cuarteto
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Cuarteto (), sometimes called cuartetazo, is a musical genre born in Córdoba, Argentina.
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- music of Argentina
- Country
- Argentina
- Country of origin
- Argentina
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- inception
- 1940-01-01
- Commons category
- Cuarteto (music genre of Argentine)
- heritage designation
- intangible cultural heritage
- intangible cultural heritage status
- Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
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Cuarteto (), sometimes called cuartetazo, is a musical genre born in Córdoba, Argentina.
The roots of the cuarteto ensemble are in Italian and Spanish dance ensembles. The name was coined because the early dance-hall numbers were invariably four-piece bands (violin-piano-accordion-bass).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cuarteto” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.