History of Music in Peru

The music of Peru is a union of sounds and patterns drawing on Peru’s Andean Spanish and African origins. Andean influences can maybe best heard in wind instruments and the shape of the melodies, while the African influences can be heard in the rhythm and drumming instruments and the European influences can be also heard in the harmonies and cord instruments. The Pre-Columbia Andean music was played on drums and wind instruments not the same as the European pip and tabor custom. Andean tritonic and pentatonic scales were expanded during the colonial era into hexatonic and sometime, diatonic scale.

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