1. Dominican Republic Taíno Music By: Vanessa Balazs

2. Importance of Music Music important to Taíno daily life and rituals –To help complete daily tasks –To communicate with zemis (deities) –Used in annual religious and social celebrations and for harvest seasons and solstices An Antillean Zemi Taínos playing instruments and dancing

3. Taíno Instruments Utilized their natural resources to produce instruments Drums maguay Castanets with clamshells Rattles maracas Taíno Drum Taíno Maraca

4. Taíno Instruments Trumpets Flutes “fotuos” Brass bells (brought by the Spanish) Shells, dried seeds, natural objects to produce beautiful sounds Conch Shell Trumpet http://www.allempires.net /forum_posts.asp?TID=2 1589&PID=398816

5. Music Today Music remains an important part of the Dominican Republic’s culture Continuation of traditional instruments like the maguay (drum) and maracas Used in celebrations today like Carnival in the Dominican Republic

6. Resources Guitar, Lynne (2006, December). New Notes about Taíno Music and Its Influence on Contemporary Dominican Life, Issues in Caribbean Amerindian Studies (Occassional Papers of the Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink), 7(1). Retrieved February 15, 2009, from http://www.centrelink.org/GuitarTaínoMusicEN.html Keegan, William F. and Carlson, Lisbeth A. (2008). Talking Taíno. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. Pictures and Music http://ancientantilles.com/mythandreligion.html camelsnose.files.wordpress.com http://www.allempires.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=21589&PID=39881 6http://www.allempires.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=21589&PID=39881 6