Unit 8 Questions and Answers

Unit 8 Questions and Answers beguine In American popular music, an Americanized form of the Cuban rumba. It has a similar rhythmic feel but lacks the clave rhythm heard in authentic Afro-Cuban music. clave rhythm The characteristic rhythm of Afro-Cuban music. It can be represented as: //X x x X x x X x // x x X x X x x x //. The x's indicate an eight-beat rhythm; X's are accented notes. To create a reverse clave rhythm, switch the two measures. claves Pair of cylindrical wooden sticks that are tapped together downtown Latin style A watered-down version of Afro-Cuban music intended for the white American market. habanera A dance created in Cuba during the early nineteenth century that became popular in both Europe and South America. Its characteristic rhythm resurfaced in the Argentine tango and the cakewalk. mambo First twentieth-century Latin dance fads to develop on American soil; it merged authentic Afro-Cuban son with big-band horns and riffs montuno In Afro-Cuban music, a syncopated accompanying figure, usually played on the piano, that is repeated indefinitely. reverse clave rhythm A version of the clave rhythm, in which the second half of the pattern comes first. tumbao A syncopated bass pattern characteristic of Afro-Cuban music. uptown Latin style The sound of authentic Afro-Cuban music in the 1940s and '50s. The rumba grew out of an Afro-Cuban dance called the mambo. False (son) Which American popular dance has a similar rhythm to the habanera? cakewalk "El Manisero" was the first authentic Cuban song that enjoyed widespread popularity with American audiences. True The tango originated in Puerto Rico. False (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Of all the famous bandleaders in Hollywood, the most filmed bandleader was Xavier Cugat. True A clave rhythm pattern usually consists of five irregularly-spaced taps, spread over two four-beat measures. True The cha-cha-cha was the first of the twentieth-century Latin dance fads in the United States. False (tango) Tito Puente's "Complicacion" marks an important development in Latin popular music in America because: it mixed big-band-style horms with a full Latin percussion section A montuno is: an active pattern played by the piano Which famous classical composer wrote a habanera into an opera? George Bizet Listen to "El Manisero". Does this piece have a normal clave or a reverse clave rhythm? Reverse clave rhythm