* Pep Sala ( born 1960 ), Catalan musician, songwriter and record producer

Joan Cererols ( 9 September 1618 – 27 August 1680 ) was a Catalan musician and Benedictine monk.

It was a military march, whose music was composed by the Catalan Blas Parera ; it was approved on March 11, 1813.

The atmosphere, the plots, and the music were quite different from the model that triumphed in Madrid ; the Catalan zarzuela was looking to attract a different public, the bourgeois classes.

* francamasu. com Example of music sung in the local Catalan dialect

Catalan Kiko Veneno and Joaquín Sabina are popular performers in a distinctly Spanish-style rock music, while Sephardic musicians like Aurora Moreno, Luís Delgado and Rosa Zaragoza keep alive-and-well Andalusian Sephardic music.

Today, more than half a million people a year attend musical performances in the Palau that range from symphonic and chamber music to jazz and Cançó ( Catalan song ).

Even Miguel Blay's massive sculptural group symbolizing Catalan music on the corner of the building does not impede the view into or out from the interior ( see photograph ).

* Catalan Rumba ( rumba catalana ), is a genre of music that developed in Barcelona's Romani community.

Solare has also written music for internet animations, mainly for movies of the Catalan artist Nuria Juncosa ( see ).

He wrote mostly on the history of Jazz music and was also an important translator of Portuguese and Catalan literature.

Two stanzas typical of memento mori in mediaeval music are from the virelai ad mortem festinamus of the Catalan Llibre Vermell de Montserrat from 1399:

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Extremely rare image of a contrabass vihuela, detail from a late 15th or early 16th century Catalan ( Spanish ) fresco, St. Vincent enthroned with music making angels, by the Master of < span lang =" es "> Javierre </ span >.

Valencian / Catalan Rock and Ska music is also common all throughout the autonomous community of Valencia.

The sardana's music ( música de cobla, in Catalan ) is played by an 11-piece band called a cobla, that includes genuine folk instruments such as the flabiol ( tabor pipe ) and tambori, tenora, tible which are also used in other regions of Spain.

Other popular music are the ball de bastons ( stick dances ), galops, ball de gitanes and the music of gralla ( music ) ( a kind of Catalan shawm ) and drums used in cercaviles or by colles diableres.

Antonio Francisco Javier José Soler Ramos, usually known as padre ( clergyman ) Antonio Soler, known in Catalan as Antoni Soler i Ramos ( baptized 3 December 1729, died 20 December 1783 ) was a Spanish composer whose works span the late Baroque and early Classical music eras.

Until the death of Francisco Franco, who made it his business to extirpate Catalan national aspirations, his music was virtually proscribed in Spain, to which he never returned except for holidays.

Andorran folk music has similarities to the music in nearby regions of France and Spain, but is especially Catalan in character, especially in the presence of dances like the sardana.

Serrat is considered one of the most important figures of modern, popular music in both the Spanish and Catalan languages.

The museum also houses a small selection of works by other artists collected by Dalí, ranging from El Greco to Marcel Duchamp, and a gallery devoted to the work of Dalí's friend and fellow Catalan artist Antoni Pitxot, who became director of the museum after Dalí's death.

A choir of young women surrounds the " sun " in the stained-glass skylight, and a bust of Anselm Clavé, a famous choir director who was instrumental in reviving Catalan folk songs, is situated on the left side of the stage, under a stone tree.

He was a technical director of the Commonwealth of Catalonia railways, he directed ( 1923-25 ) and projected the construction of the Transversal Metropolitan Railway of Barcelona and other Catalan railway lines.

Ventura Pons Sala () ( born 25 July 1945, in Barcelona, Catalonia ) is a Catalan movie director.

They began on 13 September 2009 in the town of Arenys de Munt in a self-organised local movement and was then followed by a slew of Catalan municipalities.

Certain regions are not considered Castilian, such as Valencia and the Balearic Islands because historically they belong to the Crown of Aragon and because their local languages are Catalan dialects.

A local Ibizan ( eivissenc ) variant of the Balearic dialect of the Catalan language is spoken in Formentera.

Each parish has its own elected mayor who is the nominal head of the local government known as a comú in Catalan.

Fabra moved from Bilbao to Barcelona in 1911, to become a professor ( catedràtic ) of Catalan — a position created by the diputació ( local government ) of Barcelona — and a member of the department of philology at the newly created Institut d ' Estudis Catalans, of which he later became president.

In 1931, after the elections that caused the exile of Alfonso XIII of Spain and gave the local majority to his party Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya ( ERC ), Macià proclaimed the Free Catalan Republic in Barcelona, but was forced afterwards to settle for partial autonomy within the new Spanish Republic.

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

The local dialect is a variant of Catalan.

The local Ribagorçan dialect is a variant of Catalan, which has some transitional traits to Aragonese.

Situated within the geo-linguistic area of La Franja, Benabarre's local dialect of Ribagorçan is a form of Catalan.

The local dialect is a variant of Catalan, called Tamarità ( Spanish: Tamaritano ) by locals.

This town and the surrounding comarca are part of La Franja and the local dialect is a variant of Catalan.

The local Ribagorçan dialect is a variant of Catalan, which has some transitional traits to Aragonese.

This town is located in La Franja, the local dialect is a variant of Catalan.

One example of the pronunciation is the a at the end of the word that is pronounced like an e. The local dialect, properly known as North-Western Catalan is part of the Western Catalan block, and as such, shares some features with Valencian ( whose dialects are also part of that group ).

Each parish has its own elected mayor who is the nominal head of the local government known as a comú in Catalan.

* Veu de Sóller ( local weekly newspaper ), in Catalan

* Setmanari Sóller ( local newspaper ), in Catalan.

The Catalan variant of Cadaqués is referred to as " cadaquesenc " by the local people and also has many lexical items.

The term germanía (" brotherhood " in Catalan — compare with Galician irmandade and Castilian hermandad ) originated from the name of certain communities in Valencia, Spain, which made themselves notorious by rebelling against the local nobility during the sixteenth century.

The official recognition of Spain's other written languages — Catalan, Basque, and Galician — legally allowed the autonomous communities to re-establish their vernacular social identity, including the legal use of personal names in the local languages and written traditions — banned since 1938 — sometimes via the re-spelling of names from Castilian Spanish to their original languages.

The local dialect is a variant of Catalan.