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Aguinaldo is a folk
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
 genre
Genre

A genre is a loose set of criteria for a category of composition; the term is often used to categorize literature and speech, but is also used for any other Art#Art forms or utterance....
 of Christmas
Christmas

Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
 music, which originates from Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
 and is based on an archaic form of Spanish
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
 christmas carol
Christmas carol

File:Youth Choir in Healdsburg.jpgA Christmas carol is a Carol whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, or the winter season in general and which are traditionally sung in the period before Christmas and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ....
. Aguinaldo music is often performed by what is called parrandas—a casual group of people, often family or friends, who go from house to house.

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Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
, the word aguinaldo means a gift and also refers to a genre of Christmas
Christmas

Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
 music.






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Aguinaldo is a folk
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
 genre
Genre

A genre is a loose set of criteria for a category of composition; the term is often used to categorize literature and speech, but is also used for any other Art#Art forms or utterance....
 of Christmas
Christmas

Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
 music, which originates from Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
 and is based on an archaic form of Spanish
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
 christmas carol
Christmas carol

File:Youth Choir in Healdsburg.jpgA Christmas carol is a Carol whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, or the winter season in general and which are traditionally sung in the period before Christmas and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ....
. Aguinaldo music is often performed by what is called parrandas—a casual group of people, often family or friends, who go from house to house.

Venezuelan aguinaldo

the Aguinalderos
In Venezuela
Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
, the word aguinaldo means a gift and also refers to a genre of Christmas
Christmas

Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
 music. Aguinaldo music is performed throughout the country, not only to commemorate Jesus
Jesus

Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and is revered by most Christian churches as the Son of God and the Incarnation ....
 but for the joy of Christmas. In different regions, it is accompanied by different musical instruments.

Aguinaldo is the most widespread Christmas musical genre. In many Venezuelan towns, musicians sing in front of the cross
Cross

A cross is a geometrical figure consisting of two lines or bars perpendicular to each other, dividing one or two of the lines in half. The lines usually run vertically and horizontally; if they run diagonally, the design is technically termed a saltire....
 and the pesebre (nativity scene). Aguinaldo music figures into the celebration of the Pastores de San Joaquín, and is common in the Paradura del niño celebrated in the states of Táchira and Trujillo
Trujillo (state)

Estado Trujillo is one of the 23 states States of Venezuela into which Venezuela is divided.The state capital is Trujillo, Venezuela.Trujillo State covers a total surface area of 7,400 km? and, in 2007, had an estimated population of 711,400....
.

Aguinaldos often have recognizable melodies of old carols, but set them to different rhythms and use novel instruments. It is for that reason that people talk about the evolution of aguinaldo through síncopas (syncopation
Syncopation

In music, syncopation includes a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected in that they deviate from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beat in a meter ....
). Aguinaldos use the typical Christmas ensemble (parranda
Parranda

Parranda or Parranda de aguinaldo are musical sorts, from the coast zone of the states Aragua and Carabobo, in Venezuela, where the tambora becomes present as accompanying instrument, with an important Afro-Venezuelan influence....
 navideña): the violin
Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
, clarinet
Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
, bandolín, and even accordion
Accordion

The accordion is a portable box-shaped musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox....
-like instruments. These instruments dominate the prelude and interlude and may duplicate the melody of the song. But the richest aguinaldo music also includes charrasca, chineco, the triangle, drums of one and two patches, panderos, furruco, the cuatro
Cuatro

Cuatro is Spanish language for the 4 . It may also refer to:* Cuatro , the fourth album by thrash metal band Flotsam and Jetsam .* Cuatro , Latin American Instrument, it was shaped to look like a guitar but with four strings....
, the cinco, sometimes the guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
, and tiple.

Aguinaldos generally have six verses. Some verses are composed beforehand, while others are improvised according to the circumstances.

Trinidadian aguinaldo

Aguinaldo or Serenal is a music genre used in Parang
Parang

Parang is a type of music with Caribbean and Latin American cultural influences. The word is derived from the Spanish word parranda, meaning 'merry-making' or 'a group of serenaders'....
 (Parranda) a type of Christmas music that come to Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an island country in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American country of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles....
 from Venezuela
Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
. Parranderos announce their arrival in song and seek to gain entry to the homes of family and friends to relate the story of the birth of Christ, and to share in the joy of the message of Peace on Earth and Goodwill to all men.

See also

  • music of Puerto Rico
    Music of Puerto Rico

    The music of Puerto Rico has been influenced by the African, Ta?no Indians and the Spanish people, and has become very popular across the Caribbean and across the globe....
  • Venezuela
    Venezuela

    Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
  • Venezuelan music


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