Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, Northern Africa, Western Asia, around the Persian Gulf and northern parts of South Asia.
Asturias officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous community in northwest Spain.
Zamora is a city and municipality of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital of the province of Zamora. The city straddles the Duero river. With its 24 characteristic Romanesque style churches of the 12th and 13th centuries it has been called a "museum of Romanesque art". Zamora is the city with the most Romanesque churches in all of Europe. The most important celebration in Zamora is Holy Week.
Northwest Iberian folk music is a traditional highly distinctive folk style, located along Spain's north-west Atlantic coast, mostly Galicia and Asturias, that has some similarities with the neighbouring area of Cantabria. The music is characterized by the use of bagpipes.
The University of Oviedo is a public university in Asturias (Spain). It is the only university in the region. It has three campus and research centres, located in Oviedo, Gijón and Mieres.
Villaviciosa is a town and municipality in the autonomous community of Asturias, Spain.
Barón Rojo is a Spanish heavy metal band from Madrid that achieved international success in the 1980s. The band is led by siblings Carlos and Armando de Castro, previously from the band Coz, and is considered one of the most important representatives of Spanish hard rock. Barón Rojo in Spanish means "red baron", the name of the band being an homage to Manfred von Richthofen; the 1981 eponymous song "Barón Rojo" is about him. In 2017, they were ranked number 18 on Rolling Stone's "50 Greatest Spanish Rock Bands".
The electronic bagpipes is an electronic musical instrument emulating the tone and/or playing style of the bagpipes. Most electronic bagpipe emulators feature a simulated chanter, which is used to play the melody. Some models also produce a harmonizing drone(s). Some variants employ a simulated bag, wherein the player's pressure on the bag activates a switch maintaining a constant tone. As with other electronic musical instruments, they must be plugged into an instrument amplifier and loudspeaker to hear the sound. Some electronic bagpipes are MIDI controllers that can be plugged into a synth module to create synthesized or sampled bagpipe sounds.
Asturians are a Romance ethnic group native to the autonomous community of Asturias, in the North-West of the Iberian Peninsula.
"Que nadie sepa mi sufrir", also known as "Amor de mis amores" is a song originally composed by Ángel Cabral that has been recorded by numerous Spanish language artists such as Alberto Castillo, Julio Jaramillo and María Dolores Pradera. However, it is also known as "La Foule", a French language version with new lyrics written by Michel Rivgauche, popularized by famed French vocalist Édith Piaf and released in 1957.
Jesús Vázquez Martínez is a Spanish television presenter. In 2008, he became the first Spaniard to be selected as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency.
Antón García AbrilOAXS was a Spanish composer and musician. He composed many classical orchestral works, chamber and vocal pieces, as well as over 150 scores for film and television.
Tierra de Nadie is the fourth studio album by Mexican pop singer Ana Gabriel. It was released in 1988. She achieved international recognition with this album and it reached number one on the Billboard Latin Pop Albums staying in the chart for 73 weeks. It sold four million worldwide. The album was given a Premio Lo Nuestro award for "Pop Album of the Year" in 1990.
The gaita asturiana is a type of bagpipe native to the autonomous communities of Principality of Asturias and Cantabria on the northern coast of Spain.
The muiñeira is a traditional dance and musical genre of Galicia and some parts of Asturias (Spain). It is distinguished mainly by its expressive and lively tempo, played usually in 6
8, although some variants are performed in other time signatures. There are also variant types of muiñeira which remain in the tempo of 6
8 but which displace the accent in different ways. Muiñeira is associated with traditional choreographic schemes and the associated instrumentation is a form of bagpipe known as a gaita. It is subject to highly varied interpretation in differing local traditions. According to "Galicia-The Spanish Cousins", an article on Roots World, muiñeira is the Galician "equivalent" of a jig, which is consistent with the time signature of 6
8. The word "muiñeira" means literally both millstone and a mill landlady. Galician music is classified as part of Celtic music.
Tierra de Nadie may refer to:
Kiko Amat is a Spanish journalist and novelist who also works as a DJ.
Covadonga Romero Rodríguez was a Spanish sculptor and painter, a pioneer of the women's avant-garde of Asturias.
Tierra de nadie is the unofficial name of a public green space officially called Plaza Jorge Rodríguez in the University City of Caracas, the campus of the Central University of Venezuela.
Berta Piñán Suárez is an Asturian writer, professor of Spanish Language and Literature, full member of the Academy of the Asturian Language, and since July 25, 2019, Minister of Consejería de Cultura, Política Lingüística y Turismo del Principado de Asturias.
