LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC

Question 1

The music of Latin America is the product of
three major influences (I-SP-A)

Answer 1

Indigenous
Spanish-Portuguese
African

Question 2

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)

Answer 2

Andean Region
Central america
Carribean
Brazil

Question 3

Influences on Latin american music: (ILA,NAI,ALA,ELA,MA,.PLA)

Answer 3

Indigenous Latin-American Music
Native American/Indian Music
Afro-Latin American Music
Afro-Latin American Music
Mixed American Music
Popular Latin American

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Indigenous Latin-American Music

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Native American/Indian Music

Question 6

INFLUENCE: is most pronounced in its rich and
varied rhythmic patterns produced by the
drums and various percussion
instruments

Answer 6

Afro-Latin American Music

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

Euro-Latin American Music

Question 8

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.

Answer 8

Mixed American Music

Question 9

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.

Answer 9

Popular Latin American Music

Question 10

It is a flute variety from the Aztec
culture made of clay with decorations of
abstract designs or images of
their deities.

Answer 10

Tlapitzalli

Question 11

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.

Answer 11

Teponaztli

Question 12

a wind instrument
made from a seashell usually
of a large sea snail

Answer 12

Conch

Question 13

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.

Answer 13

Rasp

Question 14

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.

Answer 14

HueHueti

Question 15

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.

Answer 15

Whistles, eagle-bone whistles

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

Ocarina

Question 17

INCAN INSTRUMENT: were ancient
instruments tuned to different
scalar varieties, played by
blowing across the tubetop.

Answer 17

Panpipes (Zamponas)

Question 18

ANDEAN INSTRUMENTS: are side-blown cane flutes that are
played all
year round.

Answer 18

PItus

Question 19

ANDEAN INSTRUMENTS: are vertical duct flutes with a
mouthpiece similar
to that of a recorder, used during the rainy
season.

Answer 19

Wooden Tarkas

Question 20

ANDEAN INSTRUMENT: are vertical cane flutes with an endnotched made from fragile bamboo.
They are used during the dry season.

Answer 20

Quenas

Question 21

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.

Answer 21

Charango

Question 22

is an extremely popular band in
Mexico whose original ensemble consisted
of violins, guitars, harp, and an enormous
guitarron (acoustic bass guitar).

Answer 22

Mariachi

Question 23

VOCAL AND DANCE FORMS OF LATIN
AMERICAN MUSIC:

Answer 23

Cumbia
Tango

Question 23

VOCAL AND DANCE FORMS OF LATIN
AMERICAN MUSIC:

Answer 23

Cumbia
Tango
Cha cha
Rumba
Bossa nova
Reggae
Foxtrot
Paso Doble

Question 24

Originating in Panama and Colombia, the " " became a popular African courtship dance with European and African instrumentation and characteristics.

Answer 24

Cumbia

Question 25

The word " " may have been of African origin meaning “African dance” or from the Spanish word taner meaning “to play” (an instrument).

Answer 25

Tango

Question 26

is a ballroom dance the originated in Cuba in 1953, derived from the mambo and its characteristic

Answer 26

Cha cha

Question 27

popular recreational dance of Afro- Cuban origin, performed in a complex duple meter pattern and tresillo,

Answer 27

Rumba

Question 28

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,”

Answer 28

Bossa Nova, bossa

Question 29

A foremost figure of bossa nova is " " who became famous with his song Desafinado (1957).

Answer 29

Antonio Carlos Jobim

Question 30

In the Philippine pop music scene, " " is a singer who has become known as the “Philippines’ Queen of Bossa Nova.”

Answer 30

Sitti Navarro

Question 31

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,

Answer 31

Reggae

Question 32

20th century social dance that originated after 1910 in the USA. It was executed as a one step, two step and syncopated rhythmic pattern.

Answer 32

Foxtrot

Question 33

(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).

Answer 33

Paso Doble