Peace In Colombia
Colombian Instruments and Music
Everybody deeply appreciate the great treasure that is Colombian musical instruments, such as Colombian tiple, made in coral wood, with clear lines and awesome authentic color, with twelve metal strings arranged in four courses. Any professional or student guitarist will find it easy to use in Colombian folk music, and in many Latin American songs. Musicians can use it in Latin American folk jazz music, but also in original songs as well. Tipleís ethereal and clear sound is also used in classic guitar music creations.
Colombian Cuatro is concert grade guitar; it is made of slices and blocks from curly maple. It has a violin shape and has a great pitch accuracy and finish. The ëseisí is a hybrid of the cuatro and a supplementary sixth course tunes a fourth below the usual fifth bottom course. It is also a very popular Colombian musical instrument. This feature allows an expanded bass range. It can be used also for guitar intervals as well, and it makes a awesome music, It sounds as a guitar, but sweeter, faster and louder.
Original Colombian music instruments
Spanish and African traditions are strongly represented in Colombian music. Traditional quena, a king of flute, and Spanish guitar are very popular. Colombian bandolina has fifteen strings and its sound is beautiful, sweet and clear. It is usually made by hand, of unexcelled quality. The marimba is another Colombian musical instrument; it looks like a xylophone and its keys are made in wood. The arpa is a local version of the harp, the guassa is a rattle. The music just makes you want to dance, great for staying in shape or losing weight. You can add great dancing exercise to your medifast diet when you start it, motivational music and your medifast coupon code, and you are ready to go. The songs from the Pacific coast are using drums and are tinged with Spanish influence. Due to the Spanish influence, piano music is also very popular in Colombia. The newest music style in Colombia is valenato, based on the European accordion.
Many Colombian musical instruments are beautifully crafted, from the ancient times until our century. The charango, a kind of guitar made in wood, the vessel whistle, the erkencho, a kind of clarinet, the chirimia, an oboe, are carefully made and original Colombian folk music sounds great with them. There are six ethnic zones in Colombia; the music is a hybrid between Indian roots and Spanish traditions. In some regions, there is also a strong african influence. Guitars, flutes and drums are always necessary; in the Caribbean zone the most important Colombian musical instrument is gaita, a kind of oboe. In Colombia, music is a tradition. There is a habit to pass folk songs from one generation to the other.
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HUGO RAFAEL CHÁVEZ FRÍAS, President of Venezuela, said that the night before, he had attended a screening of Oliver Stones new movie, South of the Border, in which Bolivias President Evo Morales was shown chewing coca leaves and saying, Coke is not the same as coca. Other Presidents of Latin America had been shown in various contexts, and the movie even captured United States President Barack Obama in Trinidad, chatting with a group of us, his hand held out, his face smiling. He mentioned the film because it could help decipher several enigmas of the times, chief among them the ideological warfare currently under way. Indeed, a geopolitical revolution was under way — a moral, spiritual, comprehensive and necessary revolution, he said. After centuries during which millions of people in Latin America and the Caribbean had suffered, the world had come to this moment. The revolution marked the beginning of a world renewed and it would only grow with the passing of time. As a result of that revolution, the twenty-first century would be the century of socialism. Even Albert Einstein had concluded that the only way for the human species to live on the planet was through socialism. Capitalism was actually a road to ruin, not allowing for change. By contrast, the socialism of South America, which was Indian-American as well as Bolivarian, was a heroic system that had to be made anew. Noting that former United States President John F. Kennedy had, just days before his …
Read MoreUN speech September 23,2009 President Hugo Chavez part six
HUGO RAFAEL CHÁVEZ FRÍAS, President of Venezuela, said that the night before, he had attended a screening of Oliver Stones new movie, South of the Border, in which Bolivias President Evo Morales was shown chewing coca leaves and saying, Coke is not the same as coca. Other Presidents of Latin America had been shown in various contexts, and the movie even captured United States President Barack Obama in Trinidad, chatting with a group of us, his hand held out, his face smiling. He mentioned the film because it could help decipher several enigmas of the times, chief among them the ideological warfare currently under way. Indeed, a geopolitical revolution was under way — a moral, spiritual, comprehensive and necessary revolution, he said. After centuries during which millions of people in Latin America and the Caribbean had suffered, the world had come to this moment. The revolution marked the beginning of a world renewed and it would only grow with the passing of time. As a result of that revolution, the twenty-first century would be the century of socialism. Even Albert Einstein had concluded that the only way for the human species to live on the planet was through socialism. Capitalism was actually a road to ruin, not allowing for change. By contrast, the socialism of South America, which was Indian-American as well as Bolivarian, was a heroic system that had to be made anew. Noting that former United States President John F. Kennedy had, just days before his …
President Obama and President Álvaro Uribe Vélez of Colombia talk to the press after meeting in the Oval Office on June 29, 2009. (Public Domain)
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HUGO RAFAEL CHÁVEZ FRÍAS, President of Venezuela, said that the night before, he had attended a screening of Oliver Stones new movie, South of the Border, in which Bolivias President Evo Morales was shown chewing coca leaves and saying, Coke is not the same as coca. Other Presidents of Latin America had been shown in various contexts, and the movie even captured United States President Barack Obama in Trinidad, chatting with a group of us, his hand held out, his face smiling. He mentioned the film because it could help decipher several enigmas of the times, chief among them the ideological warfare currently under way. Indeed, a geopolitical revolution was under way — a moral, spiritual, comprehensive and necessary revolution, he said. After centuries during which millions of people in Latin America and the Caribbean had suffered, the world had come to this moment. The revolution marked the beginning of a world renewed and it would only grow with the passing of time. As a result of that revolution, the twenty-first century would be the century of socialism. Even Albert Einstein had concluded that the only way for the human species to live on the planet was through socialism. Capitalism was actually a road to ruin, not allowing for change. By contrast, the socialism of South America, which was Indian-American as well as Bolivarian, was a heroic system that had to be made anew. Noting that former United States President John F. Kennedy had, just days before his …
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Santiago Garcia, master theatre-maker, speaks about the difficulties of creating peace in Colombia, and how theatre his work has tried to investigate this history of this problem.
Read MoreUN speech September 23,2009 President Hugo Chavez part four
HUGO RAFAEL CHÁVEZ FRÍAS, President of Venezuela, said that the night before, he had attended a screening of Oliver Stones new movie, South of the Border, in which Bolivias President Evo Morales was shown chewing coca leaves and saying, Coke is not the same as coca. Other Presidents of Latin America had been shown in various contexts, and the movie even captured United States President Barack Obama in Trinidad, chatting with a group of us, his hand held out, his face smiling. He mentioned the film because it could help decipher several enigmas of the times, chief among them the ideological warfare currently under way. Indeed, a geopolitical revolution was under way — a moral, spiritual, comprehensive and necessary revolution, he said. After centuries during which millions of people in Latin America and the Caribbean had suffered, the world had come to this moment. The revolution marked the beginning of a world renewed and it would only grow with the passing of time. As a result of that revolution, the twenty-first century would be the century of socialism. Even Albert Einstein had concluded that the only way for the human species to live on the planet was through socialism. Capitalism was actually a road to ruin, not allowing for change. By contrast, the socialism of South America, which was Indian-American as well as Bolivarian, was a heroic system that had to be made anew. Noting that former United States President John F. Kennedy had, just days before his …
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