Music of Latin America is the product of three major influences:
Indigenous
Spanish-Portuguese
African
Indigenous Latin-American Music
Natives were found to be using local drum and percussion instruments such as the guiro, maracas, and turtle shells, and wind instruments such as zampona (pan pipes) and quena (notched-end flutes).
Materials came from hollow tree trunks, animal skins, fruit shells, dry seeds, jaguar claws, animal and human bones and especially-treated inflated eyes of tigers.
It was largely functional in nature, being used for religious worship and ceremonies
Afro-Latin American Music
African influence on Latin American music is most pronounced in its rich and varied rhythmic patterns produced by the drums and various percussion instruments.
Euro-Latin American Music
Melodies of the Renaissance period were used in Southern Chile and the Colombian Pacific coasts.
Stepwise melodies were preferred in the heavily Hispanic and Moorish-influenced areas of Venezuela and Colombia
What instruments are used for Indigenous Latin-American Music?
