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Música michoacana is the umbrella term for the traditional and popular musics of the Mexican state of Michoacán. It blends Indigenous Purépecha song forms (notably the lyrical pirekua) with rural string-band sones, waltz-time ballads, and later brass/wind banda practices. Typical ensembles include string groups with violins, vihuela and six-string guitar, the arpa grande (a large diatonic harp emblematic of the Tierra Caliente zone of Michoacán), and, in some towns, bandas de viento (wind/brass bands). Rhythms move between triple-meter waltzes (3/4) and compound meters characteristic of regional sones, while melodies often sit in major or modal-inflected minors with ornamented violin or harp lines. Lyrically, música michoacana evokes local landscapes (lakes Pátzcuaro and Zirahuén, Tierra Caliente), love and courtship, fiestas patronales, migration, and historical memory, sung in Spanish and at times in Purépecha.