Ghana, Africa U1 REVIEW

What does the red represent?

Ghana

totodzi

What is a polyrhythm?

two contrasting rhythms

What is the Ewe music timeline? What instrument is it anchored by?

a repeating pattern of music notes with differing starting points, anchored by the gankogui

What are the three categories of African instruments?

Drums, Rattles/shakers, bells

What is the five-note musical system widely used? What notes does it leave out?

pentatonic scale, Fa & Ti

Axaste

gonkogui

Mbira

kaganu

Amadinda

Ebinyenge

Idiophones

“self-sounder” entire instrument vibrates e.g. xylophones

Membranophones

“skin-sounder” e.g. drum

Aerophones

“air-sounder” e.g. wind instruments

Chordophones

“string-sounder”

Corophone

“body-sounder” e.g. clapping or snapping

Characteristics of african music (4)

• call and response

• functional music

• integrated with dance

• oral tradition

What does it mean for African music to be functional?

its purpose is communicating/event success (e.g. rainmaking, ceremonies, work), not for concert/artistic expression

What is oral tradition?

music is passed down through memory and listening rather than sheet music

agbekor

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