Songs of milking

The milking songs are those associate to the milking of cows with the purpose of tranquilizing the animal during the task. It is custom in Venezuela to give name him to the cows. The milk man flame to the cow by its name and improvises verses of eight syllables in which includes the name of the animal. These songs are of free rate and are governed by the accents of the text. They are used in his interpretation great variety of melodys. The laborer can intone new songs or adapt other ones.

Songs of Arreo

The songs of Arreo are those associate to the work of conduction of the cattle through the plain for its transfer to the commercialization or pasturing site. In Venezuela it is known with the cabestrero name the laborer who is in charge to make this work. During the way the men sing so that the cattle stays calm while it advances. Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera

Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera

Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera, composer, teacher, musician, folklorist and writer, was born in San Cristóbal, Táchira, August 23, 1913. He lived his first years in the Venezuelan city of San Cristóbal. Between 1919 and 1921 he lived, with his parents and siblings, successively in Cúcuta, San Luis and...

 explains that from the musical point of view, these songs are characterized by shouts, long notes that acquire certain quejumbroso accent sometimes. These are songs of capella, without support

Songs of coffee harvesting

These songs accompany the task by coffee harvesting. During the accomplishment of this task, men and women sing in a species of contrapunteo galante, according to professor Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera

Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera

Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera, composer, teacher, musician, folklorist and writer, was born in San Cristóbal, Táchira, August 23, 1913. He lived his first years in the Venezuelan city of San Cristóbal. Between 1919 and 1921 he lived, with his parents and siblings, successively in Cúcuta, San Luis and...

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Songs of trapiche

They are the songs that accompany the work by sugar cane milling in trapiche for the production of panela or papelón. These songs, characteristic of old trapiches pulled ahead by oxen, have in their verses exclamaciones that animate to the animal to continue the work.

Songs of Pilón

They are the songs that accompany the work of pounding the corn, robust fundamentally feminine task, in which two women battered the grain within a pylon with two wood maces for the manufacture of the mass for the preparation of round corn loaves. Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera

Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera

Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera, composer, teacher, musician, folklorist and writer, was born in San Cristóbal, Táchira, August 23, 1913. He lived his first years in the Venezuelan city of San Cristóbal. Between 1919 and 1921 he lived, with his parents and siblings, successively in Cúcuta, San Luis and...

 explain that the rhythmical striking of the hand are accompanied by a jadeo (oy/ay). This melody is simple and of varied subjects. A very popular song of milling is known in Venezuela compiled by Luis Mariano Rivera

Luis Mariano Rivera

Luis Mariano Rivera was born on August 19, 1906, in the valley of Canchunchú, in the Sucre State of Venezuela. He was known not only as a singer, but also as a composer, poet and dramatist....

 in Sucre state

Sucre (state)

Sucre State is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Cumaná. Sucre State covers a total surface area of 11,800 km² and, in 2007, had an estimated population of 916,600.-Municipalities and municipal seats:...

 whose letter says: io, io, dale duro a ese pilón...

Songs of launderers

Characteristic of the Yaracuy

Yaracuy

Yaracuy State is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. It is bordered by Falcón in the north, in the west by Lara, in the south by Portuguesa and Cojedes and in the east by Cojedes and Carabobo....

 state, in the neighborhoods of the San Javier river, the women accompany the work of wash clothes with this songs. Professor Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera

Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera

Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera, composer, teacher, musician, folklorist and writer, was born in San Cristóbal, Táchira, August 23, 1913. He lived his first years in the Venezuelan city of San Cristóbal. Between 1919 and 1921 he lived, with his parents and siblings, successively in Cúcuta, San Luis and...

 says that these songs are known popularly like shouts by their force. But in spite of it they are pleasant melodys .

Songs of pregón

These songs are used in the urban centers by traveling salesmen to offer their products and services of house in house. Thus, ices-cream dealer, shoemakers and grinders of knives, walk by the streets intoning his announce.

Source

• Atlas de Tradiciones de Venezuela, Fundación Bigott
  Fundación Bigott
  Fundación Bigott is a private institution in Venezuela; it is dedicated to "preserving and making known making known the values of traditional culture".- History :...
  
  , 1998, and Sonidos del Folklore