Tresillo (disambiguation)

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Tresillo can be :

  • In typography, tresillo is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet invented in the 16th century in order to be use in Mayan languages.
  • In music, tresillo is the Spanish word for a triplet in music, that is, a group of three notes to be played in the time of two of the same kind. In the vernacular of Latin music, tresillo refers to three strokes in duple-pulse structure (2/4, 2/2, or 4/4), which correlate to a triplet.
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