2nd Quarter Lesson #2 MAPEH For Today's Learner 10 Latin American Music

1. Music of Latin America

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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. • Foremost figure of the Bossanova is Antonio Carlos Jobim

13. • 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.

14. • 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.