music 127: Native Cultures
They started coming:
40,000 years ago
Check the Mayan percussion instruments
Big bass drum, Marimba, and Turtle drums
Quichua (Inca) and Aymara percussion instruments
Bombo, Wankara, Chajchas and Tun
Who composed the pieces Xochipilli?
Carlos Chávez
Who had a system of accountability called Quipus?
Incas
Check the 2 Inca towns in this list
Machu Picchu and Cuzco
Mayans speak
Mayan
What 2 cultures played hompaks and conch shells?
Mayan and Aztec
What people experienced a huge environmental and political crisis shortly after 800 A.D.?
Mayans
Who had a complete writing system?
Mayans
Who invented first the concept of 0?
Mayans
Who is Carlos Chávez?
Mexican classical composer
The right name for the Aztecs would be
Mexicas
Mayans are from
Central America & Mexico
3 Andean instruments with Spanish influence
Charango, Chirimia, Harp
What instruments contemporary musicians Steve Turre plays?
Conch shell, Trombone
Aztec percussion instruments
Huehuetl, Teponazli, Tehuehuetls
Their DNA is related to
Mongols, Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans
Aztecs spoke
Nahuatl
Incas lived in
Peru (Andes Mountains)
The Aztec were an unified empire?
Yes
The Mayans were
A number of city/states without political unity
The first inhabitants of the Americas came from:
Asia
names of the Quichua emperor (Inca) and the Aztec emperor (Tlatoani) at the time of the Conquest
Atahualpa, Moctezuma
Aztec wind instruments
Atecocolli, Coyoahulli, Huey Acátl, Tzitzilli
Mark the instruments used by the ancient Mayans
Atecocolli, Hompak,. Clay, bone, wood, and reed flutes
Tiahuanaco, in Bolivia, was most likely inhabited by the ancient (30)
Aymara
Check the 2 Andean cultures
Aymaras and Quichuas
Check the 3 cultures that still use the chirimia
Aymaras, Quichuas, Mayans
They came through:
Behring Strait (Beringia)
The isolation of the Americas provoked problems of
Immunity against viruses & bacterias
What is the name of the main scale used by the Natives of all the Americas
Pentatonic
Quichua (Inca) and Aymara instruments
Quena, Tarka, Pututu or Erkencho, Sikus, Pinkillo, Moseño
Incas spoke
Quichua
The right name for the Incas would be
Quichuas
The Incas had
Roads, Silos, & Public Education
The instruments used by the Native America cultures belonged to these families
Winds and Percussion
The Incas were a unified empire?
Yes
After the collapse of their states in Central American and Southern Mexico the Mayans moved to
Yucatan
