A trip through Latin America

This article will take you on a trip through Latin America, starting in Mexico, travelling through the Andes and the Amazon rainforest, before ending in Brazil. With a whole continent to cover this is something of a whirlwind tour that cannot possibly take in every country or musical genre, but the hope is that the snapshots provided here could be used as a solid starting point for creating a fun unit of work on Latin American music.

The background and contextual information is accompanied by transcriptions and analyses of characteristic pieces, which can be used as a basis for performance or composition.