LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC Flashcards
The music of Latin America is the product of
three major influences (I-SP-A)
Indigenous
Spanish-Portuguese
African
Sometimes
called Latin music, it includes the
countries that have had a colonial history from
Spain and Portugal, divided into ff areas: (AR,CA,C,B)
Andean Region
Central america
Carribean
Brazil
Influences on Latin american music: (ILA,NAI,ALA,ELA,MA,.PLA)
Indigenous Latin-American Music
Native American/Indian Music
Afro-Latin American Music
Afro-Latin American Music
Mixed American Music
Popular Latin American
INFLUENCE: Before the arrival of the Spanish, Portuguese,
and other European colonizers,
the natives were found to be using local drum
and percussion instruments, Quena, Turtle Shell, Guiro, Maracas
Indigenous Latin-American Music
INFLUENCE: The ethnic and cultural groups of the principal
native Americans share many
similar yet distinctive music elements
pertaining to melody, harmony, rhythm,
form, and dynamics
Native American/Indian Music
INFLUENCE: is most pronounced in its rich and
varied rhythmic patterns produced by the
drums and various percussion
instruments
Afro-Latin American Music
INFLUENCE: The different regions of Latin America adopted
various characteristics from their
European colonizers
I Wanna Be in America from
Leonard Bernstein’s
Broadway hit West Side Story.
Euro-Latin American Music
The diversity of races and cultures from the
Native Americans, Afro-Latin
Americans, and Euro-Latin Americans account
for the rich combinations of musical
elements including the melodic patterns,
harmonic combinations, rhythmic
complexities, wide range of colors and
dynamics, and various structural formats.
- music and dance forms such as the AfroCuban rumba, Jamaican reggae, Colombian cumbia,and the Brazilian samba.
Mixed American Music
Latin America has produced a number of
musical genres and forms that had been
influenced by European folk music, African
traditional music, and native sources.
Some of these Latin American
popular music forms are tango, bossa
nova, samba, son, and salsa.
Popular Latin American Music
It is a flute variety from the Aztec
culture made of clay with decorations of
abstract designs or images of
their deities.
Tlapitzalli
a Mexican slit drum hollowed
out and carved from a piece of hardwood. It is
then decorated with designs in relief or carved
to represent human figures or animals to be
used for both religious and recreational
purposes.
Teponaztli
a wind instrument
made from a seashell usually
of a large sea snail
Conch
is a hand percussion
instrument whose sound is
produced by scraping a group
of notched sticks with another
stick, creating a series of rattling effects.
Rasp
a Mexican upright
tubular drum used by the
Aztecs and other ancient
civilizations. It is made of wood
opened at the bottom and standing
on three legs cut from the
base, with its stretched skin beaten
by the hand or a wooden
mallet.
HueHueti
instruments made of natural
elements such as bone from animals. The
(E-B)whistle is the most common whose
function is to help symbolize the piece’s
purpose.
Whistles, eagle-bone whistles
INCAN INSTRUMENT: was an ancient
vessel flute made of clay or
ceramic with four to 12 finger
holes and a mouthpiece that
projected from the body.
Ocarina
INCAN INSTRUMENT: were ancient
instruments tuned to different
scalar varieties, played by
blowing across the tubetop.
Panpipes (Zamponas)
ANDEAN INSTRUMENTS: are side-blown cane flutes that are
played all
year round.
PItus
ANDEAN INSTRUMENTS: are vertical duct flutes with a
mouthpiece similar
to that of a recorder, used during the rainy
season.
Wooden Tarkas
ANDEAN INSTRUMENT: are vertical cane flutes with an endnotched made from fragile bamboo.
They are used during the dry season.
Quenas
ANDEAN INSTRUMENT: is a ten-stringed Andean guitar
from Bolivia. It is the size of a ukulele
and a smaller version of the mandolin, imitating
the early guitar and lute brought by
the Spaniards. It produces bright sounds and is
often used in serenades in Southern Peru.
Charango
is an extremely popular band in
Mexico whose original ensemble consisted
of violins, guitars, harp, and an enormous
guitarron (acoustic bass guitar).
Mariachi
VOCAL AND DANCE FORMS OF LATIN
AMERICAN MUSIC:
Cumbia
Tango
VOCAL AND DANCE FORMS OF LATIN
AMERICAN MUSIC:
Cumbia
Tango
Cha cha
Rumba
Bossa nova
Reggae
Foxtrot
Paso Doble
Originating in Panama and Colombia, the
“ “ became a popular African
courtship dance with European and African
instrumentation and
characteristics.
Cumbia
The word “ “ may have been of African
origin meaning “African dance” or
from the Spanish word taner meaning “to play”
(an instrument).
Tango
is a ballroom dance the
originated in Cuba in 1953, derived
from the mambo and its characteristic
Cha cha
popular recreational dance of Afro-
Cuban origin, performed
in a complex duple
meter pattern and
tresillo,
Rumba
Originated in 1958-59 as a
movement effecting a radical change in
the classic Cuban samba.
The word “ “
comes from the Brazilian capital of Rio
de Janeiro, which means either “trend” or
“something charming,”
Bossa Nova, bossa
A foremost figure of bossa
nova is “ “
who became
famous with his
song Desafinado (1957).
Antonio Carlos Jobim
In the Philippine pop music
scene, “ “ is a
singer who has become
known as the “Philippines’
Queen of Bossa Nova.”
Sitti Navarro
urban popular music and dance
style that originated in Jamaica in
the mid 1960’s.
It contained English text
coupled with Creole expressions that
were not so familiar to the non-Jamaican.
It was a synthesis of Western American
(Afro-American) popular music and the
traditional Afro-Jamaican music,
Reggae
20th century
social dance that originated
after 1910 in the USA. It was
executed as a one step,
two step and syncopated
rhythmic pattern.
Foxtrot
(meaning
“double step”) is a theatrical
Spanish dance used by the
Spaniards in bullfights,
where the music was played
as the matador enters
(paseo) and during passes
just before the kill (faena).
Paso Doble
