Folk Music of Venezuela
Another part of very renowned music in Venezuela is known as the Gaita Zuliana. This genre derived from the area of Zulia State and it is ...
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Another
part of very renowned music in Venezuela is known as the Gaita Zuliana. This
genre derived from the area of Zulia State and it is very famous during in the
Christmas period. The gaita united the Aguinaldo follows the national
representation of the Venezuelan Christmas. In the east, the malaguena, galeron
and punto follows the velorios de cruz de mayo, (religious custom, that is
celebrated during in the 3 may in honor to the Christian cross). In the
Venezuelan Andes, the Venezuelan bambuco which is an indigenous difference of
the bambuco, other types include the following such as popo and the Venezuelan
waltz.
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Other
types of the Venezuelan traditional music are the extremely recorded and
researched due to the composition of Caracas-based Fundacion Bigott.
African-originated drumming (which includes the multiple beats, such as the
sangueo, tamborera and parranda) is probably the best recorded musical type.
Fundacion Bigott has also produced orchestras such as Grupo Madera, Huracan de
Fuego and Un Solo Pueblo. These include more experimental combination of
musicians blend rumba, joropo, Latin jazz, Venezuelan folk songs and other
types of Latin American music.
Venezuelan
calypso music which also include the Calypso de El Callao, which was introduced
from Trinidad in the 1880s by settlers coming during a gold rush, has own
unique beats and word pattern.
Salsa
is another imported genre from the Cuban-American, which has produced several
local artists, like Oscar D’Leon. Dominica merengue and the Latin pop
performances include the following such as Los Melodicos, The Porfi Jimenez Orchestras
and Billo’s Caracas Boys.
