Latin America

Question 0

How many different countries are there in Latin America?

Answer 0

20

Question 1

What are the three main languages in Latin America?

Answer 1

Spanish, Portuguese and French

Question 2

Three types of terrain?

Answer 2

Mountain, desert and rainforest

Question 3

4 major influences on music

Answer 3

1. Spanish/Portuguese
2. American/European
3. Africa
4. Remaining Native American culture

Question 4

What is Sanjuan?

Answer 4

Style of music

Man of Illuan is this kind of style

Question 5

What is a kena? How many holes?

Answer 5

Like a flute. 7 holes

Question 6

Music of andes is very often what?

Answer 6

bi-modal

Question 7

What does bi-modal mean?

Answer 7

switching between major and minor

Question 8

Composer of The Apparition

Answer 8

Victor Jara

Question 9

Who was Victor Jara? When did he live?

Answer 9

Important Latin American composer

lived from 1938-1973

Question 10

Is rhythm in Latin American complex? Example?

Answer 10

Yes, hemiolas are often used

Question 11

Kutirimunapaq is in what form? Why?

Answer 11

AABBCC

So we can return

Question 12

What is a wankara

Answer 12

untuned drum

Question 13

What is phukuna and when is it played?

Answer 13

panpipe. Only played in dry season

Question 14

What instruments are used during wet season and why

Answer 14

Flute and recorder.

used to summon rain

Question 15

What is Quecha? How many people speak it? From where?

Answer 15

language spoken by 7 million people in Bolivia, peru, argentina and ecuador

Question 16

What is syncopation

Answer 16

doesn’t follow beats in music

Question 17

Kutiri song is played by who?

Answer 17

Kallawaya people

Question 18

Instead of saying it’s on the north side or west side, what does people from Bolivia say?

Answer 18

Mountain side or ocean side

Question 19

What scale is found in the melody in Bolivia?

Answer 19

pentatonic

Question 20

What is the bomba? is it tuned?

Answer 20

drum played between knees

no

Question 21

What is a guiro made out of? How is it played?

Answer 21

Made of gourd, played by scrapping up and down

Question 22

What is Wayno? What is it felt in?

Answer 22

Style of music

2

Question 23

Africans were brought where and turned into what, when?

Answer 23

Peru, turned into slaves in 1700

Question 24

Large portion of Peru is what color?

Answer 24

black

Question 25

When did Peru become independent from Spain?

Answer 25

1821

Question 26

When did Peru’s constitution go into effect?

Answer 26

1827

Question 27

Who was Peru’s first President?

Answer 27

Ramon Castilla

Question 28

What was Ramon Castilla’s reign?

Answer 28

1845-1851 and 1855-1862

Question 29

What industry did Ramon Castillo create?

Answer 29

harvesting of guano (bird poop)

Question 30

What important thing did Ramon Castillo achiveve regarding slaves?

Answer 30

Freed them

Question 31

What is the purpose of The Apparition

Answer 31

conscious attempt to bring back culture and history

Question 32

What is the quijada?

Answer 32

instrument made of donkey, horse or cow jaw

Question 33

What is the sambadome

Answer 33

a music venue