarious work on African diasporic religion and music.
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Merengue music
Merengue is a type of music and dance originating in the Dominican Republic, which has become a very popular genre throughout Latin America, and also in several major cities in the United States which have Hispanic communities.
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Merengue típico
Merengue típico (also known as merengue cibaeño or colloquially as Perico ripiao) is a musical genre of the Dominican Republic, and the oldest style of merengue.
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Miami
Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.
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Michel Camilo
Michel Camilo (born April 4, 1954) is a Grammy-award winning pianist and composer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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Pambiche
Pambiche is a Dominican music genre and dance form derived from merengue típico, the traditional style of merengue.
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Pandero
The pandero is a musical instrument of the membranophone family consisting of a circular frame, often made of wood or plastic, with a single head of skin stretched over it.
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Piano
The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.
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Pop rock
Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is rock music with a greater emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude.
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
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Rafael Trujillo
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (24 October 1891 – 30 May 1961), nicknamed El Jefe (The Chief or The Boss), was a Dominican politician, soldier and dictator, who ruled the Dominican Republic from February 1930 until his assassination in May 1961.
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Refrain
A refrain (from Vulgar Latin refringere, "to repeat", and later from Old French refraindre) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the "chorus" of a song.
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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.
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Rita Indiana y los Misterios
Rita Indiana y los Misterios is an alternative merengue band based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.
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Salsa music
Salsa music is a popular dance music that initially arose in New York City during the 1960s.
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Sampling (music)
In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.
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Taíno
The Taíno people are one of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean.
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Tambora (Dominican drum)
The Dominican tambora (from the Spanish word tambor, meaning "drum") is a two headed drum played in merengue music.
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Toque Profundo
Toque Profundo, sometimes referred to as Toque, or TP, is a rock group from the Dominican Republic, the most successful of the local Dominican bands to date in the late 80s and 90s.
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Transporte Urbano
Transporte Urbano is a rock group from the Dominican Republic.
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Tres Coronas
Tres Coronas was a rap group, established in early 2001 in Queens, New York.
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42-01
42-01 is a Dominican rock band formed in 2014 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_Dominican_Republic
