Inca Music: El Condor Pasa, Roxsana Ambicho

El Condor Pasa is a typical Inca dance, based on authentic Incan folk melodies. Around 1916, Peruvian composer Daniel Alomia Robles notated this popular traditional melody and used it as the basis for an instrumental suite. The English Lyrics, 'If I could, I surely would' words, are by Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel)

Roxsana Consuelo Ambicho Mays, was born in the beautiful city of Huanuco, Peru, the birthplace of Daniel Alomías Robles. Roxsana today is one of the voices privileged Peruvian folklore that, based on his extraordinary gifts as an interpreter, promises to become a musical ambassador of Peru at the international level.

• The antara is a panpipe of only one tier of pipes of cane of different lengths, which expresses each one a height.

• The charango is a small South American stringed instrument of the lute family, about 66 cm long, traditionally made with the shell of the back of an armadillo. It typically has 10 strings in five courses of 2 strings each, although other variations exist.

• The siku (Quechua) or zampoña (Spanish), is a traditional Andean panpipe.

• The quena is the traditional flute of the Andes. Usually made of bamboo, it has 6 finger holes and one thumb hole and is open on both ends.

• The kenacho is a flute, also without mouthpiece, similar to the quena but bigger.

• The pezuna is an instrument made of goat hoofs tied together.

• The aykhori is a big recorder made of reed. The smallest pipe is used to send the breath into the mouthpiece.

• The tarka is a wooden flute, appeared after the conquest.

• The pinkillo is a post-colombean recorder made of reed.

• The rondador is a set of chorded bamboo panpipes that produces two tones simultaneously.

• The bombo is a kind of bass drum used in traditional music in Spain, Portugal and South America.

• The cajón is a kind of box drum played by slapping the front face (generally thin plywood) with the hands. The cajón is the most widely used Afro-Peruvian musical instrument in the 20th century.

See also:
El Condor Pasa by Mind Map, Espiritu Andino, Los Incas (Urubamba)-1963, Incas Wasi, Roxsana Ambicho, the Inkas, Paul Mauriat, Gigliola Cinquetti, Marc Anthony, BZN, European version, Los Pasteles Verdes, Agua Marina,  Mariachi Vargas, Chinese version, Simon & Garfunkel, Different versions, Condor Condor, Placido Domingo, Los Calchakis