Uruguayan music

A traditional festival with wild horses. The ones in Palmitas, Soriano as well as the ones in El Prado are the most popular ones.

• Carnival

• Rural

• Torta frita

• Murga

Traditional festival held in February.

There are murgas, parades and dances.

• Rural

• Rock concert

• Carnival

• Folk music

A distinctive type of music originated in the late 18th and 19th century in Uruguay and Argentina.

• Rock

• Blues

• Jazz

• Tango

This music genre is strongly connected to the countryside, horses, and gauchos.

• Folk music

• Tango

• Candombe

• Rock

A traditional murga group comprises a choir and three percussionists and this is the type of murga performed on stages at Carnival.

• True

• False

The percussion instruments used in a Murga, derived from the European military band, and they are:

• The bombo (a shallow bass drum worn at the waist and playedhorizontally)

• Maracas

• The redoblante (snare drum)

• Platillos (cymbals)

The opening song in a Murga is called "retirada".

• True

• False

This kind of music has an Afro-Uruguayan origin.

• Murga

• Folk music

• Tango

• Candombe

This kind of music has even been recognized as Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO.

• Candombe

• Folk music

• Tango

• Murga

This music genre is the fusion of musical, religious, and dance cultural traditions.

• Rock

• Candombe

• Murga

• Tango