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Cinquillo logo #10101) Cuban music
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Cinquillo

Cinquillo logo #21000 A cinquillo is a typical Cuban/Caribbean rhythmic cell, used in the Cuban contradanza (the `habanera`) and the danzón. The figure is also a common bell pattern found throughout sub-Saharan Africa. It consists of an eighth, a sixteenth, an eighth, a sixteenth, and an eighth note. Play Placing this rhythm in a 2/4 measure, it obtains a strongly s.....
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