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    The cobla (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkobːlə], plural cobles) is a traditional music ensemble of Catalonia, and in Northern Catalonia in France. It is generally...
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  • A cobla esparsa (Old Occitan [ˈkobla esˈpaɾsa] literally meaning "scattered stanza") in Old Occitan is the name used for a single-stanza poem in troubadour...
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  • century was its dominance challenged by a growing number of poets writing coblas esparsas. The canso became, in Old French, the grand chant and, in Italian...
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    dances are known as ballades. The accompanying orchestra of 11 people, a cobla, includes 10 wind instruments and a bass. One person plays the flabiol (a...
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    from being in the cobla for the performance of sardanes, the flabiol is also found in the reduced version of the cobla known as cobla of three quarters...
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    Rusiñol. He showed great interest in the sound of the cobla and attended several concerts of the Cobla Barcelona. He also collaborated with various Catalan...
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    Gran Teatre del Liceu. During the same stay, he attended a concert by the Cobla Barcelona at the Palau de la Música Catalana. According to the critic Joan...
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    Xeremia (section La cobla)
    tabor pipe) and tambor or tamboret (drum). Coblas may take the form of: Mitja cobla, or media cobla ("half cobla"): these are composed of one xeremia and...
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    University Press – via Wikisource. Three-string double bass in the cobla band Website of Cobla Baix Llobregat "Bill Bentgen – 5 String Basses". Billbentgen...
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    composer from Catalonia who consolidated the long sardana and reformed the cobla, adding instruments to give it its current formation. He is considered the...
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