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CORDS AND SCALES
-Chords are constructed from scales
-Pentatonic and hexatonic
-heptatonic
-Scales descend from top to bottom
-harmony = parallel fourths, parallel fifths, parallel octaves or parallel thirds
Zimbabwe
Tanzania
Ghana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Ghana
http://www.ghanaiandiaspora.com/ghana/music/
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AFRICA IN GENERAL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_sub-Saharan_African_harmony
AFRICA MUSIC IN GENERAL
PRINCIPALS
-homophonic parallelism
-homophonic polyphony
-counter melody
-Polyphony
-ostinato-variation
-heterophony
combinations
- ostinato
-parallel intervals
-polyphonic techniques
- polyphonic
Music of Ghana
Instruments
Wind Instruments
-Flutes
-horns
- voice
melodic composition on stringed instruments
- kologo lute
- gonjey fiddle
These are all accompanied by with polyrhythms clapped or played on the talk drum, gourd drums or brekete bass drums.
Music Structure
-Each instrument follows its own rhythmic pattern. this pattern is played continuously.
- composed of minor pentatonic or chromatic scales and melisma plays an important role in music
- melody = originated music
Types of MUSIC
There are four main types of music heard in Ghana today: Contemporary music, Traditional music, Gospel music and Imported music.
Gospel music
Contemporary music
Imported styles
Traditional music
Use of Drums
-Composed of "highlife" and "hiplife" music styles
-Takes a traditional percussive beat with various other culture
-aMERICAN HIP-HOP AND R&B
- SOME FRENCH MUSIC
-Based around Jesus Christ
-Melodies and Ghanian rhythms
-Heavy Percussion Beats
- RITUALIZED EVENTS
- DRUMS AND GONG-GONG ARE MORE commonly USED IN SOUTH
-STRING INSTRUMENTS AND CALABASH ARE MORE commonly USED IN SOUTH
-Drum are more powerful then words
- Talking drum performances - Honor someone of high significance.
TALKING DRUM PERFORMANCE
dance time!!!!!!!!!
music in Tanzania
Mbira
-Lemellophone
-Ilimba
Drums
-Tuned goblet drums
-Tuned Cylindrical drums
-Talking Drum
traditional music
Instrumentation
Hukwe Zawose
-prominent exponent
of Tanzanian
traditional music
-Polyphonic
-Wider variety of
instrumentation
Zaramo
-Mitamba Yalagala Kumchuzi
-Homophonic
-Extremely repetitive
-Instruments:
-Tuned goblet drums
-Tuned cylindrical drums
-And tin rattles.
Bongo Flava
-a blend of all sorts of melodies, beats, rhythms and sounds.
-Modern style
-FAVORS Swahili
MUSIC OF ZIMBABWE
Types of Music
INSTRUMENTS
Other Types of Music
-Afro-Jazz
-Chimurenga
-Tuku
-Jit
-Mbira
-Percussive Instruments
-shakers (hosho)
-leg rattles (magaga, magavhu and amahlayi)
-wooden clappers (makwa)
Secular
-Social Activities
-Homophonic
-Less Instrumentation
Dances
-Human Life Cycle
Sacred
-Linked to Cosmology
-Religion and Spiritual life
-Homophonic
-call and response
-accompanied by dances
Tradition
-has traditional acapella
-Some Traditional music Genres are accompanied by instruments epically the drums.
-Most music is accompanied by a dance
-lyrics mostly contain encouragement of upholding good social values in the family and society as whole.