page_title: Banda music
section_title: Traditional ensembles
hierarchical_section_title: Banda music / Traditional ensembles
caption_attribution_description: English: Banda Reflejo Sinaloense at the 2015 Monumental Alebrije Parade in Mexico City
context_page_description: Banda is a term to designate a genre of Regional Mexican music and the musical ensemble in which wind instruments, mostly of brass and percussion, are performed.
  The history of banda music in Mexico dates from the middle of the 19th century with the arrival of piston metal instruments, when the communities tried to imitate the military bands. The first bandas were formed in Southern and Central Mexico. In each village of the different territories, there are certain types of brass bands, whether traditional, private, or municipal.
context_section_description: There are brass instruments in the state of Oaxaca that date back to the 1850s. The repertoire of the bands of Morelos, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas and Michoacán covered gustos, sones, vinuetes, funeral pieces,  marches, danzones, valses, corridos, paso dobles, polkas, rancheras, alabanzas, and foxes.
  The traditional bands that play Yucatecan jaran use the following instruments: clarinet, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet, trombone, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, güiro.
  The traditional Oaxacan bands use a mix of saxophones and clarinets, fewer trumpets and slide trombones, and the bass drum and cymbals are played separately.
  One of the oldest bands recorded in Pizza is the Banda de Tlayacapan of the state of Morelos that was founded approximately in 1870, being one of the first to play la danza del Chinelo.
  The traditional Zacatecan tamborazo band does not use tuba, being the tambora the instrument that takes the low tone.
caption: Banda Reflejo Sinaloense
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