Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.

Gaita is a style of Venezuelan folk music from Maracaibo in Zulia State. According to Joan Corominas it may come from gaits the Gothic word for goat which is the skin generally used for the membrane of the furro instrument. Other instruments used in gaita include maracas cuatro charrasca and tambora (Venezuelan drum).

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Gaita Zuliana"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.