The term used for the
hollowed bamboo piece that is mounted and used to play Palitos patterns. The Gua-Gua is said to
"drive the ensemble."
guaguancó
One of the three Rumba styles, it is a medium to fast
style played on the tumbadoras or cajones
along with the clave, palitos, bombo and shekerés and danced traditionally by a male and a
female depicting the sexual "capture" of the
female by the male with a thrust called the Vacunáo.
guajeó
Originally the term used to
describe the repeated rhythmic figure of the Tres in the Changui and Son styles, it was later also used to desribe
the same function by the string section in the Charangas and later the Moñas of the horn
section.
guajira
A songstyle originating with
the Campesinos containing elements of the Spanish Canción and the Cuban Son. It is societally somewhat of a
parallel to the Blues of America. The lyric content is
sometimes sad or longing, nostalgic or expressing the
difficulties of an impoverished life-style.
Slang term for a Cuban
peasant woman.
guajiro
A slang term for a (male)
Cuban peasant and sometimes used as a term for a cowboy
type peasant farmer or rancher.
guapacha
A secondary rhythm step in clave-based dances, used by experienced
rhythm dancers as an accent when appropriate to the
segment of music. The break step on "2" (or in
dance count either "2" or "6") is
delayed a half beat, stepping instead on the
"and" before "3." A specific
syncopation, most frequently applied to Chachachá.
guaracha
Traditionally an ealy form
of street peasant music with satirical lyric content
somewhat in the Son
rhythm style.
Loose term for a general
medium tempo Son Montuno or little brighter style tune or
groove.
guataca
Hoe blade used in the conga de Comparsa. A hoe blade (played
with a large nail or railroad spike) used to play what
later became Cowbell accompaniments to the Rumba Columbia
and other folkloric Afro 6/8 styles. Folkloric ensembles
still use this instrument.
guayo
A larger version of the guiro.
guicharo
Term used to describe guiros with finer ridges, particularly
those found in some Puerto Rican styles.
guira
The term used to describe
the metal scraper (guiro, scraped
with a metal fork or Afro comb) used in the Dominican
Merengue style.
guiro
A serrated gourd scraped
with a stick, very popular in Afro-Cuban, as well as
other Latin American countries, music. (Instrument)
Calabash gourd with ridges carved
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