Author Question: Explain why the Imbabura wawa velorio ritual is a special instance of cada llajta. What will be ... (Read 47 times)

washai · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

Explain why the Imbabura wawa velorio ritual is a special instance of cada llajta.

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Question 2

Describe some of the Andean ensembles who have carried on the traditions of Nueva Cancin and of waynos and sanjuanes in U.S. universities.

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Brenm · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Cada llajta is the idea that every Quichua community has its own unique approach to music, customs, dress, and even the dialect of Quichua. Cotacachi-area wawa velorio reflects local musical repertoire and a local instrument-preference: the diatonic harp.

Answer to Question 2

Toqui AmaruNueva Cancin group of The University of Texas (Austin)
Voces and Taki anintermediate and advanced-level Andean ensemble respectively, from the University of California at Santa Cruz Taki an focuses on traditional Andean musics in Spanish, Quichua/Quechua, and Nueva Cancin musics, sometimes presenting music from a single repertory, (for example, Colombian musics) and sometimes presenting a varied repertory of traditional and Nueva Cancin musics.
Aconcaguaa musical ensemble at Florida State University that performs a variety of Andean musics
Vientofocuses on traditional South-Andean musics for zampoa (bamboo panpipe) and tarqa (a tarqa is a wooden duct flute similar to a recorder); this ensemble frequently performs in Berkeley, California
Los Mapachesan ensemble of some thirty-five to fifty schoolchildren from a school in Berkeley, California, who perform Andean musics on zampoas and other instruments--locally, in concert.
See Worlds of Music for meaning and derivation of names of groups.