Editing Venezuela (section)

=== Music ===
{{Main|Music of Venezuela}}
[[File:2952-Danzas Guanaguanare de Venezuela no Festival folclorico da Coruña. (8200095256).jpg|thumb|The Guanaguanare dance, a popular dance in [[Portuguesa (state)|Portuguesa State]]]]

The Indigenous musical styles of Venezuela are exemplified by groups like Un Solo Pueblo and [[Serenata Guayanesa]]. The national musical instrument is the [[Cuatro (Venezuela)|cuatro]]. Traditional musical styles and songs mainly emerged in and around the llanos region, including "Alma llanera" (by [[Pedro Elías Gutiérrez]] and [[Rafael Bolívar Coronado]]), "Florentino y el diablo" (by [[Alberto Arvelo Torrealba]]), "Concierto en la llanura" by [[Juan Vicente Torrealba]], and [[Caballo Viejo|"Caballo viejo"]] (by [[Simón Díaz]]).

The [[Gaita zuliana|Zulian gaita]] is also a very popular genre, generally performed during Christmas. The national dance is the [[joropo]].{{sfn|Cortés|2013|p=2134}} Venezuela has always been a melting pot of cultures and this can be seen in the richness and variety of its musical styles and dances: [[Calypso music|calipso]], [[bambuco]], [[fulía]], cantos de pilado de maíz, cantos de lavanderas, sebucán, and maremare.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.turpialtravel.com/countries/key-facts-venezuela.html|title=Key Facts Venezuela|publisher=Turpial Travel & Adventure|access-date=13 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016050959/http://www.turpialtravel.com/countries/key-facts-venezuela.html|archive-date=16 October 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Teresa Carreño]] was a world-famous 19th century piano virtuoso. Recently, great classical music performances have come out of Venezuela. The [[Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra]] has hosted a number of excellent concerts in many European concert halls, most notably at the 2007 London [[The Proms|Proms]], and has received several honors. The orchestra is the pinnacle of [[El Sistema]], a publicly financed, voluntary music education program now being emulated in other countries.

In the early 21st century, a movement known as "Movida Acústica Urbana" featured musicians trying to save some national traditions, creating their own original songs but using traditional instruments.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.eluniversal.com/arte-y-entretenimiento/141208/rock-and-mau-sonara-bajo-las-nubes-de-calder|title=Rock and MAU sonará bajo las nubes de Calder|newspaper=El Universal|date=8 December 2014|access-date=13 July 2015 |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Fernández B.|first=María Gabriela|url=http://www.eluniversal.com/arte-y-entretenimiento/150314/el-jazz-es-el-lenguaje-universal-de-la-musica-popular|title=El jazz es el lenguaje universal de la música popular|newspaper=El Universal|date=14 March 2015|access-date=13 July 2015}}</ref> Some groups following this movement are Tambor Urbano,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Olsen|first1=Dale|last2=Sheehy|first2=Daniel|title=The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music|date=2007|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-90008-3|page=32}}</ref> Los Sinverguenzas, C4Trío, and Orozco Jam.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Christie|first1=Jan Fairley|title=Living politics, making music : the writings of Jan Fairley|date=2014|isbn=978-1-4724-1266-9|page=113|publisher=Ashgate Publishing}}</ref>

Afro-Venezuelan musical traditions are most intimately related to the festivals of the "black folk saints" San Juan and [[Benedict the Moor|St. Benedict the Moor]]. Specific songs are related to the different stages of their festivals and processions, when the saints start their yearly "''paseo"'' – stroll – through the community.