Mexican mariachi band playing happy, iconic, traditional music at private, Mexican-American birthday party, San Diego, southern California, USA
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Mariachi, small Mexican musical ensemble composed mostly of stringed instruments. The term mariachi is also used for the individual performer of mariachi music and for the music itself. Mariachi has long been considered a uniquely Mexican sound. The mariachi orchestra emerged in the late 1700s or early 1800s in west-central Mexico. The word “mariachi” may have come from the now-extinct language of the Coca Indians. The typical instruments of contemporary mariachi include the vihuela, a five-string guitar; the guitarrón, a large, fretless six-string bass guitar; a standard six-string acoustic guitar; and violins and trumpets. Early on, performances began to include vocal elements. Song styles and instrumentals performed with mariachi include rancheras, corridos, cumbias, boleros, ballads, sones, huapangos, jarabes, donzones, joropos, pasodobles, marches, polkas, waltzes, and chotís.