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Catalonia is a Spanish region best-known for the rumba gitana genre, which includes popular performers like Peret and Gato Perez. Catalonian singer-songwriters include Lluís Llach and Joan Manuel Serrat, while clarinet-based cobla bands and dance orchestras like Tercet Treset, Orquesta Platería, Orquesta Galana and Salseta del Poble Sec are well-known.

Contrap´s and sardanas are popular dances, with the sardanas being especially widespread. There are two types, the original corta style and more modern larga, which is more popular. Sardanas can be danced with or without singing, and is usually a circle dance.

Instruments include the violin, drums and the flabiol, a small flute.

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