Salsa

Question 1

Where did salsa come from?

Answer 1

Salsa came in the mid-20th century in New York.

Question 2

What is salsa music a fusion of?

Answer 2

Cuban music and Jazz

Question 3

What is salsa?

Answer 3

An energetic lively Latin American dance from Cuba.

Question 4

What does a typical salsa band consist of?

Answer 4

piano, bass, congas, timbales, a horn section of trumpets and perhaps saxaphones, smaller handheld percussion instruments including claves, maracas, guiros and cowbells, a principle singer (sonero), and backing singers (choro) who sing in Spanish.

Question 5

What rhythm is the music based on?

Answer 5

son clave rhythm

almost always in 4/4 time

Question 6

verses:

Answer 6

a main tune that is repeatedly brought where lyrics are heard by the sonero (soloist singer)

Question 7

What does the use of repeated patterns allow for in music?

Answer 7

fluidity in structure

Question 8

What can changes of section be remarked by?

Answer 8

timbale(drum)

Question 9

clave rhythm:

Answer 9

played by claves and sets out the rhythmic foundation

Question 10

Why can clave rhythms sometimes be hard to hear?

Answer 10

• not explicitly played

- it is a reluctant rhythm of the overlapping rhythms played

Question 11

What are the clave rhythms?

Answer 11

2,3 and 3,2 clave rhythms

Question 12

syncopation:

Answer 12

occurs when a rhythmic pattern that typically occurs on strong beats or strong parts of the beat occur instead on weak beats or weak parts of the beat.

Question 13

fusion:

Answer 13

when musical styles are combined together to make something new