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Tambor (dance)

Tambor is a coastal Afro-Venezuelan music and dance. It is a cultural manifestation originating in the slaves from Africa.

Tambor

Tambor can refer to:

  • Tambor (dance), Afro-Venezuelan music and dance
  • Tambor, Costa Rica
  • Jeffrey Tambor (b. 1944), American actor
  • Tambor (Tower), 1998 orchestral composition by Joan Tower
Tambor (Tower)

Tambor is an orchestral composition in one movement by the American composer Joan Tower. The work was commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and was composed between September 1997 and February 1998. It was first performed on May 7, 1998, by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the conductor Mariss Jansons. The piece is dedicated Robert Moir, then artistic director for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Usage examples of "tambor".

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The Eglantine flautist continued to play, no less merry with this new entertainment, and the singer took up a tambor while the tumblers threw tricks.

Outside the tent, on the beach, the sound of fiddles and a tambor sundered our depressed silence, punctuated by rhythmic clapping from the sailors.

Before the dance was over, boys in satins carrying banners and a tiny black girl with a tambor came scurrying out of the magnolia groves to listen to the music.

Suckling pigs were spitted and cooked over a bonfire in the lower bailey, while every lad who had a hand with the pipe or the tambor made music as best he could.

The Army and Sisterhood would march, but I hoped to go horseback at least as far as the Tambors, and perhaps even over the pass into Cayd.

General Horfal-yu and the Commander had been here before, but I had never seen the Tambors, one of the wonders of the world.

They shall be driven right up over the Tambors, and this body with them.