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Music Of Latin America Flashcards

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Music of Latin America is the product of three major influences —

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Indigenous, European, and African

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○ It includes the countries that have had a colonial history from Spain and Portugal.

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Music of Latin America

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THREE MAJOR INFLUENCES

》Indigenous Latin-American Music

The indigenous music of Latin America was largely functional in nature, being used for…

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religious worship and ceremonies

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THREE MAJOR INFLUENCES

○ Natives were found to be using local drum and percussion instruments such as the _____, ______, and ______, and wind instruments such as _______ ( pan pipes) and ______ (notched-end flutes).

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》Indigenous Latin-American Music

• Percussion instrument; guiro, maracas, turtle shells

• Wind instruments; zampona, quena

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THREE MAJOR INFLUENCES

○ Materials came from hollow tree trunks, animal skins, fruit shells, dry seeds, jaguar claws, animal and human bones and especially-treated inflated eyes of tigers.

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》Indigenous Latin-American Music

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THREE MAJOR INFLUENCES

》Afro-Latin American music

African influence on Latin American music is most pronounced in its rich and varied rhythmic patterns produced by…

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the drums and various percussion instruments

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THREE MAJOR INFLUENCES

》Euro-Latin American

○ Melodies of the Renaissance period were used in _______ and the ________________.

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Southern Chile; Colombian Pacific coasts

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THREE MAJOR INFLUENCES

○ Step-wise melodies were preferred in the heavily Hispanic and Moorish-influenced areas of Venezuela and Colombia

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》Euro-Latin American

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The Characteristics of Latin American Music

  • enumerate
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• Language
• Rhythm
• Syncopation
• Call and Response
• Spanish Decima

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The Characteristics of Latin American Music

  • Language
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• uses Spanish and Portuguese

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The Characteristics of Latin American Music

  • rhythm
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• usually repetitive bass rhythms

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The Characteristics of Latin American Music

  • syncopation
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• weak rhythmic beats are accented

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The Characteristics of Latin American Music

  • call and response
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• 2 or more musical parts that go back and forth in response to each other

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The Characteristics of Latin American Music

  • Spanish decima
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• Decima is a song consists of 10 lines each having 8 syllables

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Popular Music of Latin American

A dance form of African origins around 1838 which evolved into an African-Brazilian invention in the working class and slum districts of Rio de Janeiro.

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Samba

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Popular Music of Latin American

Its lively rhythm, consisting of a meter but containing _____ steps each that create a feeling of a meter instead, was meant to be executed for singing, dancing, and parading in the carnival

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Samba; three steps

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Popular Music of Latin American

  • the most adventurous kind of samba
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Batucada

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Popular Music of Latin American

Batucada is the most…

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adventurous kind of samba

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Popular Music of Latin American

Fusion of the popular music or “canciones” of Spain and the African rumba rhythms of Batu origin.

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Son

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Popular Music of Latin American

Son was originating in…

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Cuba

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Popular Music of Latin American

it is usually played with the tree (guitar), contrabass, bongos, maracas, and claves.

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Son

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Popular Music of Latin American

Son is usually played with 5 different instruments. What are those?

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• tree (guitar)
• contrabass
• bongos
• maracas
• claves.

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Popular Music of Latin American

It has evolved from Cuban son and other genres as a popular of urban Carribean Hispanics.

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Salsa

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Popular Music of Latin American

Salsa was developed in ______ in the early _____’s.

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New York; 1970’s

25
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Popular Music of Latin American

Its style contains elements from the swing dance and hustle as well as the complex Afro-Cuban and Afro- Carribean dance forms of pachanga and guaguanco.

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Salsa

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Popular Music of Latin American

Salsa’s style contains elements from the swing dance and hustle as well as the complex Afro-Cuban and Afro- Carribean dance forms of _____ and _______.

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pachanga; guaguanco

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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

  • enumerate
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• Cumbia
• Tango
• ChaCha
• Rumba
• Bossa Nova
• Reggae
• Foxtrot
• Paso Doble

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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

  • originated in Colombia and Panama
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Cumbia

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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

Cumbia is a popular…

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courtship dance

30
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

It is popular in The andean Region in southern Cone

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Cumbia

31
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

Evolved in Buenos Aires, Derived from Milonga a lively suggestive Argentinian dance

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Tango

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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

African origin meaning “African Dance”/from the Spanish word “Taner” meaning _____.

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Tango; to play

33
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

African origin meaning “______”/from the Spanish word “____” meaning to play.

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Tango; “African Dance” ; “Taner”

34
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

Foremost Argentinian and Uruguayan urban popular song and dance.

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Tango

35
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

Chacha was derived from…

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mambo of Cuba and its characteristic rhythm

36
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

It was imported from Congo by Bassist, Israel “Cachao” Lopez and his brother pianist, Orestes of the Orquesta Radiofonica with El Danzon Mambo

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Cha cha

37
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

recreational dance of Afro-Cuban origin

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Rumba

38
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

Rumba was normally used as a ________ where a solo dancer or couple would be in an embrace though slightly apart.

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ballroom dance

39
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

popularized in1950s and 1960s as a movement affecting a radical change in the classic Cuban samba

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Bossa Nova

40
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

The word “bossa” means either ‘________’ or ‘_________’, integrating melody, harmony, and rhythm into a “swaying” feel, where the vocal production is often nasal

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Bossa Nova

• Bossa = new trend or something charming

41
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

Foremost figure of the Bossanova is _________.

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Antonio Carlos Jobim

42
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

Antonio Carlos Jobim is the foremost figure of…

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Bossa Nova

43
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

popular music and dance style that originated in ______ in the mid ______’s

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Reggae; Jamaica, 1960’s

44
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

Reggae music style was strongly influenced by traditional _____ and _____

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Mento and calypso

45
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

  • reggae
    __________ achieved international fame and acclaim because of his songs
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Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley

46
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley achieved international fame and acclaim because of his songs . What are those?

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• No Woman, No Cry
• One Love
• Three Little Birds

47
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

developed in US in the 1920s , named after Harry Fox.

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Foxtrot

48
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

Foxtrot is similar to ____, Gave rise to other dances such as the black bottom, Charleston and shimmy.

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Waltz

49
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

In Paso Doble “double step” is a theatrical Spanish dance used by the Spaniards in ______

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bullfights

50
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Popular Music of Latin American
(Vocal and Dance Forms)

The dance is arrogant and dignified with a duple meter, march-like character.

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Paso Doble

51
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Popular Music of Latin America

  • enumerate
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• Samba
• Son
• Salsa

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