Music in Spain

Music in Spain is varied in form and style, although for many citizens, it is synonymous to Flamenco, an Andalusian genre of music. But here is also existence of rock music, folks, pop, and hip hops in Spanish lands.

In the early Renaissance period, instrumental music in Spain was influenced by Arabic music. Mateo Flecha el viejo and Castillian dramatist Juan del Encina were some of the famous composers; Renaissance songbooks also exist. In the early 16th century, polyphonic vocal style grew in Spain that had similarities with the Franco-Flemish composing styles. The great Spanish composers of the Renaissance period are Francisco Guerrero and Cristóbal de Morales.

18th to 20th centuries led to the conclusion of the "classical" musical culture of Spain and led to the new venture of guitar compositions by renowned Spanish musicians like Fernando Sor, Francisco Tárrega and Miguel Llobet.

However, in the last century and its later decades, musical creativity in Spain drastically changed its drift and moved into areas of folk and popular music. Spanish Music can also be categorized according to the regions or districts like the following:

• Music of Andalusia
• Music of Aragon
• Music of Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias
• Music of the Balearic Islands
• Basque Country music
• Music of the Canary Islands
• Music of Castile, Madrid and León
• Music of Catalonia
• Music of Extremadura
• Music of Murcia
• Music of Navarre and La Rioja
• Music of Valencia

Spanish Pop music flourished since the conclusion of Francisco Franco's regime. Contemporary impact was well drawn from the American and British music, especially rock and roll culture. Tourism was also enhanced by such type of, musical traditions and festivals of Festival de la Canción De Benidorm in the seaside town of Benidorm.

Ye-Yé is derived from the famous English pop-refrain words "yeah-yeah". A French-coined word and mainly was a fusion of American rock and British beat music. Concha Velasco, a singer cum movie star, launched the first hit of this genre of Spanish music named as "La Chica Ye-Yé".

Regional folk music is mainly played in the entire autonomous regions of Spain peninsula. They have a distinctive style of their own and the particular singer also acts the lyricist and composer of the song and was parallely introduced with those of Latin America and Portugal.

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