Music GA 3.1 Flashcards
-Is a Latin American popular music blending, predominantly Cuban rhythms with elements of jazz, rock, and soul music.
-It covers a wide range of styles from son, guaracha, cha-cha mambo to guajira.
Salsa
-Is a Brazilian dance of African origin performed in groups, by couples, or as solo.
-It is considered the dance of joy in Rio’s Carnival celebration.
Samba
-Is a style of music derived from calypso and American soul music which originated in the Caribbean Island of Trinidad and Tobago.
Soca
-is a sensual partner dance made popular in the French Caribbean with origins in Lambada and ….. dance rhythms.
Zouk
-Known for its flowing motion and upper body movement which gave rise to women’s dramatic “hair flick.”
-This dance has captured the heart of many people around the world and generally attracts those who are strong, established, and looking for a dance that emphasizes interdependent partner interaction.
Zouk-Lambada
-Is a Latin-American dance music similar to salsa of Columbian origin which is accompanied by guitar, accordions, bass guitar, and percussion.
-It started as a courtship dance practiced by the African slave population and was traditionally performed in the street by pairs of men and women.
Cumbia
-Is one of the most fascinating of all the dances.
-It originated in Buenos Aires in the late 19th century.
-It is a dance in duple time, characterized by marked rhythms, long gliding steps, and abrupt pauses.
-It became a popular ballroom dance in Europe and the US in 1920.
Tango
-Is one of the most sensual Latin dance styles of Cuban origin.
-It is a dance of love and passion in a slow, serious, romantic dance with flirtation between the partners.
-It is in slow rhythm in duple meter which combines complex footwork with a pronounced movement of the hips.
-It is related to the Afro-Cuban music which was introduced by the African slaves in Cuba in the 16th century.
Rumba
-Also known as ……, is an energetic modern dance similar to mambo, which involves small fast steps and swaying hip movements.
-It is a Latin American dance originated in Cuba where it evolved from the older form of Cuban dance called danzon. In the 1950’s, …….became a popular social ballroom dance in the US.
Cha-Cha-Cha
-Is a Brazilian style of music developed and popularized in the late 1950’s in Rio de Janeiro.
-The term “……” means “new trend” or “fashionable wave,” a fusion of samba and jazz that became popular among the young musicians and college students in the 1960’s.
-………… music incorporate themes on women, love, longing, and loneliness and commonly accompanied by a nylon-string classic guitar.
Bossa nova
-Is the most important figure behind the development of Bossa nova style.
-He became famous with his bossa nova song The Girl from Ipanema which became an international mega-hit and considered one of the most recorded songs of all time.
Antonio Carlos Jobim
-Is a style of popular African Caribbean music which originated in Jamaica in the late 1960’s.
-It is similar to rock music and characterized by a strong syncopated rhythm blending with blues, calypso, and rock-n-roll.
-…… music usually express news, social protest, and political comment.
-It became widely known through the works of Bob Marley and his band “The Wailers” in 1970.
Reggae
-Is a ballroom dance in simple duple meter that combines short, quick, and long steps in different patterns.
-It is a romantic dance consisting of fairly simple walking steps and side steps.
-It is a combination of slow steps, which use two beats of music, and quick steps, which use one beat of music (“slow, quick, quick” or “slow, slow, quick, quick”).
-……. originated in 1914 in the US by Vaudeville actor, Harry Fox.
Foxtrot
-Is a Spanish folk dance which means “two steps” or “double steps”.
-It is a dance in duple meter which was originally used during the procession at the beginning of a bullfight.
-This ballroom dance for couples was created to dramatize the movements of the toreador at the bullfight.
-The male often stamps his feet to represent the matador, while the female often wears a long, flowing skirt that represents the matador’s cape.
Paso Doble
-Is a percussion instrument of Afro-Cuban, consisting of a pair of small drums of different sizes.
-They are played with the fingers and hands to make a high, dry, and tapping sound held between the knees.
Bongos
-Is a percussion instrument in Latin America consisting of a set of wooden bars, placed over tuned metal resonators and played with two padded mallets.
-It was developed by the African slaves in Central America, and now considered as Guatemala’s national instrument.’’
Marimba
-Is a Latin American percussion instrument commonly used in Puerto Rican, Cuban, and other forms of Latin American music.
-It consists of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side and played by rubbing the notches using a stick or tines.
Guiro
-Is a percussion instrument created and first used by the native Indians of Puerto Rico.
-….. is used in pairs in Latin America and Puerto Rican music to create a unique sound.
-It is made from gourd filled with seeds or pebbles and often use in pair as rhythm instrument
Maracas
-Is a traditional flute in South America mostly used by Andean musicians.
-It is made from totora, which is open on both ends with six finger holes and one thumb hole.
Quena
-Is a South American wind instrument which belongs to the panpipe or pan-flute family.
-It is made from a series of cane tubes, bound together, open at one end and closed on the other end.
-It originated in Peru and Bolivia, known as folk instrument and could be considered as the first mouth organ.
Zampoña
-Is a South American stringed instrument of the lute family traditionally made from the shell of an armadillo or tortoise.
Charango
