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title: "Muiñeira"
slug: muineira
definition: "Fast triple-meter dance piece, common to both the Asturian and Galician gaita. In Asturies it's part of the romería and parade repertoire."
synonyms: ["muñeira", "Asturian muiñeira"]
publishedAt: 2026-06-17
---
The **muiñeira** is a fast triple-meter dance piece, characteristic of
the gaita repertoire across the northwestern Iberian Peninsula. It's
played both on the **Asturian gaita** and the **Galician gaita**, and is
one of the clearest points of contact between the two traditions.

In Asturies it's part of the romería dance repertoire and of band
processions. Its name refers to the mill —"muiñeira", from muíño—, and
its lively rhythm carried it across districts and across both branches of
the tradition.

It isn't an exclusively Galician piece: the Asturian muiñeira has its own
phrasing and its own place in the songbook of Asturies.