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Andean Folk Music

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The music of the Andes: pentatonic melodies on quena and siku panpipes, the charango, the huayno and its regional cousins, and the mestizo dances and songs of the highland fiestas from Ecuador to Bolivia.

Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and northern Chile and Argentina · emerged Pre-Columbian · peak 20th century

Also called: música andina, andean music

History

Inca and pre-Inca wind and drum traditions absorbed the Spanish guitar and harp after the conquest, and in the twentieth century Andean ensembles carried the sound to Lima, La Paz and, through the nueva canción movement, to the world.

What it sounds like

Quena, siku and charango
Pentatonic melodies
Highland fiesta dances
Melancholic vocal styles

Beneath it: bambuco, bomba del chota, harawi, huaylarsh, huayno, morenada, muliza, saya afroboliviana, tonada potosina, zamacueca

Beside it: huayno

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