cataluña traditional music

 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 17^th 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

Nadales are traditional songs, like carols, that refer to Christmas (Nadal) or winter in general.

 

 

 

sardanas The 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.

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 bastoners The 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

 

 

 

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