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What do you already know?

Working with a partner try and write down as much as possible under the following headings:

Countries in South America

South American music styles and genres

Instruments used in South American Music

The names of any composers of musicians from South America

Let’s start at the

beginning!

Leno Verde (Green Wood).

INTRO – name the instrument.

Section 1 – panpipe enters. Descibe what you hear.

Section 2 – 1st panpipe with main melody, repeated by the 2nd panpipe.

Transition – charango + voice

Section 3 – panpipe. How many notes does its theme here have?

ENDING – how does the piece end?

Andean Music

The oldest Music from Latin America – from the native Indians who live in the Andean Mountains.

‘Ancient’ instruments like panpipes, flutes, guitars,

harps, and drums.

Spanish and Portugusese explorers brought with them their own sounds and dances when they arrived and this ‘fused’ with the native Indian

styles.

Tango (Argentina); Samba and Bossa Nove (Brazil);

Salsa and Rhumba (Cuba)

Extra listening

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What two instruments do you hear at the start?

Listen to the panpipes in section 1. they SEEM to copy each other. Write down the SIMILARITIES

and DIFFIERENCES.

Match the graphic scores to each section.

Rhythms of the Andes

We are going to learn Floreo de Llamas ; this is a popular Andean piece of music.

Together we will talk about some important parts of the score before we play it together.

Practice the four pitched accompaniments.

Use untuned percussion for the ostinato parts (R1)

Finally play the melody.

Now lets put it all together.

How can we improve our performance?

Music from Brazil

Brazilian music has a rich history and many exciting different styles.

Carnival music, samba, and bossa nova all come from Brazil.

Features of Brazilian music (and many other Latin American music styles) include:

Use of the spanish decima song form

African syncopated rhythms

call – response vocal techniques

European harmony

Samba music

The samba is seen as the national music of Brazil

Its origins are traced back to Anogla and Congo in Africa where it was a dance

Samba rhythms were mixed with European harmonies from Portugal

The result was SAMBA!

Samba first became well known early in the 20th century where it emerged from Rio De Janeiro’s immigrant African American culture.

The samba beat is a syncopated rhythm in 2/4 time – usually played by the surdo

Bossa Nova

Bossa nova music is an offshoot of Samba music.

It literally means ‘new beat’

It became popular in the USA because of 3 men (J. Gilberto, A. Jobim, and S. Getz) who collaborated on the hit song Girl from Impanema

Bossa nova is a lighter form of samba, with less of a percussive feel, and more complicated harmonies.

One note Samba

This is just a little samba built upon a single note,

Other notes are bound to follow but the root is still that note.

Now the new one is the consequence of the on we’ve just been through,

As I’m bound to be the unavoidable consequence of you.

Composer : Villa Lobos

One of Brazil’s most famous composers.

Wanted Brazilian music to have it’s own national flavour.

Used folk music elements and Brazilian instruments in his works.

The little Train of Caipira – this piece was written as Lobos was riding on a steam engine taking fruit plantation workers to work in Brazil.

The Little Train of the Caipira

1. How does Lobos use instruments and instrumental techniques to show the following?

The engine building steam

Leaving the station

Slowing down to approach the station

Letting off steam

2. How does the piece end?

3. What is the syncopated rhythm that features in the main melody?

Carnival Samba!

Read through the assessment tasks carefully.