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- adjective Resembling a
tambourine or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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You can hear what persists of indigenous musical forms on the disc called "Sounds and Songs of Everyday Life": whoop-and-holler work songs to the accompaniment of axes and machetes, a gentle, throaty improvised female duet to greet the afternoon cicadas (which serve as a tambourinelike backup), a jew's-harp made of bamboo played with a rock-steady, almost techno-sounding beat.
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Plena was originally a narrative style, and its lyrics, which often reflected current political or cultural happenings, could turn the music into an important avenue of communication; its sound was defined by elaborate polyrhythms played on tambourinelike hand drums called pandeiros and augmented by a scraped gourd called a guiro.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Plena was originally a narrative style, and its lyrics, which often reflected current political or cultural happenings, could turn the music into an important avenue of communication; its sound was defined by elaborate polyrhythms played on tambourinelike hand drums called pandeiros and augmented by a scraped gourd called a guiro.
Chicago Reader 2010
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