These are questions from a listening quiz in another class on Latin American music. You may not know all the terms here, but you can get an idea of the format that your own listening quiz will have. You will hear a song excerpt twice, and answer several questions that pertain to that exerpt. (On your quiz there will be three different song excerpts.)

Example 1
1. What country is this music from?

2. Which two related styles are contrasted in this recording?
a) rumba and son montuno
b) samba and bossa nova
c) zabumba and baião
d) tango and nuevo tango

3. The composer of this song, and the most well-known figure in the development of this new style around 1960:
a) Chico Buarque
b) Astor Piazzola
c) Arsenio Rodriguez
d) Antonio Carlos Jobim

4. The ensemble of instruments that plays at the beginning and end of this excerpt is called:
a) conjunto
b) banda de pifano
c) charanga
d) batucada

INSTRUMENTS
accordion
bajo sexto
bongos
claves
conga
cuatro
güiro
timbales
tres

GENRES
bolero
bomba
boogaloo (bugalú)
cha cha chá
corrido
cumbia
latin soul
mambo
plena
polka
ranchera
reggaetón
rumba
salsa
seis
son/son montuno
tango

ENSEMBLES
charanga
conjunto (Cuban & Tejano different)
orquesta tejana

MUSICIANS/GROUPS
Mario Bauzá
Ruben Blades
Call 13
Willie Colón
Conjunto Bernal
Cortijo y su Combo (Rafael Cortijo)
Joe Cuba
Daddy Yankee
Rafael Hernandez
Ivy Queen
Hector Lavoe
Machito
Narciso Martinez
Lydia Mendoza
Johnny Pacheco
Los Panchos
Eddie Palmieri
Tito Puente
Ismael Rivera
Tito Rodriguez
Selena

MUSICAL TERMS
call and response
clave
coro
guajeo
montuno
sonero
tumbao

OTHER TERMS
chicano
jibaro
nuyorican
tejano

EXAM RULES:
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