Music Q2-1 part 2

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These are instruments that were during the Aztec Empire (c. 1345-1521 CE) and Mayan Civilization (1800 BC AD 950). Aztec and Mayan people are people who lived in Southern Mexico and Northern Central America Central.

Aztec and Mayan instruments

It is a flute variety from the Aztec culture made of clay with decorations of abstract designs or images of their deities.

Tlapitzalli

It is a Mexican slit drum hollowed out and carved from a piece of hardwood with designs representing human figures or animals to be used for both religious and recreational purposes.

Teponaztli

It is a wind instrument made from a seashell usually of a large sea snail. It is prepared by cutting a hole in its spine near the apex, and then blown into as if it were a trumpet.

Conch

It is a hand percussion instrument whose sound is produced by scraping a group of notched sticks with another stick, creating a series of rattling effects.

Rasp

It is a Mexican upright tubular drum used by the Aztecs and other ancient civilizations. It is made of wood opened at the bottom and standing on three legs cut from the base, with its stretched skin beaten by the hand or a wooden mallet.

Huehueti

These are instrument that were being played during the civilization of Inca between c. 1400 and 1533 CE in Pre-Columbian America, which was centered in what is now Peru. The Incas built one of the largest, most tightly controlled empires the world has ever known.

Incan instruments

It is an ancient vessel flute made of clay or ceramic with four to 12 finger holes and a mouthpiece that projected from the body.

Ocarina

These are ancient instruments tuned to different scalar varieties, played by blowing across the tubetop.

Zampoñas(Panpines)

These are the instruments that were being played during the Andean. Civilization (c. 3000 BCE 1537). This civilization is considered indigenous and not derived from other civilizations mainly because they came from the river valleys of the coastal desserts of Peru.

Andean instruments

It is a side-blown cane flute that is played all year round.

Siku

These are vertical duct flutes with a mouthpiece similar to that of a recorder, used during the rainy season.

Tarkas

These are vertical cane flutes with an end-notched made from fragile bamboo. They are used during the dry season.

Quenas

It is an extremely popular band in Mexico whose original ensemble consisted of violins, guitars, harp, and an enormous guitarron. Mariachi music is extremely passionate and romantic with their blended harmonies and characterized by catchy rhythms.

Mariachi

It is a popular African courtship dance with European and African instrumentation and characteristics, originating in Panama and Colombia. It contains varying rhythmic meters.

Cumbia

It is a foremost Argentinian and Uruguayan urban popular song and dance and remains a 20th century nationalistic Argentinian piece of music that is most expressive.

Tango

It is a ballroom dance originated in Cuba in 1953 that was derived from the mambo.

Cha cha

It is a popular recreational dance with Afro-Cuban origin. It is normally used as a ballroom dance where a couple would be in an embrace though slightly apart, with the rocking of the hips to a fast-fast-slow sequence.

Rumba

It is the slower and gentler version of the Cuban Samba, originated in the 1950s. It is the Portuguese term for "new trend". This genre integrates melody, harmony and rhythm into swaying feel and oftenly sang in a nasal manner. Antonio Carlos Jobim is the foremost international figure of Bossa nova while Sitti Navarro is his Filipino counterpart.

Bossa nova

It is an urban popular music and dance style that originated in Jamaica in the mid 1960s. It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat and the offbeat rhythm section. Bob Marley is the best-known proponent of reggae who hails from Jamaica.

Reggae

It is a 20th century social dance that originated after 1910 in the USA. This dance had no fixed step pattern, instead borrowing from other dance forms and having a simple forward/backward sequence.

Foxtrot

It is a theatrical Spanish dance used by the Spaniards in bullfights which means "double step". The dance is arrogant and dignified where the dancer takes strong steps forward with the heels accompanied by artistic hand movements, foot stomping, sharp and quick.

Paso Doble

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