Huayno

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Huayno (Waynu in

siku (panpipe), accordion, saxophone, charango, lute, violin, guitar, and mandolin. Some elements of huayno originate in the music of the pre-Columbian Andes, especially on the territory of the former Inca Empire
. Huayno utilizes a distinctive rhythm in which the first beat is stressed and followed by two short beats.

Huayno players and dancers in Peru

Subgenres

  • Carnaval Ayacuchano, a holiday genre from the
    Ayacucho Region
    , Peru
  • Hiyawa or hiyaway (
    Quechua: hiyawa(y), Spanish: jiyawa(y), jiyahua(y)), a dry-season ritual song and dance from north of Potosí Department
    , Bolivia

Dance

The dance begins with the man offering his right arm to the woman as an invitation for her to dance (there is even a special word for this action,

Quechua
: wayñukuy "to invite woman to dance a wayñu"). Alternatively, he puts his handkerchief on the shoulder of the woman. Next, the partners walk along an enclosure, and finally they dance. The dance consists of an agile and vigorous stamping of the feet during which the man follows the woman, opposite to front, touching her with his shoulders after having turned around, and only occasionally he touches his right arm to the left hand of his partner while both swing to the rhythm of the music. His movements are happy and roguish.

Notable examples

References

  1. ^ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)

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