The document summarizes the major influences and forms of music in Latin America. It discusses the Indigenous, African, and European musical influences and traditions brought through colonization. Popular Latin American music genres that developed from the fusion of these influences include samba, son, salsa, tango, bossa nova, cumbia, cha cha, rumba, reggae, and paso doble. Traditional instruments vary by region but include drums, flutes, and other percussion instruments made from natural materials.

1. Music of Latin America
Prepared for the DepEd NTOT Grade 10
K-12 VizMin Cluster by:
Althea Mae B. Bongcawil

2. Music of Latin America is the product of three major
influences- Indigenous, Spanish-Portuguese, and
African
Indigenous Latin-American Music
Natives were found to be using local drum
and percussion instruments such as the
guiro, maracas, and turtle shells, and wind
instruments such as zampona ( pan pipes)
and quena (notched-end flutes).

3. Music of Latin America is the product of three major
influences- Indigenous, Spanish-Portuguese, and
African
Materials came from hollow tree trunks,
animal skins, fruit shells, dry seeds, jaguar
claws, animal and human bones and
especially-treated inflated eyes of tigers.
The indigenous music of Latin America was
largely functional in nature, being used for
religious worship and ceremonies

4. Musical Instruments of Latin America
Zampona Guiro Maracas

5.  Afro-Latin American music
 African influence on Latin American music is most
pronounced in its rich and varied rhythmic patterns
produced by the drums and various percussion instruments.
Euro-Latin American
 Melodies of the Renaissance period were used in Southern
Chile and the Colombian Pacific coasts.
 Step-wise melodies were preferred in the heavily Hispanic
and Moorish-influenced areas of Venezuela and Colombia

6. Popular Latin American Music
Some of these popular music forms are
tango, bossanova, samba, son and salsa.
A. Samba- dance form of African origins
around 1838 which evolved into an
African-Brazilian invention in the working
class and slum districts of Rio de Janeiro.

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Havana, Cuba.mp4
• ..MusicFree YouTube DownloaderSamba Do Brasil-Ey
Macalena.mp3

8. Popular Latin American Music
 “Batucada” the most adventurous kind of
samba
B. Son- Fusion of the popular music or
“canciones” of Spain and the African
rumba rhythms of Bantu origin. Originating
in Cuba, it is usually played with the tres
(guitar), contrabass, bongos, maracas, and
claves.

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- Candela.mp4
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Cielito Lindo Huasteco.mp4

10. Popular Latin American Music
C. Salsa- Social dance with marked influences
from Cuba and Puerto Rico. Its style contains
elements from the swing dance and hustle as
well as the complex Afro-Cuban and Afro-
Carribean dance forms of pachanga and
guaguanco.

11. Popular Latin American Music
Vocal and Dance Forms
1. Cumbia- originated in Panama, popular
courtship dance
2. Tango- African origin meaning “African
Dance”/from the Spanish word “Taner”
meaning to play. Foremost Argentinian and
Uruguayan urban popular song and dance.

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America).mp4

13. Popular Latin American Music
• 3. Cha cha- Derived from mambo and its
characteristic rhythm.
• 4. Rumba- recreational dance of Afro-Cuban
origin, normally used as a ballroom dance
where a solo dancer or couple would be in an
embrace though slightly apart.

14. Popular Latin American Music
• 5. Bossa Nova- originated in 1958 as a
movement effecting a radical change in the
classic Cuban samba. The word “bossa” means
either ‘trend’ or ‘something charming,
integrating melody, harmony, and rhythm
into a “swaying” feel, where the vocal
production is often nasal.

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• Foremost figure of the Bossanova is Antonio Carlos Jobim

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• 6. Reggae- popular music and dance style that originated in Jamaica in
the mid 1960’s. Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley achieved international fame
and acclaim because of his songs :No Woman, No Cry, One Love, Three
Little Birds and others.

17. • 7. Foxtrot- Gave rise to other dances such as
the black bottom, Charleston and shimmy.
• 8. Paso Doble- “double step” is a theatrical
Spanish dance used by the Spaniards in
bullfights. The dance is arrogant and dignified
with a duple meter, march-like character.

18. Listening List
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Mudo Boate Azul - DVD MICHEL NA BALADA.mp4
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66 - MAS QUE NADA - In Stereo!.mp4
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Mariachi Real de Mexico.mp3