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baguala

baguala noun: a genre of folk music of northeastern Argentina.

Noun

baguala (uncountable)

  1. A genre of folk music of northeastern Argentina.
    • The vidala is our form of the blues. The baguala and the vidala are our musical vanguard, even though they're thousands of years old. The youth of the world are searching for a cry and a Song with a cosmic force.1978, Sing Out
    • Thus, even today we can see the survival of these basic modes in the tritonic scale of the baguala musical genre of the Inca region, which uses only the major chord notes to generate its melodies.2006, Goldberg: Early Music Magazine

Origin of baguala

From Spanish baguala.

Questions about baguala

What does baguala mean?
Baguala means a genre of folk music of northeastern Argentina.
What part of speech is baguala?
Baguala is a noun.

Words near baguala in the dictionary

  1. Bagthorpe with Barmer
  2. bagtikan
  3. bagtikans
  4. Bagu
  5. bagua
  6. baguala
  7. baguazhang
  8. bague
  9. bagues
  10. baguet
  11. baguets

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