Social, Cultural, and Historical Background
Summary of Musical Traditions
Urbanization of Regional Rural Music
The Andes Axis
The Rio de la Plata
100
What indigenous population still populates Chile?
Mapuche
100
What is the name of the sanctuary in the Diaguita-Picunche-Hispanic area that shapes the musical history?
Sanctuary of Andacollo
100
What is Urbanization?
It is the rural migration to urban areas such as cities or suburbs.
100
What were the lyrics of milongas centered upon?
Political, historical, humorous, provocative and patriotic subjects.
100
What are the two types of tonadas?
Chilean and Cuyan tonadas
200
In the 1820’s what were the two main contributors to the economy of Argentina?
Cattle-raising and mining
200
What area in Chile has the greatest agriculture and cattle raising?
The Picunche-Hispanic Area
200
Who is the sibling duo the promoted rural music?
Violeta Isabel and Angel Parra
200
At what locations was the milonga bailada danced?
Public dance halls, brothels, and gambling halls.
200
True or False: Male vocalists perform the Chilean tonadas?
False, female vocalists, cantoras, performed Chilean tonadas. Males performed Cuyan tonadas.
300
The Rio de la Plate is formed at the joining of what two rivers?
Uruguay River and the Paraná River
300
What are the two provinces in the central area of Argentina?
Cordoba and Santiago de Estero
300
What part of rural music did artists such as Violeta Isabel and Angel Parra desire to protect?
Latin America identity and ideas
300
What is the payada de contrapunto?
A song-duel between two singers.
300
What is the name of the female cantora who first performed in a sister act called Las Hermanas Loyola and eventually became the first female to win the Premio Nacional de Arte en Música?
Margot Loyola
400
What area in Argentina has the highest concentration of European population?
Pampeana
400
What region makes up the Andes Axis?
Santiago, Chile to Mendoza, Argentina or the Cuyo Region
400
What is the name of a famous milonga pampeana?
“A Juan Bautista Bairoleto”
400
What type of rhyme scheme are tonadas sung in?
Octosyllabic meter
500
What two musical genres extend through the entire Southern Cone?
Children's Music and the various demonstrations of popular Catholicism.
500
What region makes up the Rio de la Plata Axis?
Estuary of el Rio de Plata to the Atlantic Ocean and the city ports.
500
What changed at the end of the 19th century that caused a new theme in the guacho style milongas?
Farms were now private property that had fenced in pastures. There was also an increased in advanced technology
500
What method is used to end a tonada that dates back to the Spanish tradition of ending songs with finidas during the fifteenth century?
Acogollo is repeated in the beginning and end, or by despidida, meaning an announcement that the song is ending
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