Photographic Venezuelan Music

"Musica lanera" music of the plains is a vibrant contribution to Latin American Music.

Inocente Carreno, composer, won the National Music Prize in 1989

Indigenous Venezuelan Musicians playing the Cuarto, Arpa,and Maracas.

Venezuelan Drumming African influenced

Musical Group of the 1960s. Gonzalo Castellanos was the music director.

Shaman

Drums

or Membrophanes

Diatonic Harp

4-stringed Cuatros & Maracas

Plucked Lutes

The Venezuelan Violin is one of the most often used instruments in Venezuelan music.