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The musical tradition of the Campo de Cartagena will be evident on Saturday January 21 with the celebration of the XVII Meeting of crews in the Ajorra.
The meeting will take place at 16.30 hours at the Civic Center and will feature the participation of crews from source to lick, Isla Plana, La Aljorra, Mills and Tallante Marfagones.
The event is organized by the gang for 17 years Aljorra that has managed to provide continuity with the assistance of the City Neighborhood Council, the neighborhood association and the cultural association of women.
Crews in the Campo de Cartagena, and the rest of the Southeast Region and Spanish, were born around the parish, with a tax collection order (called the eagle or bonus) to cover the cost of churches and chapels, and to pay Masses for the Holy Souls.
They went from house to house and participating in religious celebrations.
Currently have lost its initial purpose revenue collection, keeping entertainment and cultural reasons.
Its origin seems to lie in the late fifteenth and development occurs throughout the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
In the past few years 60 and 70 missing a large number of bands, mainly due to the depopulation of rural areas, being now in strong recovery and expansion.
The gang is a group of amateur musicians of traditional music.
It consists of 10 to 15 musicians and a dash or troubadour.
The instruments used are strings (guitar, guitar, lute, mandolin and violin) and percussion (tambourine, cymbals, cane and fake or castanets).
The chants, songs or verses of poetry eagles are sight-(improvised) consist of four eight-syllable verses with rhyme.
à ‰ hese are called quatrains (abab rhyme is when) or quatrains (abba), and are improvised by the trouvere or script.
Then the chorus repeats the last verse followed by chorus of each individual crew.
The theme of these ballads is diverse, but is fundamentally religious issues, refers to issues of place or criticizes piropea or acquaintances, but always with a laugh, with irony and without malice.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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