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Peruvian music is an amalgamation of sounds and styles drawing on Peru's Andean, Spanish, and African roots. Andean influences can perhaps be best heard in wind instruments and the shape of the melodies, while the African influences can be heard in the rhythm and percussion instruments, and European influences can be heard in the harmonies and stringed instruments.
This category contains articles relating to musical instruments developed in Peru. Pages in category "Peruvian musical instruments" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Street band from Peru performing El Cóndor Pasa in Tokyo. Andean music is a group of styles of music from the Andes region in South America.. Original chants and melodies come from the general area inhabited by Quechuas (originally from Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile), Aymaras (originally from Bolivia), and other peoples who lived roughly in the area of the Inca Empire prior to European contact.
The cajón is the most widely used Afro-Peruvian musical instrument since the late 19th century. [2] Enslaved people of west and central African origin in the Americas are considered to be the source of the cajón drum. Currently, the instrument is common in musical performance throughout some of the Americas and Spain.
One source suggests that the instrument took its name from its players, who were called charangeros, meaning "someone of questionable character and low morals". [11] Another traces the term to the alteration of a Spanish term, charanga, which could refer to either a type of military music played on wind instruments, or an out-of-tune orchestra ...
The siku is originally from the Aymaras of Peru and Bolivia, where a woman would play her siku as she came down from the mountains.Since the largest siku has every note (A-G), and was too big for the woman, they often got two sikus (usually smaller ones) that would be played together with someone else, so they could play them continuously after each other and thus the scales could fully be played.
The history of Huayno dates back to colonial Peru as a combination of traditional rural folk music and popular urban dance music. High-pitched vocals are accompanied by a variety of instruments, including quena (flute), harp , siku (panpipe), accordion , saxophone , charango , lute , violin , guitar , and mandolin .
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