MUSIC Flashcards
(43 cards)
Music of Latin America is the product of three major influences
Indigenous, European, and African (It includes the countries that have had a colonial history from Spain and Portugal.)
Largely functional in nature, being used for religious worship and ceremonies.
Indigenous Latin-American Music
Natives were found to be using local drum and percussion instruments such as the guiro, maracas, and turtle shells, and wind instruments such as zampona ( pan pipes) and quena (notched-end flutes).
Indigenous Latin-American Music
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.
Indigenous Latin-American Music
influence on Latin American music is most pronounced in its rich and varied rhythmic patterns produced by the drums and various percussion instruments.
Afro-Latin American music
Melodies of the Renaissance period were used in Southern Chile and the Colombian Pacific coasts.
Euro-Latin American
Step-wise melodies were preferred in the heavily Hispanic and Moorish-influenced areas of Venezuela and Colombia
Euro-Latin American
The Characteristics of Latin American Music
(Language)
Uses Spanish and Portuguese
The Characteristics of Latin American Music
(Rhythm)
Usually Repetitive bass rhythms
The Characteristics of Latin American Music
(Syncopation)
Weak rhythmic beats are accented
The Characteristics of Latin American Music
(Call and Response)
2 or more musical parts that go back and forth in response to each other
The Characteristics of Latin American Music
(Spanish Decima )
Decima is a song consists of 10 lines each having eight syllables
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.
Samba
Its lively rhythm, consisting of a meter but containing three steps each that create a feeling of a meter instead, was meant to be executed for singing, dancing, and parading in the carnival.
Samba
The most adventurous kind of samba
“Batucada”
Fusion of the popular music or “canciones” of Spain and the African rumba rhythms of Batu origin. Originating in Cuba, it is usually played with the tree (guitar), contrabass, bongos, maracas, and claves.
Son
has evolved from Cuban son and other genres as a popular of urban Carribean Hispanics. Developed in New York in the early 1970’s.
Salsa
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.
salsa
originated in Colombia and Panama, popular courtship dance. It is popular in The andean Region in southern Cone
Cumbia
Evolved in Buenos Aires, Derived from Milonga a lively suggestive Argentinian dance, African origin meaning “African Dance”/from the Spanish word “Taner” meaning to play. Foremost Argentinian and Uruguayan urban popular song and dance.
Tango
Derived from mambo of Cuba and its characteristic rhythm.It was imported from Congo by Bassist, Israel “Cachao” Lopez and his brother pianist, Orestes of the Orquesta Radiofonica with El Danzon Mambo
Cha cha
recreational dance of Afro-Cuban origin, normally used as a ballroom dance where a solo dancer or couple would be in an embrace though slightly apart.
Rumba
popularized in1950s and 1960s as a movement affecting a radical change in the classic Cuban samba.
Bossa Nova
The word “ ” means either ‘new trend’ or ‘something charming, integrating melody, harmony, and rhythm into a “swaying” feel, where the vocal production is often nasal.
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