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The music

Music has always been key to the festive events, especially in the performance of dance. A land Valencia instruments symbolic, inseparable companions of popular festivals are the dolçaina and tabal. Needless to say, and especially those of the first that, despite not having it easy, have remained to the present day where the music is "synthesized", even after the crisis sofrida to half of the last century. Today they are a large number of musicians who are to be maintained alive this root and have gone from an inheritance, for transmission to an oral active teaching on the part of understandings on the matter. A good example is the Municipal School of Tabal and Dolçaina of homes. But all this goes beyond and dolçaina has invain others, styles, and we can no longer speak of recovery, but rather for development.

For those who do not know, the dolçaina is a wind instrument, consisting of 3 parts:

Cane, the same material from which the sound is created by vibration.
The body of the timber where the tuning is controlled through a series of holes.
The tudell, part metal spout in the form of the shaft that connects to the body.

With regard to the pitch that normally used in single widgets.

The tabal is a percussion instrument, consisting of a cylindrical box with two skins tibants to cover the openings and sound with the so-called baquetes (with wooden sticks that mark the rhythm).

It requires great affinity between dolçaina and tabal in making sound different melodies. Three are the melodies that accompany the implementation of the plastic figures and human towers or increases: The foil or dance, the buried and the Dance plastic (increases and figures) better known as the Muixeranga. While the brand tabal rhythm, dolçaina stops flowing melody and the execution of the dance, or figure rising to create a whole lot that we put the chicken skin and will remove the feeling of well indoors.

The foil or dance

The melody usually open the output to the processions. Is interpreted by WidgetLand is and tabaleters is that with a bit of notice to prepare muixeranguers is placed in two rows with the candles lit. With the music marked the movements of the dancers is.

Dance plastic (figures and rises)

The melody is played in the execution of the rest of the plastic figures and human towers. The tabaleters will have to be careful and start when the pace started to organize themselves or pineapple figures and will remain until the pineapple be dissolved, the WidgetLand is, however, the melody will start when the second form height of the figure and repeat until you Download.

This piece is more representative of the entire repertoire, and also is known as the Muixeranga

The Enterro

The melody that, according to sources "is actually a Dies Irae in the Gregorian liturgical Singing" (Cano, E.2004) accompanies a mobile figure of the same name that represents the burial and Assumption of the Virgin Mary and usually carried out by entering Basilica. The widgets to make the first notes and tabaleters will start to keep a beat throughout the tune later.

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