Introduction to Mexican Music
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Introduction to Mexican Music
Banda Music

Lesson Introduction

Mariachi Music

Conjunto Huasteco Music

Conjunto Jarocho Music

Conjunto Norteño Music

» Banda Music

Marimba Band

Trío Romántico

Duranguense

About the Educator

Banda is a term to designate a style of Mexican music and the musical ensemble in which wind instruments, mostly of brass, and percussion, are performed.



Banda Instruments

This group features 3 Trumpets, 4 clarinets, 3 valve trombones, 2 Eb alto horns, and 1 sousaphone.
The trumpet is a standard instrument used in the mariachi. A mariachi has one to two trumpets in the band. The trumpets and violins play the melody of the mariachi songs.
The clarinet is a musical instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight cylindrical tube, cylindrical bore, and a flared bell. 
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.  Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips (embouchure) cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate. Nearly all trombones have a telescoping slide mechanism that varies the length of the instrument to change the pitch.
The Eb horn is a brass instrument in the saxhorn family, and is usually pitched in Eb. It has a bore that is mostly conical, like the flugelhorn and baritone horn, and normally uses a deep, cornet-like mouthpiece.
The sousaphone is a brass instrument in the same family as the more widely known tuba. Created around 1893 by J.W. Pepper at the direction of American bandleader John Philip Sousa (whom the instrument was then named after), it was designed to be easier to play than the concert tuba while standing or marching, as well as to carry the sound of the instrument above the heads of the band.

Where is Banda music from?



Banda music is native to the Mexican state of Sinaloa.

Famous Banda Music Groups
  • Banda El Recodo
  • Banda Machos