Coros de clave were popular choral groups that emerged at the end of the 19th century in Havana and other Cuban cities. Their style was influenced by the orfeones which grew popular in northern Spain in the mid-19th century, and their popularization in the island was linked to the emancipation of African slaves in 1886.[1] The common instrumentation of the coros featured a viola (a string-less banjo used as a percussion instrument), claves, guitar, harp and jug bass.[2]
^Bodenheimer, Rebecca (2014). "Coros de clave". In Shepherd, John; Horn, David (eds.). Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 9. London, UK: Bloomsbury. pp. 223–225. ISBN 9781441132253.
^Moore, Robin (2006). Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. p. 311. ISBN 9780520247109.
Corosdeclave were popular choral groups that emerged at the end of the 19th century in Havana and other Cuban cities. Their style was influenced by the...
closely related to the music of the Cuban CorosdeClave and a genre of Cuban popular music called Clave. The Clave became a very popular genre in the Cuban...
closely related to the music of the Cuban CorosdeClave and a genre of Cuban popular music called Clave. The Clave became a very popular genre in the Cuban...
might follow a three-clavecoro with a one-clave guía, a one-clavecoro interjection and then a three-clave guía, all over an eight-clave chord progression...
clearly based on the key pattern known in Cuba as clave, a Spanish word for 'key' or 'code'. When clave is written in two measures, as shown above, the...
sung by popular choirs mostly integrated by colored people, called "CorosdeClave", and its rhythm was the vertical hemiola, also utilized in the ternary...
calls 'clave motif,' is based on the decorated version of the three-side of the clave rhythm." The following guajeo example is based on a clave motif....
(1981). Diccionario de la Música Cubana. La Habana: Editorial Letras Cubanas. ISBN 959-10-0048-0. Peñalosa, David (2009). The Clave Matrix; Afro-Cuban...
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than strumming (rasgueado). There are three percussion instruments: the clave, the güiro and the guayo (also a scraper, but of metal). Singers form themselves...
Havana. At age 14 he lived in El Cerro district of Havana and sang in corosdeclave, the precursor ensembles of the guaguancó. There he earned the nickname...
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