Se Quema La Chumbamba – performed by Familia Valera Miranda
Student Work
1. What country is this music from? (1)
2. What 2 musical cultures interacted here? Where did they come from? (2)
3. This piece is a ‘son’. Explain what a ‘son’ is. (2)
4. It is also a ‘son monuno’. What is this? (1)
5. What is a pregon? (1)
6. What is the coro? (1)
7. When the son montuno started to be used for social dancing rather than work, what was
added to the singing? (2)
8. What is a cuatro?
9. What are the African elements of the song? (3)
10. What are the Spanish / European elements of the song? (3)
11. What is the most important rhythm here? Notate it below, and also describe it fully. (4)
12. What use is made of silence here in the melodic parts? (2)
13. Explain the ‘anticipation bass’ here, and give a relevant example. (2)
14. What remains the same throughout? (2)
15. Listen to the pregon melodic line. Where doe he vary from the printed melody, and how?
(2)
16. What 2 instruments solo in the middle? Describe what happens here as fully as you can. (4)
17. Is the vocal line syllabic or melismatic? (1)
18. What is the metre? (1)
19. What is the texture? (1)
20. What is the tonality? Key? (1)
21. What is the harmony like? (2)