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Spanish Folk Music

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The regional traditional music of Spain: the jota of Aragon, Galician bagpipes, Catalan sardana, Basque trikitixa, Asturian tonada and the Andalusian forms that surround flamenco. Castanets, guitar and regional dance run through it.

Spain · emerged Medieval period · peak 19th-20th century

Also called: música tradicional española, folclore español

History

Each region of the peninsula kept its own dances and songs through the centuries; nineteenth-century composers stylised them, and the twentieth-century folk revival and regional autonomies gave them new life.

What it sounds like

Beneath it: bolero español, copla, fandango, jota, jácara, muiñeira, saeta, sardana, tonada asturiana, tonadilla, trikitixa, villancico

Beside it: flamenco

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