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Exposición Inglés 25052019
Exposición Inglés 25052019
Música maya
La marimba
Music of Guatemala
The music of Guatemala brings together a wide range of styles from different backgrounds.
Through the different historical stages a musical and cultural richness of very own
characteristics and of universal validity is manifested.
Mayan music
The marimba
This instrument is part of classical music and our national symbols, is an idiophone of the
family of xylophones that has had a remarkable development from the original cultural
model. The marimba of arco is distinguished, a portable instrument with a diatonic keyboard
provided with jícara resonators; the simple marimba, which is already stationary, being
supported on wooden legs, and occasionally provided with sound boxes built of wood; and
the double or chromatic marimba, invented in 1894, which has in addition to the original
diatonic keyboard (representing the white keys of the piano) an additional keyboard with the
notes equivalent to the black keys of the piano, with which the scale can be reproduced
chromatic of twelve sounds.