To sum up, Latin American music is mainly composed of the combination of the above three factors. What is most important, however, is that the intermingling of these factors has created the unique personality known as "Latin America", a "mestizo music" that is by no means a haphazard juxtaposition of many cultures, but has acquired an individual character. New originality.

As already mentioned, most of the inhabitants of Latin America are of mixed race, so the music also expresses the emotions of life that naturally arise from that society. The so-called European style and African black style here have been dyed with the colors of the New World and gained new life. Rather than saying that the original Indian music culture was passed down according to ancient styles, it is better to say that it absorbed various influences on the one hand, and added many subtle changes to express the emotions of people living in reality on the other hand. . The mixture of these three factors, if viewed from the perspective of melody and rhythm, can be explained by quoting a passage from Ni-Slonimsky's "Music of Latin America": In terms of melody, "the Indians provide the basic The influence of European colonists is reflected in the expansion of scales and the addition of chords. In terms of beat and rhythm, the Indians insist on short sentences and long rests, and use monotonous drumming. Accompaniment. The rhythm of the colonizer is mainly Spanish, typically a double beat of 3/4 and 6/8, resulting in a characteristic interlaced rhythm in the center of the bar. The black influence is added in an almost constant 2/4 beat. Syncopation." Regarding the mixing process of these three factors, the letter quoted Dagu's research results and divided the development of Latin American folk music into three stages: 1. Pure Indian tunes and pentatonic scales; 2. Indian scales. The so-called "mixed race" results in an Indo-European mixed-race musical scale similar to European major and minor keys; 3. "Mixed-race and then mixed-race" means using African black ornaments and changes in ornamentation to further complicate the scale.

It must be pointed out that in Latin America, no matter which country or region it is, people proudly boast: "This is our own music." The inherent music is carefully preserved and Cherish it very much.