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Costa Rica

Discover the rich music culture of Costa Rica with traditional instruments like Xylophone, Congas, Cuatro, and Percussion. Learn about the vibrant Baile Folklorico dances and the tropical climate of the country.

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Costa Rica

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  1. Costa Rica

  2. Costa Rica is in Central America. • Between Nicaragua and Panama.

  3. Locating Costa Rica

  4. Instruments

  5. Musical Instruments Info Xylophone, Congas, Cuatro and Percussioninstruments ofAfro-Cuban origins are mainly used in Costa Rica. They use wood and metals to make their instruments. The age of their instruments is unknown, but drums have a known age of up to 300 years.

  6. Percussion Percussion is anything that produces a sound when being hit by something, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration.

  7. Cuatro • One of the Latin American instruments of the guitar family. • It is smaller than the guitar. • Means four in Spanish, although the current instruments may havemore thanfour stringsthey originally had only four.

  8. Conga Congas are tall Cuban drums from Africa. Most modern congas have fiber glass or wood shells. There Various rhythms for the conga.

  9. Xylophones The xylophone is from the idiophone family. It is a key role in many genres and cultures. There are wooden bars in various lengths and sizes.

  10. Baile Folklorico Dancing

  11. Climate Very hot and tropical country. Costa Rica has two seasons: dry and green. It is a Central American country which means the weather is going to be quite tropical.

  12. Government The country of Costa Rica has a democratic republic government. This government does support music.

  13. Vocal Music • In Costa Rican music they Either sing, or sing, dance, and play an instrument. When Making music they will right it down, then memorize it and most likely improvise.

  14. Other Info Their traditional clothing is colorful skirts and solid colored pants and buttoned down shirts. Many dances have also come from this country.

  15. Bibliography IMAGESCosta Rica flag: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/flags/cs-lgflag.gifxylophone :http://www.jahgad.com/images/xylophone.jpgdrums: http://photos.igougo.com/images/p169660-Boracay_Island-Bongo_Drums.jpghttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.interkulti.net/worldparty/ENG/images/didgeridoo.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.interkulti.net/worldparty/ENG/australia.html&h=300&w=416&sz=18&hl=en&start=9&um=1&usg=__nfbhzIc52NmeBpvSemJpBysaUi4=&tbnid=9v5sTp_xLssqiM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=125&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddidgeridoo%26um%3D1%26hl%3Denmap: http://geology.com/world/costa-rica-map.gifworld http://www.aboutromania.com/World2.gifnorth America http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/north_america_ref02.jpg http://photos.igougo.com/images/p169660-Boracay_Island-Bongo_Drums.jpghttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.interkulti.net/worldparty/ENG/images/didgeridoo.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.interkulti.net/worldparty/ENG/australia.html&h=300&w=416&sz=18&hl=en&start=9&um=1&usg=__nfbhzIc52NmeBpvSemJpBysaUi4=&tbnid=9v5sTp_xLssqiM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=125&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddidgeridoo%26um%3D1%26hl%3Denmap:http://geology.com/world/costa-rica-map.gifworld http://www.aboutromania.com/World2.gifnorth america http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/north_america_ref02.jpgcentral americahttp://www.ciponline.org/central_america/central_america_map.gifvideos: conga: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amB8tBIOb-gxylophone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtyknQvcQOQcuatro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtrsMo_AwAMpercussion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhdm1b09iukInformation: conga: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congapercussion:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percussionxylophone:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylophonecuatro: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuatrothe rest world music project research guide.

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