Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach

WORKBOOK: MODULE 14

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Exercise 14.9

Harmonize the melody below using the letter names and figured bass symbols written above the melodic line.

• Root position triads are indicated solely by letter name. For this exercise, first inversion triads are indicated
  by a “6.” Second inversion triads are labeled “6/4.”


• Be sure to place the bass staff triads directly under the corresponding treble staff notes.


• Count and tap the rhythm of this piece, using the right hand for the treble staff and left hand for the bass
  staff.

“Mambo No. 5” (D. Pérez Prado)

Fm Bb 6 Fm^666

4 Bb6Eb Ab 4 Eb Ab 4

Fm Bb^666

4 Fm Bb6Eb Ab 4 Eb Ab 4

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The mambo(or “conversation with the gods” inYoruba, the language of the Cuban slaves from Africa) is a Cuban style of music

and dance form. The Cuban band director and composer Dámasco Pérez Prado created the mambo dance steps in 1943, resulting

in the mambo craze that swept New York City in the 1950s. The music was rhythmic with syncopations and full of energy.

Cultural note: Mambo