Rousseau biografia corta de pablo
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1. Introduction
“The viola is the heart of Brazilian music [...] gave form to the melodies and cadences of the poetics that slowly defined the musical profile of the nation. If the first Brazilian [...] was the Indian, who played rattles and bamboo flutes, the second was the caipira ‘holding’ the viola” (Nepomuceno, 1999, p. 55).1
When the Jesuits arrived in Brazil during the government of Tomé de Souza in 1549, the systematic entrance of European musical instruments into Brazilian territory began, one being the Portuguese viola,2 an instrument similar to the gitarr. The influence of the traditional Portuguese viola in Brazilian culture is undeniable. Since colonial times it has been used in many contexts and considered one of the mainstays of Brazilian music. In the sixteenth century, the viola was played to convert the natives to Christianity as part of the orquestra jesuítica (jesuitic ensemble), in which Portuguese melodies were mixed with Indian ones
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Primeros viajes de exploración científica
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Juan Pablo Duarte
Dominican Republic's Father of the Nation (1813–1876)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Duarte and the second or maternal family name is Díez.
Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez (January 26, 1813 – July 15, 1876)[1] was a Dominican military leader, writer, activist, and nationalist politician who was the foremost of the Founding Fathers of the Dominican Republic and bears the title of Father of the Nation. As one of the most celebrated figures in Dominican history, Duarte is considered a folk hero and revolutionary visionary in the modern Dominican Republic, who along with military generals Ramón Matías Mella and Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, organized and promoted La Trinitaria, a secret society that eventually led to the Dominican revolt and independence from Haitian rule in 1844 and the start of the Dominican War of Independence.
Born into a middle-upper class family in 1813, his childhood was engulfed in several admi