Instruments
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Regions of Music
Genres
Important Concepts
100
Kena
What is an end-notched flute?
100
Pitu
What is a side-blown cane flute?
100
Mestizo
What is the blending of European with local Native American cultural heritages, refers to peoples social identity, and denotes variable incorporation of Iberian and indigenous cultural heritage?
100
Guitar Wayno
What is the most widespread Andean mestizo song-dance genre in Peru with strophic song texts and short sectional forms as well as a duple meter with a galloping feel?
100
Paucartambo fiesta
What is the fesitval that celebrates the Virgin Mary/Pachamama with costumed dance groups that tell the story?
200
Charango
What is an Andean 10-string guitar variant that is smaller than a guitar?
200
Bombo
What is a large double-headed drum?
200
Columbian and Ecuadorian Mestizo Music
What is mestizo music with strophic form?
200
Cumbia
What is the Afro-Colombian-derived genre characterized by interlocking rhythmic parts and traditionally played by either side-blown reed instruments or vertical duct flute but now played by accordions or urban dance bands throughout Latin American and southern Texas?
200
Orquestas tipicas
What is the ensemble that combines European and pre-Hispanic instruments as well as the coexistence and mixing of European and indigenous traditions?
300
Marimba
What is a wooden keyed xylophone that is originally from Africa?
300
Jarocho
What is a musical group from Veracruz state with pieces that typically begin with instrumental introductions where the harp starts alone then is joined by plucked requinto and finally by strummed guitar?
300
Mexican Mestizo Music
What is music with styles that have strong regional identities and often performed by strolling musicians at local outdoor cafes?
300
Chicha
What is the urban popular style mixing wayno, cumbia, and Western rock and used by children of Andean migrants in Lima to construct and express social identity and that has an ensemble that includes guitars, bass, organ/synth, and percussion?
300
Sesquialtera
What is the combination/juxtaposition of duple and triple rhythms both simultaneously in different instrumental parts or sequentially in the same part?
400
Siku
What are panpipes?
400
Mariachi
What is an ensemble type originally from Jalisco, Mexico consisting of 2+ violins, vihuela, guitarrón, 2 trumpets, and various guitars that embodies post-revolution nationalism?
400
Indigenous Andean Music
What is music that has central values of communal solidarity and reciprocity and egalitarian relations?
400
Son
What is Mexico's most important song/dance genre with strophic song usually about romantic themes and in many regions characterized by hemiola rhythm and fast tempo?
400
Aymara and Quechua
What are the languages of southern Peru?
500
Pinkillu and Tarka
What are cane vertical duct flutes with recorder-like mouthpieces?
500
Huasteco
What is a Mexican musical group from Northern Veracruz and Tamaulipas state the features violin accompaniment by 2 types of guitars and where alteration of singers is typical?
500
Suya
Who are the Native American people of Brazillian Amazon with egalitarian society and who maintain a collective style of musical performance at feasts?
500
Akia
What is the repertoire of individually owned "shout songs" performed by many individuals simultaneously juxtaposed creating a mixed texture that may be considered cacophony in the West but reflects a different conception of an individual's relationship to community, environment, and cosmos?
500
"Playing as One"
What is the concept of not standing out from dense texture, not signaling people out, not having a fixed hierarchy within an ensemble, having equal access to the musical experience, and maintaining amicable community relations being more important than individual musical ability?
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