Music Quarter 2-Module 1

Afro-Latin American
and Popular Music
What I know
1. It is a single tube closed at one end and blown
like a bottle to produce sound.
a. Fulani
b. Lute
c. Mbira
d. Talking Drum
What I know
2. The following statements describe Spiritual
Music except________.

a. It is also known as “Negro Spiritual”

b. It is a way of imparting Christian Values
c. It is a way of venting the hardships of slaves.
d. Its melodies are expressive and soulful.
What I know
3. It is likened to a question-and-answer
sequence in human communication.
a. Blues
b. Call and response
c. Soul
d. Spiritual
What I know
4. It is a musical genre from Nigeria in the
Yoruba tribal style to wake up the
worshippers after fasting during the Muslim
holy feast of Ramadan.
a. Apala
b. Axe
c. Jit
d. Juju
What I know
5. What do a Talking Drum and Djembe have
in common?

a. They are both chordophones.

b. They are both membranophones.
c. They are both idiophones.
d. None of the Above
What I know
6. It is instantly recognizable from the
counterpoint between the bass and drum
downbeat and the offbeat rhythm section.
a. Reggae
b. Salsa
c. Samba
d. Bossa Nova
What I know
7. African traditional music is used primarily
during .

a. birth
b. death
c. marriage
d. All of the above
What I know
8. The term used to describe the merging of
West African with Black American music
is_____.
a. Afrobeat
b. Axe
c. Jive
d. Kwassa Kwassa
What I know
9. It is a ballroom dance originated in Cuba
and it has a normal count of “two-three-
chachacha” and “four and one, two, three.”
a. Cha cha
b. Cumbia
c. Rumba
d. Tango
What I know
10. The best-known proponent of Reggae is .

a. Bob Marley
b. Peter Tosh
c. Dennis Brown
d. Jimmy Cliff
What I know
11. It is the English term of Paso Doble.

a. Duo Dance
b. Double Step
c. Pass Dance
d. Two Step
What I know
12. Who is the best known Bossa Nova
singer in the Philippines?

a. Charice Pempengco
b. KZ Tandingan
c. Sarah Geronimo
d. Sitti Navarro
What I know
13. From what part of Kudu is the Kudu
Horn made of?

a. Kudu Skull
b. Kudu Bones
c. Kudu Skin
d. Kudu Antelope
What I know
14. It is a social dance with marked
influences from Cuba and Puerto Rico.

a. Cha cha
b. Jive
c. Salsa
d. Samba
What I know
15. Which of the following is not a major
influence of the music of Latin America?

a. African
b. Indigenous
c. Italian
d. Spanish-Portuguese
 Music Quarter 2-Module 1

Lesson 1: Music of
Africa
 Can you remember my music style?
AVANT-GARDE
John Cage was an avant-garde
American composer who had a major
influence on twentieth-century musical
composition. He is associated with a
genre called chance music, which
leaves certain aspects of a piece to
chance or the performer's decisions.

John Cage
 Can you remember my music style?
IMPRESSIONISM
Debussy is considered the founder and
leading exponent of musical
Impressionism, and his adoption of
non-traditional scales and tonal
structures was paradigmatic for many
composers who followed.

Claude Debussy
 Can you remember my music style?

IMPRESSIONISM
.

Arnold Schoenberg
 Can you remember my music style?

Varèse's music is dissonant,

nonthematic, and. rhythmically
asymmetric; he conceived of it as
bodies of sound in space. After the
early 1950s, when he finally gained
access to the electronic sound
equipment he desired, he concentrated
on electronic music.

Edgard Varese
 Can you remember my music style?

Neoclassicism
.

Edgard Varese
Do you know them?
Can you remember my music style?

1. What. are your

impressions about
African music?
Can you remember my music style?

2. Can you
.
name
some instruments
that you can hear
from the songs?
Can you remember my music style?

3. What can you say

.
about the vocal
productions of
African singers?
 What is it
African music is one of the most influential styles
of music in the world. It has greatly influenced the
music of Contemporary America, Latin America
and European music. Its highly energetic and
rhythmically challenging beats are quite universal.
Jazz, Gospel and Spiritual, and Rhythm and Blues
(RnB) are genres of music that have deep roots to
African music.
 What is it
The music of Africa is the product of the
diverse history, topography, and unique musical
heritage of more than 50 countries. It is the
result of the fusion of traditional and European
influences which was a result of the
colonization of Europe to most of the continent
until the 19th Century.
TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF
AFRICA
African traditional music is mainly functional
in nature which is used primarily in ceremonial
rites, such as birth, death, marriage, succession,
worship, and spirit invocations. Others are
work related or social in nature, while many
traditional societies view their music as a form
of entertainment.
Some Types of African Music

Apala (Akpala)
Afrobeat
It is a term used to It is a musical genre from
describe the fusion Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal
of West African with style to wake up the
Black American worshippers after fasting
music. during the Muslim holy feast
of Ramadan.
Some Types of African Music

Axe Jit
It is a popular musical It is a hard and fast percussive
genre from Salvador, Zimbabwean dance music
Bahia, and Brazil. It fuses played on drums with guitar
the Afro-Caribbean styles accompaniment influenced by
mbira-based guitar styles.
of marcha, reggae, and
calypso.
Some Types of African Music

Jive Juju
It is a popular music style from
It is a popular form of Nigeria that relies on the
South African music traditional Yoruba rhythms. A
featuring a lively and drum kit, keyboard, pedal steel
guitar, and accordion are used
uninhibited variation of along with the traditional dun-
the jitterbug, a form of dun (talking drum or squeeze
swing dance. drum).
Some Types of African Music

Kwasa kwasa Marabi

It is a music style that begun It is a South African three-chord
in Zaire in the late 1980s township music of the 1930s-
popularized by Kanda 1960s which evolved into
Bongo Man. In this dance African Jazz. It is characterized
style, the hips move back by simple chords in varying
vamping patterns and repetitive
and forth while the arms
harmony over an extended
move following the hips.
period.
Vocal forms of African Music

Maracatu Blues
It is the combination of It is one of the most widely
strong rhythms of African performed musical forms of the
percussion instruments and late 19th century. The melodies
Portuguese melodies. This of blues are expressive and
form of music is being soulful. The slaves and their
descendants used to sing these as
paraded along the streets by
they work in the fields.
up to 100 participants.
Vocal forms of African Music

Soul Spiritual
It is a popular music genre of the It originated in the Unites States
1950s and 1960s which originated and created by African-
in the African-American
American slaves. It is also
community throughout the United
States. It combines elements of known as “Negro Spiritual”. It
African-American gospel music, became a means of imparting
rhythm and blues, and often jazz. Christian values and a way of
venting their hardships as slaves.
Vocal forms of African Music

Call and Response

It is linked to a question and answer
sequence in human communication. The
slaves used to sing these songs while
simultaneously doing all their tasks in a day.
 Musical Instruments
of Africa
African music has a very wide range of genres. It
includes all the major instrumental genres of
western music including strings, winds, and
percussion, along with a tremendous variety of
specific African musical instruments for solo or
ensemble playing.