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MSH 115 Introduction to World Music

Analyzing the son jarocho fandango

Watch the two videos of fandangos on Blackboard. Pay attention to the actions in the videos that

are “participatory.” Use the chart below to guide you as you watch the fandangos. The chart is

meant for you to give order to the beginning of your fandango analysis.

You do not have to turn in this chart. It is for your notes.

Definition

Participatory music “is a special type of artistic practice in which there are no artist-audience

distinctions, only participants and potential participants performing different roles, and the

primary goal is to involve the maximum number of people in some performance role” (Turino

2008:26).

Type of

Participatory

Action:

Questions for describing the action: Your description of action:

Playing of

instruments

What instruments are being played?

Who is playing instruments? Are

there many or just a few instruments?

Dancing on the

tarima

Who is dancing on the tarima?

Are they men, women, old, young?

(Does the dance seem to include or

exclude anyone?)

Are the dancers all dancing at once or

is there an order to the dancers? (Do

dancers all dance at once?)

Do dancers make the same steps

while someone sings or do dancers

change their steps?

Singing Who sings? Does everyone sing at

once or is it sequential or

simultaneous participation? What is

the order to the singing?

How do the voices sound?

Repetition What musical features are repeated

over and over? Do you hear the same

harmonic cycle over and over?

(Listen to the repeated sounds in the

jaranas). Do the dancers repeat

certain step patterns? Are the voices

ordered in a way that is repetitive

too?

Dense musical

textures and

timbres

Is there a dense musical timbres? Do

the many instruments have a cloaking

function? Is there lots of sonic

overlap among the instruments?

Feathered

beginnings &

endings

Do performers start one-at-a-time? In

a layered way?

Simultaneous or

sequential

participation

Are dancers, instrument players, and

singers participating all at once? Or

are they taking turns?