Claves vs Clave - What's the difference?
claves | clave |
(musical instruments) Claves are a percussion instrument, consisting of two sticks or blocks, in which one is struck against the other in order to produce a sound.
(archaic) (cleave)
* , Genesis, 22:3
* , Ruth 1:14
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(musical instruments) One half of a set of claves, a percussion instrument consisting of two sticks, one of which is used to strike the other.
(music) A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.
In musical instruments terms the difference between claves and clave
is that claves is plural of lang=en Claves are a percussion instrument, consisting of two sticks or blocks, in which one is struck against the other in order to produce a sound while clave is one half of a set of claves, a percussion instrument consisting of two sticks, one of which is used to strike the other.As a verb clave is
past tense of cleave.claves
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(wikipedia claves)Noun
(en-plural noun)Usage notes
One generally speaks of playing "the claves"; the singular form is seldom used.See also
* rhythm sticksAnagrams
* English plurals ----clave
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Etymology 1
Verb
(head)- And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
- And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.