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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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Alex Bueno
Alex Bueno (born 6 September 1963) is a singer and guitarist from the Dominican Republic, specializing in merengue and bachata music.
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Angel Viloria y su Conjunto Típico Cibaeño
Angel Viloria y su Conjunto Típico Cibaeño was a merengue band performing in the US Latin community in the 1950s.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.
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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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Bass guitar
The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.
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Billo Frómeta
Billo Frómeta (born November 15, 1915 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Caracas May 5, 1988) was a Dominican orchestra conductor, arranger and composer who lived and worked most of his life in Venezuela, where he is remembered.
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Bomba (Puerto Rico)
Bomba is one of the traditional musical styles of Puerto Rico.
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Bonny Cepeda
Bonny Cepeda (born Fernando Antonio Cruz Paz in the Dominican Republic) is a merengue artist, band leader and producer.
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Brass
Brass is a metallic alloy that is made of copper and zinc.
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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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Chantelle (band)
Chantelle was a popular merengue musical group from Puerto Rico, which performed from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
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Cibao
The Cibao, usually referred as "El Cibao", is a region of the Dominican Republic located at the northern part of the country.
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Conga
The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba.
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Cuarteto
Cuarteto (quartet), sometimes called cuartetazo, is a musical genre born in Córdoba, Argentina.
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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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Cuco Valoy
Cuco Valoy (born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 5 January 1937) is Dominican salsa, son montuno and merengue musician.
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Diatonic and chromatic
Diatonic (διατονική) and chromatic (χρωματική) are terms in music theory that are most often used to characterize scales, and are also applied to musical instruments, intervals, chords, notes, musical styles, and kinds of harmony.
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) is a sovereign state located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region.
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Ecuador
Ecuador (Ikwadur), officially the Republic of Ecuador (República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Ikwadur Ripuwlika), is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
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Eddy Herrera
Eduardo José Herrera de los Ríos (born 30 April 1964 in Santiago de los Caballeros), also known as Eddy Herrera, is a Dominican merengue singer and winner of more than seven Casandra Awards.
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Eduardo Brito
Eduardo Brito (January 22, 1906 – January 5, 1946) was a Dominican Baritone singer.
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Fernando Villalona
Fernando Villalona, the first artist named "El Mayimbe" (born in Loma de Cabrera, Dajabón Province on May 7, 1955, Ramón Fernando Villalona Évora), is a Dominican merengue singer who began singing in the early 1970s, his popularity started to grow by the late 1970s and has not declined ever since.
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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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Gisselle
Gisselle Ortiz Cáceres, known simply as Gisselle (born March 28, 1970 in New York City, U.S.) is a Puerto Rican Merengue singer.
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Grupo Manía
Grupo Manía (sometimes spelled Grupomanía or GrupoManía) is a popular merengue group from Puerto Rico that released its debut album in 1993.
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Grupo Rana
Grupo Rana is a Merengue group founded in Tecpán Guatemala.
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Guaracha
The guaracha is a genre of Cuban popular music, of rapid tempo and comic or picaresque lyrics.
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Guayaquil
Guayaquil, officially Santiago de Guayaquil (St.), is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador, with around 2 million people in the metropolitan area, as well as the nation's main port.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras), is a republic in Central America.
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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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Jossie Esteban y la Patrulla 15
Jossie Esteban y la Patrulla 15 is a leading merengue band from Dominican Republic, formed by Jossie Esteban (born Esteban Grullón) and Alberto Martínez (known as Ringo).
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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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Juilliard School
The Juilliard School, informally referred to as Juilliard and located in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is a performing arts conservatory established in 1905.
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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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Las Chicas del Can
Las Chicas Del Can was the first all-female merengue group from Dominican Republic.
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Latin America
Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.
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Los Hermanos Rosario
Los Hermanos Rosario (The Rosario Brothers in English) is a merengue music band, originally consisting of brothers Toño Rosario, Pepe, Rafa and Luis.
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Los Melódicos
Los Melódicos is a Latin dance band from Venezuela which plays a mix of tropical rhythms.
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Luis Alberti
Luis Alberti (April 6, 1906 – January 26, 1976) was a Dominican Merengue musician, arranger, conductor, and author of significant popular songs such as Compadre Pedro Juan and many others performed and recorded by noted interpreters with diverse backgrounds.
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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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Marímbula
The marímbula is a plucked box musical instrument of the Caribbean.
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Marimba
The marimba is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with mallets called knobs to produce musical tones.
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Méringue
Méringue (mereng), also called méringue lente or méringue de salon (slow or salon méringue), is a dance music and national symbol in Haiti.
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Merengue (dance)
Merengue is a style of Dominican music and dance.
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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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Merenhouse
Meren(gue)house/Merenrap is a hip hop music style formed by blending Dominican merengue music with rap, dancehall reggae and hip hop.
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Merenrap
Meren(gue)house/Merenrap (merenrap or merenhouse) is a hip hop music style formed by blending merengue music, with house music, hip hop music, and Caribbean music.
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Milly Quezada
Milagros Quezada Borbón, known simply as Milly Quezada, (born May 21, 1955) is a Latin Grammy-winning Dominican Merengue music singer.
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Miriam Cruz
Miriam Cruz (born August 17, 1968 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a merengue musician.
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Music of Latin America
The music of Latin America refers to music originating from Latin America, namely the Romance-speaking countries and territories of the Americas and the Caribbean south of the United States.
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Music of the Dominican Republic
The music of the Dominican Republic is primarily influenced by West African, European, and native Taino influences.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Olga Tañón
Olga Teresa Tañón Ortíz (born April 13, 1967 in Santurce) is a Puerto Rican recording artist.
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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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Panama
Panama (Panamá), officially the Republic of Panama (República de Panamá), is a country in Central America, bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south.
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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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Pochy y su Cocoband
Pochy y Su Cocoband, also called Cocoband, was a leading Dominican Republic merengue group in the 1990s.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.
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Porfi Jiménez
Porfirio Antonio Jiménez Núñez (February 16, 1928 – June 8, 2010) was a Dominican-born Venezuelan Latin music composer, arranger, and bandleader.
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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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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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Ramón Orlando
Ramón Orlando Valoy is a merengue musician and son of Cuco Valoy.
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Ranchera
Ranchera, or canción ranchera is a genre of the traditional music of Mexico.
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Reggaeton
Reggaeton (also known as reggaetón and reguetón) is a music genre which originated in Puerto Rico during the late 1990s.
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Rubby Perez
Roberto Antonio Pérez Herrera (born in March 8, 1956), known professionally as Rubby Perez is a Dominican merengue singer.
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Santiago de los Caballeros
Santiago de los Caballeros or simply Santiago (English: Saint James of the Thirty Knights) is the second-largest city in the Dominican Republic, and the fourth-largest city in the Caribbean.
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Santiago Province (Dominican Republic)
Santiago is a province of the Dominican Republic, in the north of the country.
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Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo (meaning "Saint Dominic"), officially Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population.
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Saxophone
The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.
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Sergio Vargas
Sergio Vargas (born March 15, 1960) is a Dominican merengue singer.
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Southern Cone
The Southern Cone (Cono Sur, Cone Sul) is a geographic and cultural region composed of the southernmost areas of South America, south of and around the Tropic of Capricorn.
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String instrument
String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.
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Syncopation
In music, syncopation involves a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected which make part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat.
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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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Time signature
The time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, or measure signature) is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats (pulses) are to be contained in each measure (bar) and which note value is equivalent to one beat.
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Toño Rosario
Máximo Antonio del Rosario (born November 3, 1955), commonly known as Toño Rosario, is a Grammy-award nominee Merengue musician.
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Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.
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Tropical music
Tropical music (música tropical) is a category used in the music industry to denote Latin music from the Caribbean.
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Trumpet
A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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Tuba
The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.
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Tumba (music)
Tumba is a musical form native to Aruba and Curaçao.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a sovereign state in the southeastern region of South America.
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Vallenato
Vallenato, along with cumbia, is a popular folk music of Colombia.
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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela),Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999).
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Wilfrido Vargas
Wilfrido Radamés Vargas Martínez (born April 24, 1949 in Altamira, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic) is a bandleader, trumpeter, vocalist, arranger, composer and producer who was instrumental in making the merengue style a worldwide phenomenon.
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Woodwind instrument
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merengue_music
