MUSC 220 Lecture Notes - Double Entendre, Musical Form, Charango
23 Feb 2014
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Each genre already shared across political boundaries, each travels to other regions, nations, continents. Nueva cancion: from argentina to the rest of the continent, europe, and north america k"antu: represents highland panpipe traditions in brazil, peru. Wayno: peruvian love songs, played by californian duo. Widespread tradition of pipes and flutes throughout the south american continent. The pipes are closed at the bottom, and you blow across them. Melody cannot be played by one person, the melodies is split up between many people. Multiple panpipes, each with two horizontal layers: ira and acra. Hocketing - spreading a melody between multiple instruments. Often from one note to the next, composite melody played by all. Nueva cancion - newly composed songs of socio-political critique. Alternatively feels like 3/4 and 6/8, also known as sesquialtera. Both groups influenced by colonial plantation owners in the 16th century. Sanjuan form similar in both groups: variation in rhythmic patterns, instruments.
