Folk music

Coastal music

The Pacific coast of Ecuador is known for the amor fino, a kind of popular song, as well as a variety of dance music. For other meanings of Pacific, see Pacific (disambiguation). ...

Pasillo, pasacalle and yarabi are popular folk dances. El pasillo is played with guitar and rondin, the latter being similar to a flute, and is usually downtempo; it is descended from the waltz. El pasacalle is a form of dance music, while the sentimental el yarabi is probably the most popular form in Ecuador. Pasillo (Spanish: Corridor) is a genre of indigenous Latin music. ... In music a passacaglia (French: passacaille, Spanish: passacalle or pasacalle) is a musical form and the corresponding court dance. ... // The Pacific coast of Ecuador is known for the amor fino, a kind of popular song, as well as a variety of dance music. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. ... A waltz (German: , Italian: , French: , Catalan: ) is a ballroom and folk dance in   time, done primarily in closed position. ... Dance music is music composed or played specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. ...

Esmeraldas, Carchi and Imbabura

The bambuco is a dance known from Esmeraldas [1]. Esmeraldas is also known for folk instruments like the bombos, conunos, and guasá. Bambuco is sometimes said to be the unofficial music of Colombia. ...

The people of the Chota River valley and the province of Carchi have invented a form of music called bomba, which has achieved some fame outside the region; bomba is accompanied by guitars, maracas and güiros. The Chota are also known for the bandas mochas. This article needs cleanup. ... Bomba is an African derived musical form from the Chota Rivera area of Ecuador. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Maracas Maracas (sometimes called rhumba shakers) are simple percussion instruments (idiophones), usually played in pairs, consisting of a dried calabash or gourd shell (cuia - kOO-ya) or coconut shell filled with seeds or dried beans. ... Toad shaped güiro from Japan The güiro is a percussion instrument consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side. ...

Central Ecuador

The indigenous communities of the Ecuadorian highlands is largely ]] flutes. Guitars and brass bands are also found throughout the area. Popular performers include Peguche, Benitez-Valencia and Ñanda-Mañachi [2]. The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. ...

Andean music (La Sierra)

The mountainous, Andean region of Ecuador, the Sierra, is home to a style of music called albazo. The music of the Otavalo people are well-known worldwide. A small panpipe called the rondador is the most distinctive instrument, but ensembles are typically groups of wind instruments, guitar trios or brass bands. Folk rhythms include cachullapi, yumbo, danzante and sanjuanito [3]. Otavalo with Imbabura in the background. ... Pan pipes (also known as the panflute or the syrinx or quills) is an ancient musical instrument based on the principle of the stopped pipe, consisting usually of ten or more pipes of gradually increasing length. ... A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube), in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at the end of the resonator. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A brass band a musical group consisting mostly or entirely of brass instruments, often with a percussion section. ...

Musicians like Huayanay, Jatari and Pueblo Nuevo have helped to popularize Andean-Ecuadoran music. Jatari is a town and a nagar panchayat in Aligarh district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. ... Pueblo Nuevo (Spanish: New Town) is a toponym shared by several places: Colombia Pueblo Nuevo, Córdoba Mexico Pueblo Nuevo, Durango Pueblo Nuevo, Guanajuato Nicaragua Pueblo Nuevo, Estelí Peru Pueblo Nuevo, Peru Venezuela Pueblo Nuevo, Falcón Pueblo Nuevo, Zulia This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated...

Folk instruments

• cunuca: a percussion instrument similar to a conga drum
• bombos
• conuno

Guaitars Cellos Clarilnets= trumpets A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being struck with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. ... Conga is a drum, a type of music, and a type of dance (Conga Line). ...

Music institutions

The Fundación de Desarrollo Social Afroecuatoriano (AZUCAR) has existed since 1993, and offers a variety of workshops for all ages in music and dance, as well as handicrafts and other topics [4]. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

Music festivals

Ecuador has many annual festivals, with nearly every village celebrating a Roman Catholic Saint. The annual festival in August held in San Antonio de Pichincha is particularly well-known [5].

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