Listening Quiz

who composed and performed Las Alturas de Simpson?

Composed by Miguel Failde, performed by Acerma y su Danzonera

Who performed Bouncing Around?

New Orleans orchestra with Lorenzo Tio Jr. on the clarinet

Name the region and composer “Versa est in luctum”

Puebla, Mexico, Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla

Who performed India del agua

Enerolisa Núñez

Who performed El Conde de Loiza (a Puerto Rican bomba)?

Los Hermanos Ayala

Who performed "Xicochi, xicochi” and “Jesós de mi gorazón”

The Ars Longa de la Havane ensemble

Who performed the live version of “El Chuchumbé” with heavy guitar strumming and tambourines?

Mono Blanco

Who performed the version of “El Chuchumbé” that starts with single guitar picking and man and woman alternately singing?

Las Cafeteras

tarima

hard wood floor that people gather around for a fandango (where son jarrocho is performed). dancers use the tarima as a percussive instrument with their feet.

name the region of the song that starts with “aahehh moyu bayo richa”

afro-cuban

Name the song, region, type of song of the song that starts with a female singer and then a response from the chorus

India del agua, Dominican Republic, creolized salve

Why are Afro-Dominican Salves performed?

To offer thanks for answered prayers. They are festive with prayer and socializing, drinking, dancing, raised vocal pitch, improv, and drumming

Name the song, region, and performer of the song that starts with heavy guitar strumming

El Chuchumbe, Veracruz Mexico, Mono Blanco.

Name the song, region, language, and type of song starts with “sheecoshee, sheecoshee”

Xicochi, Xicochi, Mexico, Nahuatl, villancico

Where are son jarochos performed?

at fandangos

What do son jarochos critique

colonial authorities and the spanish inquisition

what is the structure/meter of El Chuchumbe

seguidilla/decima

name the region, type of song, and rhythm of the instrumental piece that starts with clarinet and drum

New Orleans, Danzon Cubano, Habenera rhythm

what rhythm does the bomba have?

Sica rhythm

what is the main instrument in El Chuchumbe

Jarana requinto