Download or read book Twenty Four Studies in African Rhythms Volume 1 written by Fred Onovwerosuoke and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All 12 Studies in the first volume could be performed together as an item in a concert (about 25 minutes, total). Study I, Okoye, fuses a commonality I found in some Edo (Nigeria) and Baganda (Uganda) polyrhythms. Study II, Edo, is an old Bini (Nigeria) folk melody sandwiched by two layers of balafon (wooden xylophone) ostinato pattern for an ancient Wollof (Senegal) royal dance. Study III, Udje, is based on an Urhobo (Nigeria) dance with the same name; actually, the dance sketches for a later composition, Ayevwiomo (Birth) for flute & piano. Study IV, Tunis, is based on an old tune I fell in love with among the Tuaregs in Tunisia and Burkina Faso, but which I later notated when I heard it again in northern Ghana by a Dagomba gonje (1-string fiddle) player. Study V, Jali, was fashioned from my years hanging out with kora playing griot friends from West Africa and kraar-playing friends from the Abyssinian subregion of northeastern Africa. It's from my first sketch for a later composition, the 3rd movement of Five Sketches for Flute, Violin and Piano. Study VI, Iroro, draws from the 'trance-like' dances of the "River-goddess" cults I observed across the West African coast; it's from the first sketches for a later composition, with the same title, for flute and piano. Study VII, Herero Wedding Dance, is a cross between my travels in Namibia and Ethiopia. Among the Herero and Tigre peoples the day after the first nuptial night is particularly significant. The 'events' of that 'first night' often call for communal dance and more celebration! Studies VIII, IX and XI echo Study III, Ayevwiomo.Their mastery will sensitize the pianist to appreciating a wide variety of African dance music. Study 10, Barka, brings us back to Arabia and Foula regions of Africa. It's extracted from my Five Sketches for Flute, Violin and Piano. Study 12, Agbadza, draws from the royal and funeral dances of Ghana and Dahomey regions of West Africa.
Download or read book Twenty Four Studies in African Rhythms Volume II written by and published by . This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The African Imagination in Music written by Victor Kofi Agawu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The African Imagination in Music, noted music scholar Kofi Agawy offers a fresh introduction to the vast, immensely rich and diverse set of repertoires that comprise the sound worlds of Sub-Saharan African music. Agawu introduces readers to the basic elements of African music and to the values upon which they are built. He then explores the key dimensions and resources of African music, including the place of music in society, musical instruments, the relationship between language and music, rhythm, melody, form, harmony and finally, appropriations of African music by musicians around the world. Written in an accessible styles, The African Imagination in Music is poised to renew interest in Black African music, and to engender discussion of its creative underpinnings by Africanists, ethnomusicologists, music theorists and musicologists. -- from back cover.
Download or read book African Rhythms written by Randy Weston and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Rhythms is the autobiography of the important jazz pianist, composer and band leader Randy Weston. He tells of his childhood in Brooklyn, his six decades long musical career, his time living in Morocco, and his lifelong quest to learn about the musical and cultural traditions of Africa.
Download or read book Theory of African Music Volume I written by Gerhard Kubik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1 previously published in 1994 by F. Noetzel.
Download or read book Six Rhythmic Studies for Harp written by Fred Onovwerosuoke and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like their counterparts for piano, some of the Six Rhythmic Studies for Harp were repurposed for the pedal harp, mostly written on demand from friends and music students wishing for a better understanding of some of Africa's multitudinous rhythmic patterns. Some of these studies may also be amenable to the lever harp.
Download or read book West African Rhythms for Drumset written by Royal Hartigan and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Freeman Kwazdo Donkor and Abraham Adzenyah. Based on four Ghanaian rhythmic groups (Sikyi, Adowa, Gahu and Akom), this book and CD will provide drumset players with a "new" vocabulary based on some of the oldest and most influential rhythms in the world. A groundbreaking presentation!
Download or read book African Rhythm written by Victor Kofi Agawu and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1995 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . An accompanying compact disk enables the reader to work closely with the sound of African speech and song discussed in the book.
Download or read book Four African Pieces for Harp written by Fred Onovwerosuoke and published by . This book was released on 2019-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These four pieces were arranged over time for harpist colleagues and friends who were participants at one of the composer's choral workshops, or requested arrangements from his "Songs of Africa" (the collection published by Oxford University Press) or the "Twelve African Songs for Solo Voice and Piano," published by African Music Publishers.
Download or read book Indigenous African Popular Music Volume 1 written by Abiodun Salawu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the nature, philosophies and genres of indigenous African popular music, focusing on how indigenous African popular music artistes are seen as prophets and philosophers, and how indigenous African popular music depicts the world. Indigenous African popular music has long been under-appreciated in communication scholarship. However, understanding the nature and philosophies of indigenous African popular music reveals an untapped diversity which only be unraveled by knowledge of the myriad cultural backgrounds from which its genres originate. Indigenous African popular musicians have become repositories of indigenous cultural traditions and cosmologies.With a particular focus on scholarship from Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa, this volume explores the work of these pioneering artists and their protégés who are resiliently sustaining, recreating and popularising indigenous popular music in their respective African communities, and at the same time propagating the communal views about African philosophies and the temporal and spiritual worlds in which they exist.
Download or read book The Art of Mbira written by Paul F. Berliner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner’s The Art of Mbira documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart of this work lies the analysis of the improvisatory processes that propel mbira music’s magnificent creativity. In this book, Berliner provides insight into the communities of study, performance, and worship that surround mbira. He chronicles how master player Cosmas Magaya and his associates have developed their repertory and practices over more than four decades, shaped by musical interaction, social and political dynamics in Zimbabwe, and the global economy of the music industry. At once a detailed exposition of the music’s forms and practices, it is also an indispensable historical and cultural guide to mbira in a changing world. Together with Berliner and Magaya's compendium of mbira compositions, Mbira’s Restless Dance, The Art of Mbira breaks new ground in the depth and specificity of its exploration of an African musical tradition, and in the entwining of the authors’ collaborative voices. It is a testament to the powerful relationship between music and social life—and the rewards of lifelong musical study, performance, and friendship.
Download or read book The Garland Handbook of African Music written by Ruth M. Stone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-02 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Garland Handbook of African Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 1, Africa, (1997). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Africa and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area. Part One provides an in-depth introduction to Africa. Part Two focuses on issues and processes, such as notation and oral tradition, dance in communal life, and intellectual property. Part Three focuses on the different regions, countries, and cultures of Africa with selected regional case studies. The second edition has been expanded to include exciting new scholarship that has been conducted since the first edition was published. Questions for Critical Thinking at the end of each major section guide and focus attention on what musical and cultural issues arise when one studies the music of Africa -- issues that might not occur in the study of other musics of the world. An accompanying audio compact disc offers musical examples of some of the music of Africa.
Download or read book Groove An Aesthetic of Measured Time written by Mark Abel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between music and time? How does musical rhythm express our social experience of time? In Groove: An Aesthetic of Measured Time, Mark Abel explains the rise to prominence in Western music of a new way of organising rhythm: groove. He provides a historical account of its emergence around the turn of the twentieth century, and analyses the musical components which make it work. Tracing the influence of key philosophical arguments about the nature of time on musical aesthetics, Mark Abel draws on materialist interpretations of art and culture to challenge those, like Adorno, who criticise popular music’s metrical regularity. He concludes that groove does not simply reflect the temporality of contemporary society, but, by incorporating abstract time into its very structure, is capable of effecting a critique of it.
Download or read book The Black Diaspora written by Ronald Segal and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-09-30 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history of black life outside of Africa provides a cross-cultural analysis that covers five centuries and encompasses religion and politics, language and literature, and music and art, and reveals that dispersed cultures have an organic, coherent identity."--Amazon.com
Download or read book Theory of African Music Volume II written by Gerhard Kubik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erudite and exhaustive, Gerhard Kubik’s Theory of African Music provides an authoritative account of its subject. Over the course of two volumes, Kubik, one of the most prominent experts in the field, draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study throughout Africa to compare and contrast a wealth of musical traditions from a range of cultures. In this second volume, Kubik explores a variety of topics, including Yoruba chantefables, the musical Kachamba family of Malawˆ i, and the cognitive study of African rhythm. Drawing on his remarkable ability to make cross-cultural comparisons, Kubik illuminates every facet of the African understanding of rhythm, from timing systems to elementary pulsation. His analysis of tusona ideographs in Luchazi culture leads to an exploration of African space/time concepts that synthesizes his theories of art, rhythm, and culture. Featuring a large number of photographs and accompanied by a compact disc of Kubik’s own recordings, Theory of African Music, Volume II, will be an invaluable reference for years to come.
Download or read book The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Volume 1 written by Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music comprises two volumes, and can only be purchased as the two-volume set. To purchase the set please go to: http://www.routledge.com/9780415972932
Download or read book Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities Through African Perspectives written by Helen Lauer and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation was inspired by an international symposium held on the Legon campus in September 2003. Hosted by the CODESRIA African Humanities Institute Programme, the symposium had the theme 'Canonical Works and Continuing Innovation in African Arts & Humanities'.
