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2nd-Music-Lesson 2 - Latin American Music Vocal and Dance Forms

Latin American music combines musical styles, cultural backgrounds, language, and geography. It uses various instruments like the bombo drum, chajchas rattle, zampoñas panpipes, charango guitar, quena flute, cajon box drum, and maracas. Popular vocal and dance forms include cumbia, tango, cha-cha, bossa nova, paso doble, reggae, rumba, and foxtrot. These forms incorporate Latin American rhythms and instruments along with dance traditions from various countries.

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2nd-Music-Lesson 2 - Latin American Music Vocal and Dance Forms

Latin American music combines musical styles, cultural backgrounds, language, and geography. It uses various instruments like the bombo drum, chajchas rattle, zampoñas panpipes, charango guitar, quena flute, cajon box drum, and maracas. Popular vocal and dance forms include cumbia, tango, cha-cha, bossa nova, paso doble, reggae, rumba, and foxtrot. These forms incorporate Latin American rhythms and instruments along with dance traditions from various countries.

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LATIN AMERICAN

MUSIC
Objectives

• Describe Latin American Music

• Analyze the musical instruments used in Latin American


Music
• Conceptualize the different vocal and dance form of Latin
American Music.
Factors that were combined to
create Latin American Music:
• musical styles
• cultural backgrounds
• language
• geography
WHAT ARE THE
INSTRUMENTS USED IN
LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC?
BOMBO
- is a dual- headed
drum made from a
deep tree trunk
with patches made
up of calf or goat
skin; is played
using two sticks.
CHAJCHAS
- is a rattle made
up of dried hooves
from sheep, llama
or goat and is
worn with a wrist
cloth bracelet.
ZAMPOŇAS
- it is a panpipe-
type of reed
made of pieces
of bamboo that
are tied
together.
CHARANGO
- is a 10- string
guitar made from
the shell of an
armadillo.
QUENA
- is a flute made of
bones or bamboo
that has a vertical
notched reed.
CAJON
- is a rectangular box
made of wood and
played and used as a
drum. It is used by
tapping its front part
while the musician sits
on it. Also known as
“beatbox”.
MARACAS
- instruments made
of gourd-like
coconut shells with
beans, seeds or
small pebbles placed
inside; they are
played by shaking.
CLAVES
- are a pair of
hardwood sticks
played by striking
them together.
WHAT ARE THE VOCAL
AND DANCE FORMS OF
LATIN AMERICA?
CUMBIA
• a type of dance and music
similar to salsa and uses
instruments like accordions,
guitars and percussions.
TANGO
• is a lively and spirited dance of two
people. It is passionate kind of
dance that shows expression and
connection, and is performed in a
traditional or modern style.
CHA- CHA
• is a Latin American ballroom dance
with a fast basic patterns of three
steps with a shuttle. It also has a
fast rhythmic pattern.
BOSSA NOVA
• is a style of music that was derived
from samba, which is an original
Brazilian music. It gives more
emphasis on percussion and
melody.
PASO DOBLE
• it is Spain's traditional couple
dance. It uses music that is
traditionally played in bull fighting.
REGGAE
• is a Jamaican form of music and
dance with strong accented and
supplementary beats. In the 1960s, it
was known as ska and is a variation
of rhythm and blues. The most
popular artist of this genre was Bob
Marley.
RUMBA
• is a kind of song and dance which
originated from Cuba. It has a
percussive rhythm and a
combination of Cuba's musical and
dance traditions. 
FOXTROT
• is a ballroom dance of two quick
slow steps and two quick steps and
is executed alternately in 4/4 time
signature.

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