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Kwadril

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In French Caribbean culture, especially of the Lesser Antilles, the term kwadril is a Creole term referring to a folk dance derived from the quadrille. [1]

30 relations: Accordion, Balakadri, Ball (dance party), Banjo, Biguine, Bones (instrument), Caribbean Sea, Cuatro (instrument), Dominica, Guadeloupe, Guitar, Jing ping, Les Lanciers, Lesser Antilles, List of Caribbean idiophones, Maraca, Martinique, Mazurka, Music of Dominica, Music of Guadeloupe, Music of Martinique, Music of Saint Lucia, Petite Savanne, Polka, Quadrille, Rattle (percussion instrument), Saint Lucia, Schottische, Shak-shak, Violin.

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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Balakadri

Balakadri (called balkadri or kadri) is a traditional quadrille music that was performed for balls on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.

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Ball (dance party)

A ball is a formal dance party.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Biguine

Biguine is a rhythm-centric style of music that originated in Guadeloupe and Martinique in the 19th century.

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Bones (instrument)

The bones are a musical instrument (more specifically, a folk instrument) which, at the simplest, consists of a pair of animal bones, or pieces of wood or a similar material.

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Caribbean Sea

The Caribbean Sea (Mar Caribe; Mer des Caraïbes; Caraïbische Zee) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.

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Cuatro (instrument)

The cuatro is the name of a family of Latin American instruments found in South America, and in Puerto Rico and other parts of the West Indies.

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Dominica

Dominica (Island Carib), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island republic in the West Indies.

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Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe (Antillean Creole: Gwadloup) is an insular region of France located in the Leeward Islands, part of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Jing ping

Jing Ping is a kind of folk music originated on the slave plantations of Dominica, also known colloquially as an accordion band.

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Les Lanciers

Les Lanciers or The Lancers is a square dance, a variant of the Quadrille, a set dance performed by four couples, particularly popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Lesser Antilles

The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.

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List of Caribbean idiophones

Historically, idiophones (percussion instruments without membranes or strings) have been widespread throughout the Caribbean music area, which encompasses the islands and coasts of the Caribbean Sea.

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Maraca

Maraca, sometimes called rumba shaker, shac-shac, and various other names, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.

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Martinique

Martinique is an insular region of France located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of and a population of 385,551 inhabitants as of January 2013.

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Mazurka

The mazurka (in Polish mazurek, plural mazurki) is a Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, and with "strong accents unsystematically placed on the second or third beat".

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Music of Dominica

The music of Dominica includes a variety of genres including all the popular genres of the world.

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Music of Guadeloupe

The music of Guadeloupe encompasses a large popular music industry, which gained in international renown after the success of zouk music in the later 20th century.

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Music of Martinique

The music of Martinique has a heritage which is intertwined with that of its sister island, Guadeloupe.

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Music of Saint Lucia

The music of Saint Lucia is home to many vibrant oral and folk traditions and is based on elements derived from the music of Africa, especially rhythmically, and Western Europe, dances like the quadrille, polka and waltz.

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Petite Savanne

Petite Savanne (French for "little savannah") was a village on the southeast side of Dominica.

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Polka

The polka is originally a Czech dance and genre of dance music familiar throughout Europe and the Americas.

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Quadrille

The quadrille is a dance that was fashionable in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its colonies.

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Rattle (percussion instrument)

A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when shaken.

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Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia (Sainte-Lucie) is a sovereign island country in the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean.

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Schottische

The schottische is a partnered country dance that apparently originated in Bohemia.

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Shak-shak

The shak-shak (or chak-chak) is a kind of Antillean musical instrument, similar to maracas or shakers.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwadril

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