Q2 Music of Africa PDF
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This document details various types of African music. It explores traditional music, genres like reggae and fusion, and classifies African instruments into idiophones, chordophones, aerophones, and membranophones. It includes examples of instruments such as the mbira, sese, rattles, shekere, balafon, talking drum, and more. The document also presents questions for classifying these instruments.
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N & P O P U L A R MU S IC CA Q U A R T E R 2 – A FR O – LA T IN AME R I TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF AFRICA SPIRITUAL FORM A SPIRITUAL IS A TYPE OF RELIGIOUS FOLKSONG THAT IS MOST CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRICAN...
N & P O P U L A R MU S IC CA Q U A R T E R 2 – A FR O – LA T IN AME R I TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF AFRICA SPIRITUAL FORM A SPIRITUAL IS A TYPE OF RELIGIOUS FOLKSONG THAT IS MOST CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH. REGGAE SLOWER TEMPO, THE GUITAR/PIANO OFFBEATS, THE EMPHASIS ON THE THIRD BEAT, AND THE USE OF SYNCOPATED, MELODIC BASS LINES THAT DIFFERENTIATE REGGAE FROM OTHER MUSIC FUSION FUSION IS A VERY BROAD TERM USED FOR TYPES OF MUSIC WHICH FUSE TWO OR MORE STYLES TOGETHER IN A STRONG COALITION TO CREATE A FUSION OF THE GENRES AFRICAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ARE CLASSIFIED INTO FOUR GROUPS NAMELY; IDIOPHONES, CHORDOPHONES, AEROPHONES AND MEMBRANOPHONES. Mbira – hand or thumb piano. SESE – African fiddle Rattles – made in seashells, animal hoops, horn, wood, metal bells,cocoons,an d palm shells. Shekere – type of gourd or shell megaphone Balafon – West African Xylophone Talking Drum CLASSIFY THE AFRICAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; A. IDIOPHONES B. CHORDOPHONES C. AEROPHONES D. MEMBRANOPHONES LUTE DJEMBE BALAFON IVORY HORN GOBLET MARACAS TALK ING DRUM GUIR O NYATIT I BENDI R
