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Banda is a brass-based form of traditional Mexican music. Image of a trumpet. ...
The music of Mexico is extraordinarily diverse and features a wide range of different musical styles. ...
Bandas play a wide variety of songs, including rancheras, corridos, cumbias, and boleros. Bandas are more widely known for their rancheras, but they also play modern pop songs and cumbias. The ranchera is a genre of the traditional music of Mexico. ...
The corrido is a popular narrative song and poetry form of the mestizo Mexican cultural area (which includes the Southern states of the United States, taken from Mexican sovereignship in the mid to late 19th. ...
Cumbia is originally a Colombian folk dance and dance music and is Colombias representative national dance and music along with vallenato. ...
The bolero is a type of dance and musical form. ...
La Banda el Recodo, Banda Jerez, El Coyote, and Julio Preciado are some of the most famous banda artists. Yolanda Pérez and Jenni Rivera are two of the few prominent female banda artists. La Banda el Recodo ( also called La Banda Sinaloense, meaning The Sinaloan Band ) is one of the most famous Mexican banda groups. ...
La Banda Jerez (officially La Número Uno Banda Jerez) is one of the most popular Mexican bandas. ...
El Coyote (pictured in brown on the upper-center) on the album cover of his CD El Rancho Grande For the fictional character, see El Coyote (fictional character). ...
Julio Preciado on the album cover of his CD Que Me Sigue la Tambora) Julio Preciado y su Banda Perla de Pacifico (Julio Preciado and his Pacific Pearl Band) is a banda singer based in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. ...
Yolanda Perez Yolanda Perez (born May 20, 1983) is a Mexican American singer who specializes in banda music. ...
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History and origins
Established in the last late 1930s in Sinaloa, a state in northern Mexico, banda music exploded in popularity in the late 1990s throughout Mexico. Its roots come from the overlapping of Mexican music with German polka music. At the time, many German-Americans lived in southern Texas. This greatly influenced northern Mexican music. Immigrants from northern Mexico brought the music to the United States. Initially popular in the southwest United States, primarily in Texas, California and Arizona, banda has followed the movement of Mexican immigrants into the Midwest United States and the rest of the country. The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ...
Sinaloa is bordered by the states of Sonora to the north, Chihuahua to the northeast, Durango to the east, and Nayarit to the south. ...
For the band, see 1990s (band). ...
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Regional definitions vary from source to source. ...
The sound of banda A typical banda is made up of brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The most notable instrument is the tambora, which is a type of bass drum with a head made from animal hide. Bandas were previously called "tamboras", named after this drum. The tambora is played in a strong and embellished manner, which provides the drive for the rest of the band. The percussion section also includes the tarola which is a snare, two other drums, cow bells, and cymbals. Banda el Recodo, the most famous banda, features 3 Trumpets, 4 clarinets, 3 valve trombones, 2 Eb alto horns, and 1 sousaphone. Like an orchestra, a banda can be organized into different sections. Brass is any alloy of copper and zinc; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses, each of which has unique properties[1]. Note that in comparison bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin. ...
A woodwind instrument is a musical instrument in which sound is produced by blowing through a mouthpiece against an edge or by a vibrating reed, and in which the pitch is varied by opening or closing holes in the body of the instrument. ...
Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ...
La Banda el Recodo ( also called La Banda Sinaloense, meaning The Sinaloan Band ) is one of the most famous Mexican banda groups. ...
The trumpet is the highest brass instrument in register, above the horn, trombone, euphonium and tuba. ...
Two soprano clarinets: a Bâ™ clarinet (left) and an A clarinet (right, with no mouthpiece). ...
Never look at the trombones. ...
Known in the U.S. as alto horn, in Germany as althorn, and in the UK as tenor horn, this brass instrument pitched in Eb has a conical bore (gradually widening), and normally uses a deep, cornet-like mouthpiece. ...
Sousaphone player in Washington Square, New York City The sousaphone is a type of tuba often used in a marching band. ...
- Bass: The lowest-pitched part is played by the tambora, accompanied by a sousaphone.
- Harmony: Two Harmonias (Eb alto horns), play chords using different rhythms depending on the style.
- Tenor: valve trombones play the lower-pitched part of the melody.
- Alto: Trumpets play the higher-pitched part of the melody.
- Soprano: Clarinets and sometimes saxophones play as "singing" instruments that may play with the voice.
- Voice: Banda el Recodo and Banda Jerez consists of trios, but many bandas also consist of dual and solo singers.
Most banda arrangements feature 3 part harmony and melodic sections which contrast the timbres of the clarinet, trumpet, and valve trombone sections. Never look at the trombones. ...
The trumpet is the highest brass instrument in register, above the horn, trombone, euphonium and tuba. ...
Two soprano clarinets: a Bâ™ clarinet (left) and an A clarinet (right, with no mouthpiece). ...
The saxophone (colloquially referred to as sax) is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece like the clarinet. ...
La Banda el Recodo ( also called La Banda Sinaloense, meaning The Sinaloan Band ) is one of the most famous Mexican banda groups. ...
La Banda Jerez (officially La Número Uno Banda Jerez) is one of the most popular Mexican bandas. ...
Bandas play many different styles including waltzes, cumbias, polkas, marches, foxtrots, rock ballads, rancheras and sones. Historically bandas were village brass bands called on to entertain the town, and would play anything from opera overtures to big band jazz.
Bandas usually have a strong percussion. The percussionists generally provide the accents and do not usually play all the time or keep a 'groove'. Often the percussionists will enter only when the singer is not singing, such as in an instrumental chorus. The groove is mostly provided by the sousaphone (or bass guitar in a few recordings) playing the bass line, and the alto horns playing sharp upbeats. Typically when a banda plays a cumbia, the alto horn players switch to Latin percussion instruments such as timbales and bongos.
Bandas generally consist of about 15 members. The number of band members may vary from 10 to 20 people. Bandas usually have a lead singer and a second voice, and occasionally a third voice. The voice often consists of a duet, but solo singers and trios are also common.
In the 90's many new bandas were so-called "technobandas" or "electrobandas", in which some or all of the horns were replaced by electric instruments. A typical technobanda will substitute electric bass for sousaphone and synthesizer for the 2 alto horns. However the bass part is still played in a style imitating a sousaphone.
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