Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The marimba's first documentary evidence of existence comes from an account in front of the cathedral of Santiago de Guatemala, present-day Antigua Guatemala, in 1680. Later, historian Juan Domingo Juarros mentioned and described it in his Compendium of the History of Guatemala.
Afro-Colombian youth playing the marimba de chonta. In Colombia the most widespread marimba is the marimba de chonta (peach-palm marimba). Marimba music has been listed on UNESCO as an intangible part of Colombian culture. [16] In recent times marimberos (marimba players) and the marimba genres as a whole have started to fade out in popularity ...
El renacimiento de la danza guatemalteca y el origen de la marimba. José de Pineda Ibarra (in Spanish). Guatemala, Centro Editorial: Ministerio de Educación Pública. Guatemala: Chenoweth, Vida (1964). The Marimbas of Guatemala. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press. Guatemala: Pellicer, Sergio Navarrete (2005). Maya Achi Marimba Music in ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Guatemala's national instrument is the marimba, an idiophone from the family of the xylophones, which is played all over the country, even in the remotest corners.Towns also have wind and percussion bands that play during the Lent and Easter-week processions, as well as on other occasions.
marimba: Guatemala and southern Mexico 111.212 Set of wooden bars struck with mallets, descended from the balafon: marimbula [1] [6] [9] [3] marimbol (Mexico) Cuba, introduced to the Dominican Republic and elsewhere 111.2 Box mounted with metal strips that can be plucked, used as a bass instrument in rural folk genres like changüí ...
Salamá, Cubulco, Rabinal, San Miguel Chicaj and San Jerónimo are the only municipalities in Guatemala where the mother tongue is Achi. [5] In the municipality of Cubulco, there are less-visited archaeological sites such as Belejeb' Tzaq, Chilu, Los Cimientos, Nim Poco, and Pueblo Viejo. San Miguel Chicaj is known for its large Catholic church.
Iximche was called Guatemala by the Spanish, from the Nahuatl Quauhtemallan meaning "forested land". [22] Since the Spanish conquistadors founded their first capital at Iximche, they took the name of the city used by their Nahuatl-speaking Mexican allies and applied it to the new Spanish city and, by extension, to the kingdom .