The major musical genres in North America. Indian Music In Indian life, music is one of the important means to preserve and continue traditional culture, which depends on oral communication. For them, music not only plays the role of education, entertainment and lyricism, but also has more important spiritual and psychological significance. Although there is no special composer in India, everyone can write their own songs and express their experiences, feelings, ideals, beliefs and life fun at any time. Functions of music: Traditional music genres such as disease treatment and information transmission are roughly as follows: folk songs, songs and dances, instrumental music, etc.

The characteristics of North American music Generally speaking, residents from various sources kept all kinds of music in their original places of residence, and they also merged and blended with each other, resulting in new musical genre forms and musical characteristics. However, there are still obvious differences in style between the two, showing colorful colors as a whole.

The modern inhabitants of Latin America are mainly composed of Indian nations, immigrants and emerging nations. Religious belief: Latin America is composed of many ethnic groups, so its religious belief situation is very complicated. The main religion is Catholicism, followed by Christianity. In addition, Indians believe in primitive religions, Indian immigrants believe in Hinduism and Islam, and Asian immigrants believe in Buddhism. Multi-mixed culture: a multi-mixed culture based on the fusion of African black culture, American Indian culture and oriental Asian culture, which is dominated by European white culture.

Composition factors and overall characteristics of Latin American music 1. Composition factor L (1) Indian factor l 1. Simple melody and unique expression. For example, "Eagle Flying" adopts a pentatonic scale without semitone, and a melody composed of do, re, mi, sol, 1a pentatonic scale forms a unique style and interest. L 2, the rhythm of Indian music is relatively simple. There is no harmony in European sense. L 3, musical instruments, no stringed instruments is a major feature of Indian musical instruments. Traditional musical instruments are wind instruments such as flute and Okari, or percussion instruments such as drums and vibrators. As for violin, guitar, harp and other stringed instruments, they were all brought by Europeans after16th century, or made in the New World under the influence of Europe. Among wind instruments, clarinet is the most popular. It is baked with bamboo, reed or clay, and there are flutes and nose flutes.