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An Old Love

Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban - USA

Cristóbal Díaz-Ayala

Combined Index of Abbreviations for Musical Genres and Terms, Instruments, Nationalities, Countries, and Cities

The Discography is organized in alphabetical order by performer. A performer can be a singer, a soloist or a group of musicians, from a duo to a symphony orchestra. The discography includes:

Normally indexes are located at the end of a work. But in this case, in which the need to economize space is at a premium and abbreviations are paramount, we have deemed it germane to include three different indexes for this work; this one, and two others, one of abbreviations for composers and another for record company abbreviations.

None of these indexes refer to a definite page number; instead their purpose is to aid in reading the discographic entries.

This first index contains words and abbreviations that are used broadly in the text of biographical notes at the beginning of the entry for performers and/or in the details for each discographic entry. For example, the initials for musical genre go after the title of a song. It's true, in many cases that information is missing, because it does not appear in the source, the recording itself.

This index contains, jointly and by alphabetical order, the included words and their abbreviation. This is so because the reader needs to freely use both sets of information. If, for example, you find the abbreviation "acn", you will want to know that it corresponds to the word accordion. But, say, if you are a player or great admirer of the instrument, you might want to know which initials to look for to distinguish recordings in which accordions are used. If the initials and the name are one after the other in alphabetical order, as is the case with "acn-acordeón", it will only have one entry. On the other hand, bongos and its initial "bg", which do not immediately follow each other in the alphabetic order, have separate entries.

Words that are not abbreviated, because they are four-letters long, are included anyway so that the reader knows they are not abbreviations, but to make that clear, the word is repeated to ensure it is not an abbreviation. For example, "afro" appears as "afro: afro".

ac:acompañamiento de
acn:acordeón
afro:afro
ag:aguinaldo
al:alegrías
Arg:Argentina
ar:argentino(a)
aria:aria
arr:arreglo
b:bolero
ba:bajo acústico
bal:balada
bam:bambuco
ban:bandurria
bar:barítono
barc:barcarola
bb:bomba
bch:bachata
Be:Berlín
be:bajo eléctrico
beg:beguine
bg:bongó
bjo:banjo
bl:blues
bn:bossa nova
Bo:Bolivia
bo:boliviano(a)
Br:Brasil
br:brasilero(a)
bt:batanga
ba:batería
bug:bugalú
c:canción
ca:circa (cerca de)
can:cantante
cand:candombe
cap:capricho
car:caribeño(a)
carn:carnavalito
cdas:cuerdas
cas:casete
CD:Compact Disc
ce:cello
cg:conga
ch:cha cha chá
char:charleston
Chg:Chicago
chi:chileno(a)
chr:charanga
ci:cifra
cil:cilindro
cl:clarinete
clp:calipso
cls:claves (instrumento)
clv:clave (género)
cmp:comparsa
Co:Colombia
co:colombiano(a)
com:cómico
con:cornetín, corneta
cop:copla
cor:corrido
coro:coro
cos:costarricense
cp:cuplé
cri:criolla
ct:canto, cantado
cto:cuarteto
ctro:cuatro (instr)
CU:Cuba
cu:cubano(a)
cum:cumbia
dec:décima
decl:declamado
des:descarga
dia:diálogo
dir:director
do:dominicano(a)
DR:derechos reservados
dr:drums
duo:dúo
dz:danzón
dza:danza
dzt:danzonete
E:Europa
ec:ecuatoriano(a)
Es:España
es:español(a)
est:estilo
EU:Estados Unidos
eu:estadounidense
fado:fado
fant:fantasía
fg:fandango
fgll:fandanguillo
fl:flauta
flam:flamenco
fox-trot:ft
fr:francés(a)
Fri:Francia
frr:farruca
ft:fox-trot
gar:garrotín
gato:gato
gg:guaguancó
gj:guajira
go-go:go-go
gp:guapacha
gr:güiro
gt:guitarra
gta:gaita
gu:guaracha
guat:guatemalteco(a)
H:Habana
h:habanera
ha:haitiano(a)
hab:hablado
hi:histórico
ho:hondureño(a)
hua:huapango
hum:humorístico
Hy:Hollywood
ing:Inglés, Inglaterra
ins:instrumental
it:italiano(a)
j:jota
ja:jarana
jl:jaleo
jo:joropo
jz:jazz
L:Londres
l:letra
LA:Los Angeles
la:laúd
lam:lamento
lat:latino
LP:larga duración, long playing
lto:lento
m:música
mar:maracas
mb:mambo
mch:marcha
md:mandolina
me:mejicano(a)
Me:México
meb:merecumbé
mer:merengue
mi:milonga
Mia:Miami
mon:monólogo
mos:mosaicos
moz:mozambique
mr:moruno
mt:montuno
my:mapeyé
mz:mazurca
ne:negro(a), negroide
ni:nicaragüense
no ed:no editado
ña:ñáñigo(a)
or:oriental
org:órgano
orq:orquesta
P:París
p:piano
pa:parodia
pan:panameño(a)
pand:pandereta
pch:pachanga
pd:paso doble
Pe:Perú
pe:peruano(a)
perc:percusión
pcu:punto cubano
pg:paraguayo(a)
pi:piano
pk:polka
pgj:punto guajiro
pl:plena
plg:plegaria
pllo:pasillo
pm:poema
pk:polka
por:porro
pp:potpourrí
PR:Puerto Rico
pr:puertorriqueño(a)
prg:pregón
ps:pasaje
pu:punto
qto:quinteto
r:rumba
rch:ranchera
rk:rock
ro:romanza
rt:ritmo, ritmico
rd:República Dominicana, dominicano
s:son
SA:San Antonio
sax a:sax alto
sax b:sax barítono
sax c:sax tenor
sb:samba
sch:schottis
seis:seis
ser:serenata
sh:shake
sim:simalé
SJ:Sanjuanito
sl:salsa
slow:slow
ste:sonsonete
sto:santo
sv:salvadoreño(a)
sucu:sucusuco
tam:tamborera
tb:trombón
tbt:tamborito
ten:tenor
tg:tango
tgll:tanguillo
tim:timbal
tn:tonada
tnll:tonadilla
tp:trompeta
tq:toque
tr:tradicional
trop:tropical
ts:two step
tw:twist
tumb:tumbadora
UR:Uruguay
ur:uruguayo(a)
v:vals
va:vallenato
Ve:Venezuela
ve:venezolano(a)
vc:violoncello
vi:villancico
vil:violín
vin:violín
vo:vocal
y:yambú
z:zamba
za:zarzuela
zr:zambra