It is known that five sounds scales (pentatonic) were used in ancient India and ancient Egypt. In more recent times, the Quichua (inhabitants of the Andean region of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia) used a similar music system.
In the chronicles of the conquerors - where you can find data about the place that music had in the celebrations and ceremonies of the Native Americans, there's no records of musical pieces or fragments.
In the absence of this primary source, we use other sources such as musical instruments found in the tombs and folklore today. The validity of using the latter, in the case of a town that was subjected to different influences, is given by the geography of the region. This group made the highest elevations were kept isolated from the Europeanized cities of the Pacific coast.
