There are too many tipes of traditional music in cataluña but first I put a map of Cataluña´s location
the typical instruments
Flaviol :In most of the Catalan-speaking regions it designates a straight flute, not a transverse flute, with many local variants.
Gralla :The gralla is a wind instrument comprising a 30 cm long wooden
tube that amplifies the sound produced by its double reed. There are two
types of gralla, the seca (dry) and the dolça, (sweet) which are distinguished by their sound.
tenora :The tenora is a double-reeded oboe-like wind instrument,, which was played across Europe from the Middle Ages up to the 17th
century. Since then it has envolved independently in Catalonia, where
it has become one of the instruments most representative of indigenous
music and the true star of the music for sardana dances.
diatonic accordion :The accordion is a wind instrument with hard metal reeds, bellows and a
keyboard. There are two broad types of accordion today: the more
primitive diatonic version and the more developed chromatic version. In
folk music, especially music with roots in the Pyrenees,
Cornamusa:The cornamusa or sac de gemecs is a bagpipe-like instrument from the aerophone family of instruments, comprising a small leather bag which serves as an air sac
typical dances and songs
Nadalesare traditional songs, like carols, that refer to Christmas (Nadal) or winter in general.
sardanasThe
sardana is a traditional circular dance of Catalonia. A number of people made a circle holding their hands and looking to the
center, dancing in circle left to right with a stable time, often slow
and concentrated.
bastonersThe colles de bastoners are groups of dancers who perform balls de bastons,
stick dances. The dance, understood to mean a whole series of dances
using one stick or two, struck in time with music, can be found all
round Cataluña
catalan rumba;The Catalan rumba is a genre of music that developed in Barcelona´s Romani community beginning in the 1950s and 1960s. Its rhythms are derived from the Andalusian flamenco rumba with influences from cuban music and rock and roll
1: traditional customs, tales, sayings, dances, or art forms preserved among a people
a little of history
Folk is a term used to describe all sorts of musical, oral and
cultural traditions from specific regions and societies around the
world. Folk comes from the German word ‘volk’ meaning ‘the people’ and
folk music is often thought of as being the music belonging to ‘the
people’. It has been historically used as a reflective term to
distinguish certain types of music from those associated with
institutions such as royal courts, the church, or Western classical
music.
spain :spanish music is often associated with traditional styles such as flamenco and classical guitar. But there is more than this