1. Music from South
America
Health and Social Education
How do the Arts promote social responsibility and a balanced
lifestyle?

2. 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

3.  Leno Verde (Green
Let’s start at Wood).
the beginning!  INTRO – name the
instrument.
Andean Music
The oldest Music from Latin  Section 1 – panpipe
America – from the native enters. Descibe what you
Indians who live in the hear.
Andean Mountains.
‘Ancient’ instruments like
 Section 2 – 1st panpipe
panpipes, flutes, guitars,
with main melody,
repeated by the 2nd
harps, and drums.
panpipe.
Spanish and Portugusese
explorers brought with them  Transition – charango +
their own sounds and dances voice
when they arrived and this
‘fused’ with the native Indian  Section 3 – panpipe. How
styles. many notes does its
Tango (Argentina); Samba theme here have?
and Bossa Nove (Brazil); Salsa
and Rhumba (Cuba)
 ENDING – how does the
piece end?

4. Extra listening
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.

5. 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?

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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?

12. Carnival Samba!
 Read through the assessment tasks carefully.