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  2. Non-lexical vocables in music - Wikipedia

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    In Irish traditional music and Highland Scots music, it is called lilting, and in English traditional music it is called diddling. Vocables frequently act as formal markers, indicating the beginning and end of phrases, sections or songs themselves, [1] and also as onomatopoeic references, cueing devices, and other purposes. [2]

  3. Music of Spain - Wikipedia

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    It has played an important role in the development of Western music, and has greatly influenced Latin American music. Spanish music is often associated with traditional styles such as flamenco and classical guitar. While these forms of music are common, there are many different traditional musical and dance styles across the regions.

  4. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  5. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    The Italian word for "echo"; an effect in which a group of notes is repeated, usually more softly, and perhaps at a different octave, to create an echo effect égal (Fr.) Equal eilend (Ger.) Hurrying ein wenig (Ger.) A little einfach (Ger.) Simple emporté (Fr.) Fiery, impetuous en animant (Fr.) Becoming very lively en cédant (Fr.) Yielding en ...

  6. List of Latin music subgenres - Wikipedia

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    Latin music is vastly large and it is impossible to include every subgenre on any list. [1] Latin music shares a mixture of Indengious and European cultures, and in the 1550s included African influence. [2] In the late 1700s, popular European dances and music, such as contradanzas and danzones, were introduced to Latin music. [2]

  7. Latin music - Wikipedia

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    Latin pop is a catch-all for any pop music sung in Spanish, while Mexican/Mexican-American (also to referred to as Regional Mexican) is defined as any musical style originating from Mexico or influences by its immigrants in the United States including Tejano, and tropical music is any music from the Spanish Caribbean. [16]

  8. Bolero - Wikipedia

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    4 time, this dance music spread to other countries, leaving behind what Ed Morales has called the "most popular lyric tradition in Latin America." [5] The Cuban bolero tradition originated in Santiago de Cuba in the last quarter of the 19th century; [6] it does not owe its origin to the Spanish music and song of the same name. In the 19th ...

  9. Castanets - Wikipedia

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    Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument , used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, [1] Ottoman, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic, Portuguese, Philippine, Brazilian, and Swiss music. In ancient Greece and ancient Rome there was a similar instrument called the crotalum.