# Cinquillo

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{{short description|Cuban/Caribbean rhythmic cell}}
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A '''cinquillo''' is a typical [Cuban](/source/Music_of_Cuba)/[Caribbean](/source/List_of_Caribbean_music_genres) rhythmic [cell](/source/cell_(music)), used in the Cuban [contradanza](/source/contradanza) (the "[habanera](/source/Habanera_(music))") and the [danzón](/source/danz%C3%B3n).<ref>Mauleón, Rebeca (1993: 51). ''Salsa Guidebook: For Piano and Ensemble''. Petaluma, California: Sher Music.</ref> The figure is also a common [bell pattern](/source/bell_pattern) found throughout [sub-Saharan](/source/Sub-Saharan_African_music_traditions) Africa. It consists of an [eighth](/source/eighth_note), a [sixteenth](/source/sixteenth_note), an eighth, a sixteenth, and an eighth note. Placing this rhythm in a [2/4](/source/duple_meter) [measure](/source/bar_(music)) produces a strongly [syncopated](/source/syncopation) character from the sustained note which replaces an articulated one on the first quarter of the second [beat](/source/beat_(music)). Cinquillo is an embellishment of the more basic pattern known as [tresillo](/source/tresillo_(rhythm)). Cinquillo is shown twice below. The first one merely displays the note values. The second one is a so-called orthographic notation, which gives an impression of the syncopated character.

<score lang="lilypond">\new RhythmicStaff {
   \clef percussion
   \time 2/4
   \repeat volta 2 { c8 c16 c r[ c c r] }
}</score>
File:Cinquillo.mid&nbsp;File:Baqueteo.mid

When followed by four unsyncopated eighth notes, it is known as the '''baqueteo'''. Like the [clave](/source/clave_(rhythm)), this forms a pair of measures, syncopated and unsyncopated. The baqueteo is in fact, is an embellishment of clave, as it contains all of that [key pattern](/source/bell_pattern)'s strokes. The baqueteo is shown below with both cells contained within a single measure.

[[File:Baqueteo-2.tif|thumb|center|350px|Basic baqueteo timbales partFile:Baqueteo-2.mid]]

The [biguine](/source/biguine) uses a cinquillo variant related to that found in other Caribbean genres.

==References==
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Category:Music of Cuba
Category:African rhythm

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