Familia Valera Miranda: Background Info Flashcards
1
Q
where are they from?
A
eastern cuba - santiago de Cuba
2
Q
what is origin of cuban music?
A
- handed down from ancestors - farmers/ andalusian immigrants
3
Q
what album are the songs from?
A
cana quema (cane burning)
4
Q
when was this album released?
A
1997
5
Q
what musical form is used?
A
cuban son
6
Q
what is a cuban son?
A
fusion of spanish (colonised cuba) and african music (imported)
7
Q
what are the spanish features?
A
- functional chords
- use of guitar, cuatro and double bass
8
Q
what are the african features?
A
- syncopated, layered rhythms
- call and response
- use of percussion
9
Q
what performing forces are used?
A
- lead vocal (pregón)
- chorus vocals (coro)
- guitar
- cuatro
- double bass
- bongos/maracas/claves
10
Q
what is a cuatro and what role does it have in the pieces?
A
eight-stringed instrument related to guitar - tuned in pairs G, C, E, A
- thicker sound
- solo melodic lines
- repeated melodic pattern of guajeo
- strummed chords
