Music Of Latin America

 The music of Latin America refers to

music originating from Latin America,
namely the Romance-speaking countries
and territories of the Americas and the
Caribbean south of the United States.
Influences on Latin American Music
 The music of Latin America
refers to music originating
from Latin America, namely
the Romance-speaking
countries and territories of
the Americas and the
Caribbean south of the United
States.
 The quena is the
traditional flute of the
Andes. Traditionally made
of cane or wood, it has 6
finger holes and one thumb
hole, and is open on both
ends or the bottom is half-
closed.
 Zampoñas (pronounced zam pon
nyas) are a series of hollow “pipes”
made from hollow reeds found near
lakes in the high mountains. ... The
word zampoña is Spanish. In the
Native language of Aymara,
panpipes are called siku or sicuri. In
the Native language of Quechua,
panpipes are called “Antara”.
 patterns,shells were also
used as the sound box of
some string instruments.
The turtle shell consists of
two halves ―the upper one, or
carapace, and the lower one,
or plastron― naturally joined
together.
 The güiro is a Latin American
percussion instrument consisting
of an open-ended, hollow gourd
with parallel notches cut in one
side. It is played by rubbing a
stick or tines along the notches
to produce a ratchet sound.
A maraca, sometimes called
rumba shaker, chac-chac and
various other names, is a
rattle which appears in many
genres of Caribbean and Latin
music. It is shaken by a
handle and usually played as
part of a pair.
AFRO-LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC
 The music of Latin
America refers
to music originating from Latin
America, namely the Romance-
speaking countries and territories
of the Americas and the
Caribbean south of the United
States.
Euro-Latin American Music
 Euro-Latin American
Melodies of the
Renaissance period were
used in Southern Chile and
the Colombian Pacific
coasts
Mixed American Music
 The music of the United States reflects the
country's pluri-ethnic population through a
diverse array of styles. It is a mixture of music
influenced by West African, Irish, Scottish and
mainland European cultures among others. The
country's most internationally
renowned genres are jazz, blues, country, blue
grass, rock, rhythm and
blues, soul, ragtime, hip hop, doo
wop, pop, techno, house, folk
music, disco, boogaloo, reggaeton, and salsa.
American music is heard around the world.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, some
forms of American popular music have gained
a near-global audience.[
Popular Latin American Music
 Samba is a lively, rhythmical dance
of Afro-Brazilian origin in 2/4 time
danced to samba music whose
origins include the Maxixe. Samba
was created by African people in
Brazil from the music and dance
culture they brought from Africa.
 Son cubano is a genre of
music and dance that
originated in the highlands of
eastern Cuba during the late
19th century. It is a syncretic
genre that blends elements of
Spanish and African origin.
 Salsa is a popular form of social
dance originating in Cuba and
before from United States of
America U.S.A regions of New York
and Puerto Rico and Cuban folk
dances. The movements of Salsa
are a combination of the Afro-Cuban
dances Son, cha-cha-cha, Mambo,
Rumba, bomba and the Danzón.
Musical

Instrumental of

Latin America
 A tlapitzalli is an aerophone known
from pre-Columbian Mesoamerican
cultures, particularly the Aztec. It is
a form of flute, made of ceramic,
wood, clay, or bone.
... Tlapitzalli was also a term that
was used to refer to the conch shell
trumpets used to coordinate
attacks during Aztec war
ceremonies.
Ateponaztli is a
type of slit drum
used in central
Mexico by the
Aztecs and related
cultures.
 Conch, or conque, also known
as a "seashell horn" or "shell
trumpet", is a musical
instrument, a wind instrument
that is made from a seashell,
the shell of several different
kinds of very large sea snails.
 A Rasp is one of the
musical instruments of Latin
America. Rasp is a
percussioninstrument usually held by
hands. Its sound is produced by
scrapping a group of notched sticks
using another stick, thereby creating a
series of rattling effects that add to
the uniqueness of the Latin
American rhythm and music.
 The huēhuētl is a percussion
instrument from Mexico, used by the
Aztecs and other cultures. It is an
upright tubular drum made from a
wooden body opened at the bottom
that stands on three legs cut from its
base, with skin stretched over the top.
It can be beaten by hand or wood
mallet.
 Most of the flutes are single-pipe
vertical flutes with either whistle-
type (e.g., the pincollos of the Inca)
or end-notched (e.g., the Andean
quena) mouthpieces.Whistles and
ocarinas are also found
throughout Latin America.
Incan Musical Instrument
 The Incas used a wide variety
of musical instruments, some as:
The pomatinyas: little drums made
of puma skin. The pinkullo:
wind instrument similar to a flute.
The Huancar or wankara: large
drum used by men.
 The ocarina is an ancient wind musical
instrument—a type of vessel flute.
Variations exist, but a typical ocarina is
an enclosed space with four to twelve
finger holes and a mouthpiece that
projects from the body.
 Zampoñas (pronounced zam pon nyas)
are a series of hollow “pipes” made from
hollow reeds found near lakes in the high
mountains. ... The word zampoña is
Spanish. In the Native language of
Aymara, panpipes are called siku or
sicuri. In the Native language of
Quechua, panpipes are called “Antara”.
 Siku is a traditional Andean panpipe. This
instrument is the main instrument used in a
musical genre known as sikuri. It is traditionally
found all across the Andes but is more typically
associated with music from the Kollasuyo, or
Aymara speaking regions around Lake Titicaca.
 The tarka (Quechua, Aymara:
tharqa) is an indigenous flute of the
Andes. Usually made of wood, it has
6 finger holes, fipple on mouth end
and free hole on distant end.
 The charango is a small Andean
stringed instrument of the lute
family, which probably originated in
the Quechua and Aymara
populations in the territory of the
Altiplano in post-Colombian times,
after European stringed instruments
were introduced by the Spanish
during colonialization.
 Mariachi is a style of music and
musical group performance that
dates back to at least the 18th
century, evolving over time in the
countryside of various regions of
western Mexico. It has a distinctive
instrumentation, musical genre,
performance, singing style, and
clothing.
 Vocal And Dance
Forms Of
Latin American Music
 The origin of cumbia music comes from
the days of slavery in the late 17th
century and is derived from the African
word cumbe which means dance.
Another word was derived later in the
Antioquia region of Colombia called
caracumbe and was coined by African
slaves who worked in the mines.
 Tango is a popular partner dance
and social dance that originated in
the 1880s along the Río de la Plata,
the natural border between
Argentina and Uruguay. It was born
in the impoverished port areas of
these countries, where natives
mixed with slave and European
immigrant populations.
 The cha-cha-chá, informally called
cha-cha, is a dance of Cuban origin.
It is danced to the music of the
same name introduced by Cuban
composer and violinist Enrique
Jorrin in the early 1950s. This
rhythm was developed from the
danzón-mambo.
 The term rumba may refer to a
variety of unrelated music styles.
Originally, "rumba" was used as a
synonym for "party" in northern
Cuba, and by the late 19th century
it was used to denote the complex
of secular music styles known as
Cuban rumba.
 Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian
music, which was developed and
popularized in the 1950s and 1960s
and is today one of the best-known
Brazilian music styles abroad. The
phrase bossa nova means literally
"new trend" or "new wave".
 Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de
Almeida Jobim, also known as Tom
Jobim, was a Brazilian composer,
pianist, songwriter, arranger and
singer.
 Sitti Katrina Baiddin Navarro-
Ramirez, known professionally as
Sitti, is a Filipino bossa nova singer.
After releasing her first album, Café
Bossa, in 2006, other bossa nova
acts in the Philippines followed.
Navarro is also featured in the
segment "A.S.A.P. Sessionistas" of
the variety show ASAP.
 Reggae is a music genre that originated
in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term
also denotes the modern popular music
of Jamaica and its diaspora.
 The foxtrot is a smooth,
progressive dance characterized by
long, continuous flowing
movements across the dance floor.
It is danced to big band (usually
vocal) music. The dance is similar
in its look to waltz, although the
rhythm is in a 4.
 Pasodoble is a fast-paced Spanish
military march used by infantry
troops. Its speed allowed troops to
give 120 steps per minute. This
march gave rise to a traditional
Spanish dance, a musical genre
including both voice and
instruments, and a genre of
instrumental music often played
during bullfight.