Music genres of Latin America
from the DemiDec Cram Kit
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- Character villancico
- popular satirical villancico
- Cuarteto
- Argentine dance and music created by Leonor Marzano in 1943; characterisitc tunga-tunga rhythm
- Villancico
- vocal music that entered Church music
- Motets
- Latin text with polyphonic choral music
- Mariachi
- symbol of Mexico; uses trumpets, vocalists, violins, guitarron, vihuela, guitar and optional harp
- Hymns
- any other sacred song
- Magnificats
- masses for three choirs
- Passions
- accounts of the Crucifixion
- Tango
- Argentine dance in duple meter; merged the milonga and the habanera
- Spanish romance
- narrative epic ballad
- Norteno
- borderland Mexican music; traditionally uses the bandoneon and the bajo sexto
- Son nica
- Nicaraguan song created by Camilo Zapata in the 1930s in response to Mexican mariachi
- Lamentations
- biblical verses by Jeremiah
- Opera
- Italian dramatic art form; popular in South America
- Psalms
- poems from Book of Psalms
- Corrido
- narrative Mexican song in triple meter; derived from the Spanish romance and the decima
- Samba
- Brazilian national music with diverse history; most popular style is the escola de samba; percussion section called the bateria; characteristic short-long-short rhythm