Yaqui music is the music of the Yaqui tribe and people of Arizona and Sonora. Their most famous music are the deer songs which accompany the deer dance. They are often noted for their mixture of American Indian and Catholic religious thought.

Sculpture in memory of deer dancer Jorge Tyler on display on Genova Street in the "Zona Rosa" in Mexico City.

Their deer song rituals resemble those of other Aztec influenced groups though is more central to their culture. Native and Spanish instruments are used including the harp, violin or fiddle, rasp, and rattles.

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• Yaqui song "Kapo Sewa" (on YouTube)
• UbuWeb: Ethnopoetics: Poems: Yaqui: "15 Flower World Variations", one song translated to English by Jerome Rothenberg and the same with different typography
• Words & Place: Seyewailo: The Flower World Yaqui Deer Songs video
• Review of Yaqui Deer Songs: Maso Bwhikam by Larry Elvers and Felipe S. Molina by Karl Young

• Pascua Yaqui Tribe: Culture: Music, one song in Haiki and Spanish