Basque Country Music of Spain

The very well-known type of Basque music is known after the dance trikitixa, which is based on the accordion and tambourine, Kepa Junkera and Joseba Tapia were the renowned artists. Largely acceptance traditional instruments include txistu (a tabor pipe like that of Occitaninagaloubet recorder), alboka (a double clarinet played in round-breathing method, like the other Mediterranean instruments such as launeddas) and txalaparta (a big xylophone, like to the Romanian toaca and it is played with two artists in a captivating game-show). In many sessions of the Iberian peninsula, there are ritual dances with sticks, swords and arches formed from the vegetation, other renowned dances are the jota, fandango and 5/8 zortziko.

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Basques on both parts of the Spanish-French territory have been popular for their singing since the middle-ages, and a flow of Basque nationalism during in the end of the 19^th century which led to the creation of the vast Basques-dialect choirs that assisted preserve their dialect and songs. Even during the harassment of the Francisco Franco period from 1939 to 1975, when the Basque dialect was outlaw, folk songs and dances were disobediently preserved in secret, and they remain to flourish in spite the fame of commercially-marked pop music.