Quarter 2 Lesson 2 Latin American Music

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1. Enumerate the 6 traditional music of Africa.

2. Muslim music performed often as a wake-up call for early breakfast
and prayers during Ramadan celebration.
3. Musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal style to wake up the
worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.
4. Fast, carnival-like rhythmic music from the Creole slang word for
“party”
LESSON 2:
MUSIC OF LATIN
AMERICA
• Characteristics of Latin-American
Music
• Popular Latin-American Music
• Musical Instruments of Latin
American
• Referred to as Latin music because of the impact of the

countries colonized by Spain and Portugal
Latin American • the product of three major influences

music…. -Indigenous
-Europeans
-African
VOCAL AND DANCE FORMS

OF
LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC
• Originated in Cuba in
1953
1. CHA CHA • a fast rhythmic ballroom
dance of Latin American
origin with a basic pattern
of three steps and a shuffle
• popular recreational dance of Afro-

Cuban origin
• basic pattern of step-close-step and
marked by a delayed transfer of
2. RUMBA weight and pronounced hip
movements
• The word tango may have

been of African origin
meaning “African dance”
3. TANGO or from the Spanish word
taner meaning “to play”
(an instrument).
• Originating in Panama and

Colombia, the cumbia
became popular courtship
4. CUMBIA dance with European and
African instrumentation and
characteristics.
• urban popular music and dance

style that originated in Jamaica in
the mid1960s.
5. REGGAE
• contained English texts coupled
with Creole expressions that were
not so familiar to the non-
Jamaican.
• paso doble (meaning “double step”) a

theatrical Spanish dance used by the
Spaniards in bullfights,
6. PASO DOBLE • music was played as the matador enters
(paseo) and during passes just before the kill
(faena).
• a 20th century social dance that

originated after 1910 in the USA.
7. FOXTROT • It was executed as a one step, two

step and syncopated rhythmic
pattern.
• originated in 1958-59 as a movement

effecting a radical change in the
classic Cuban samba.
8. BOSSA NOVA
• The word bossa comes from the
Brazilian capital of Rio de Janeiro,
which means either “trend” or
“something charming,” integrating
melody, harmony, and rhythm into a
swaying feel, where the vocal style is
often nasal.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
OF
LATIN AMERICAN
Aztec and Mayan

Instruments
Pre-Historic
Incan Musical
Cultural Groups Instruments
in Latin America
Andean Musical
Instruments
a. Tlapitzalli- is a flute variety from the Aztec

culture made of clay with decorations of
abstract designs or images of their deities.
b. Teponaztli- is a Mexican slit drum hollowed
out and carved from a piece of hardwood.
c. Concha- is a wind instrument made from a
seashell usually of a large sea snail. It is
prepared by cutting a hole in its spine near the
Aztec and Mayan
apex, then blown into as if it were a trumpet.
Instruments
d. Rasp- 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
e. Huehueti- is a Mexican upright tubular
drum used by the Aztecs and other ancient
civilizations.
f. Whistles- are instruments made of natural
elements such as bone from animals.
a. Ocarina- an ancient vessel Incan Instruments
flute made of clay or ceramic

with four to 12 finger holes and
a mouthpiece that projected
from the body
b. Zampoṅas- ancient
instruments tuned to different
scalar varieties, played by
blowing across the tube top.
Andean Instruments
a. Pitus- side-blown cane flutes that are
played all year round.
b. Wooden tarkas- vertical duct flutes with
a mouthpiece similar to that of a recorder,
used during the rainy season.
c. Quenas- vertical cane flutes with an end-
notched made from fragile bamboo. They
are used during the dry season.
d. Charango- s 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.

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HOME OF SCHOLARS, WHERE EXCELLENCE IS A WAY OF LIFE

HOME OF SCHOLARS, WHERE EXCELLENCE IS A WAY OF LIFE

1. Enumerate the 6 traditional music of Africa.

• Referred to as Latin music because of the impact of the

Latin American • the product of three major influences

VOCAL AND DANCE FORMS

• popular recreational dance of Afro-

• The word tango may have

• Originating in Panama and

• urban popular music and dance

• paso doble (meaning “double step”) a

• a 20th century social dance that

7. FOXTROT • It was executed as a one step, two

• originated in 1958-59 as a movement

Aztec and Mayan

a. Tlapitzalli- is a flute variety from the Aztec

a. Ocarina- an ancient vessel Incan Instruments

flute made of clay or ceramic

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