Música Vallenata
This country’s Caribbean coast is home to Música Vallenata.
What is Colombia?
Wayno comes from this mountainous region of South America.
What is the Andes or Andean Altiplano?
Candombe originated in this city that used to be a port for enslaved Africans.
What is Montevideo, Uruguay?
The Paraguayan harp was introduced by these European missionaries.
Who are Jesuits?
The marimba has roots in this continent’s musical traditions.
What is Africa?
The three main instruments of Vallenata are accordion, caja, and this scraper.
What is the guacharaca?
Three melodic instruments often used in Wayno are panpipes, violin, and this this wooden instrument.
What is the Quena?
The three types of drums in Candombe are chico, piano, and this one.
What is repique?
This instrument is the centerpiece of Paraguay’s national music.
What is the Paraguayan harp?
The marimba produces sound using wooden keys and these tubes to amplify sound.
What are resonators?
The signature instruments in Vallenata play with these musical qualities to promote themes of love, local legends, and migration.
What are lively rhythms and emotional melodies?
Wayno music pays strong tribute to this aspect of their life in the Andes Mountain Range.
What is environment?
Candombe’s use of drums expresses these two things in opposition to discrimination.
What is African Heritage and Political Resistance?
A signature playing technique of the harp featuring sweeping runs up or down the instrument is called this.
What are glissandi?
The marimba is embraced in these two major Central American countries.
What is Guatemala and Nicaragua?
Vallenata is known for being a blend of these three cultures.
What is African, Indigenous, and European?
Wayno expresses Indigenous identity because this Indigenous group performed it first before taken up by the Spanish.
Who are the Incas?
These two musical elements are heard through the signature drums in Candombe.
What are interlocking rhythms and call-and-response?
Paraguayan harp music helped rebuild national identity after this event.
What is the War of Triple Alliance?
The marimba’s presence and importance in Central American celebrates this quality of their culture.
What is cultural blending?
The themes of migration and humble beginnings in Vallenata reflect this cultural value.
What is national pride?
Besides expressing identity, Wayno often tells stories about this social challenge.
What is migration or migration struggles?
What is 4.6%?
The energetic, virtuosic harp style is often used for this type of music.
What is Polca?
The way Marimba is played in Central America that cultivates community.
What is multiple musicians?