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Latin American Music

The lesson focuses on Afro-Latin American music, aiming to teach learners about the classification of musical instruments, the background of Latin American music, and common instruments used in this genre. It outlines five classifications of instruments: aerophone, chordophone, idiophone, membranophone, and electrophone. Additionally, it highlights specific instruments such as guiro, mayohuacan, claves, maracas, and bongos, which are integral to the music of the region.

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Latin American Music

The lesson focuses on Afro-Latin American music, aiming to teach learners about the classification of musical instruments, the background of Latin American music, and common instruments used in this genre. It outlines five classifications of instruments: aerophone, chordophone, idiophone, membranophone, and electrophone. Additionally, it highlights specific instruments such as guiro, mayohuacan, claves, maracas, and bongos, which are integral to the music of the region.

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Lesson 1:

Afro-Latin
American Music
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the learner will be able to:
• Recall the 5 classification of instruments
• Discuss the background of Latin American music
• Identify the common instrument used in Latin
American music
• Listen and watch to the dances and music of Latin
American music.
My musicality…
List down up to 3 instruments you play, including voice.

Voice, piano / keyboard, acoustic / electric guitar, beatbox,


drums, bass, flute, saxophone, violin, and others.
5 CLASSIFICATION OF INSTRUMENT
1. Aerophone
2. Chordophone
3. Idiophone
4. Membranophone
5. Electrophone
Latin America is a
geographical region
that includes two
continents, North
America (consisting
of Central America
and The Caribbean)
and South America.
AFRICAN
LATIN
AMERICAN
a Puerto Rican percussion
instrument played by rubbing a stick
along its body.

GUIRO
a wooden slit idiophone, played by
Indigenous people of the Caribbean

MAYOHUACAN
An Afro-Cuban percussion
instrument made from wooden
sticks and played by tapping each
other.

CLAVES
an Afro-Puerto Rican hand
percussion instrument also known
as rumba shaker.

MARACAS
a pair of small single-headed Afro-
Cuban drums. Typically constructed
of hardwood such as oak or
mahogany for the body and animal
skin for its top.

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