First/ Mestizo music in Latin America combines Indigenous, European and African musical traits to create new regional genres and new instruments. How does a typical Mestizo ensemble reflect these different origins? What types of traditional instruments are common? What types of newly created instruments might you hear and how do they reflect this fusion of cultures?

Your discussion post should be around 150 words (5 pts), cover all of the topic points (5 pts), and be submitted on time (5 pts). You are also required to respond to at least one of your fellow classmate’s posts (5 pts), and give constructive feedback and/or pose questions that are relevant to the discussion topics. There are 20 points possible for this assignment.

second / For our final Discussion Board, I would like you each to discuss which musical culture you found most interesting during this course. Which instruments did you find most interesting and why? Were there any particular activities you found intriguing? Do you feel like you now know more about our diverse planet, and about how musical activities reflect the cultures that create them?