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 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 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 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
ed 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?
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