The Music of Castile, Madrid and Leon in Spain

The vast inland area, Castile, Leon and Madrid were CeltiBerain country before its annexation and cultural laicization by the Roman Territory but it is mostly doubtful that anything from the musical customs of the Celtic year has lived. Ever then, the region has been a musical melting pot; which include French, Moorish, Gypsy, Jewish, Roman and Visigothic influences but the very important effects were the longstanding and remaining ones from the surrounding Spanish areas as well as from Portugal to the west. Regions within the Castile and Leone usually incline to have more musical similarity with other neighbouring areas with other, more faraway, sessions of the Castile and Leon. This has given the area a locally different musical custom.

Jota is renowned, but it distinctively slow in Castile and Leon, unlike its more strengthens Aragonese form. Instrumentation also differs much from the one in Aragon. The Northern Leon that shares dialects connection with an area in northern Portugal and Spanish areas of Asturias and Galicia, also shares their musical effects. Here, the gaita (bagpipe) and tabor pipe playing customs of dance music for dulzaina (shawm) and rondalla orchestras. Renowned rhythms included 5/8 charrada and circle dances, jota and habas verdes. As in many other sessions of the Iberian Peninsula, ritual dances include paloteos (known as stick dances). Salamanca is popular as the place of tuna, a serenade played with guitars and tambourines, mainly by students dressed in medieval clothing. Madrid is renowned for its chotis music, an indigenous variation of the 19^th century schottische dance. Flamenco, though not seen as local, it is renowned among some urbanites but is primarily confined to Madrid.