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Music Of Africa Flashcards

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Fun facts about africa

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1) AFRICA IS THE SECOND LARGEST CONTINENT ON EARTH.
2) BETWEEN 1500-2000 LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN IN AFRICA
3) AFRICA IS THE SOURCE OF THE WORLD’S LONGEST RIVER (river Nile)
4) AFRICA IS HOME TO THE WORLD’S OLDEST UNIVERSITY
5) THE RICHEST MAN EVER IS AFRICAN

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Historical and Cultural Background of African Music

  • Singing, dancing, hand clapping, and the beating of drums are…
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essential to many ceremonies such as birth, death, initiation, marriage and funerals.

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Historical and Cultural Background of African Music

  • Important to _____ expression and ____ events.
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religious and political events.

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Historical and Cultural Background of African Music

  • It has great influences on global music. (Contemporary…)
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( contemporary American, Latin American, and European styles)

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Musical Elements and Characteristics of African Music

  • Rhythm
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Polyrhythms; different meters or metrical starting points going at once.

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Musical Elements and Characteristics of African Music

  • Melody
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Use small melodic intervals,
has recurring patterns

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Musical Elements and Characteristics of African Music

  • Harmony
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A capella

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Musical Elements and Characteristics of African Music

  • Form
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Follows call and response form

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Musical Elements and Characteristics of African Music

  • Texture
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Homophonic

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Musical elements of African Music

  • enumerate
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• rhythm
• melody
• harmony
• form
• texture

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Characteristics Of African Music

  • what does polyrhythms mean?
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Different meters or metrical starting points going at once.

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Traditional Music of Africa

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• Apala
• Axe
• Jit
• Jive
• Juju
• Kwassa Kwassa
• Marabi
• Reggae
• Salsa-Afro-Cuban Music
• Samba
• Soca
• Were
• Zouk

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Traditional Music of Africa

____ is a Musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba

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Apala

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Traditional Music of Africa

○ tribal style to wake up the worshipers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan

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Apala

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Traditional Music of Africa

Axe is a popular musical genre from ______, ______ and ______

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Salvador, Bahia and Brazil

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Traditional Music of Africa

○ It fuses the Afro-Carribean styles of the marcha, reggae and calypso

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Axe

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Traditional Music of Africa

○ Hard and fast Zimbabwean dance music played on drums with guitar accompaniment.

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Jit

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Traditional Music of Africa

____ was Influenced by mbira-based guitar styles.

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Jit

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Traditional Music of Africa

Definition; Jive

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Lively and uninhibited variation of jitterbug a form of swing dance.

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Traditional Music of Africa

Popular style from Nigeria that relies on the traditional Yoruba rhythms where the instruments in ___ are more Western in origin.

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Juju

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Traditional Music of Africa

Kwassa kwassa also known as??

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Shake your booty dance

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Traditional Music of Africa

_______ style begun in Zaire in the late 80’s.

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Kwassa kwassa [shake ur booty]

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Traditional Music of Africa

Characterized by simple chords in varying vamping patterns and repetitive harmony over an extended period of time to allow the dances…

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Marabi; more time on the dance floor

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Traditional Music of Africa

Definition; Reggae

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Jamaican sound dominated by bass and guitar chops

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Traditional Music of Africa

Salsa- Afro-Cuban music is _____, ______, and _____ dance music.

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Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Colombian dance music

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Traditional Music of Africa

Salsa comprises various musical genres including the…

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• Cuban son montuno
• guaracha
• chachacha
• mambo
• bolero.

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Traditional Music of Africa

○ Typifies most Brazilian music.

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Traditional Music of Africa

It is a ____ and _____ dance and music with three steps to every bar, making the Samba feel like a timed dance.

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Samba; lively and rhythmical dance and music

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Traditional Music of Africa

_____ is a Modern _______ and ______ pop music

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Trinidadian and Tobago

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Traditional Music of Africa

○ combining “soul” and “calypso” music.

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Traditional Music of Africa

○ Muslim music performed often as a wake-up call for early breakfast and prayers during Ramadan celebration.

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Traditional Music of Africa

Fast, _____-like rhythmic music from the Creole slang word for “party”

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Zouk; carnival-like

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Traditional Music of Africa

○ Originating in the Carribean Islands of Guadalupe and Martinique.

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Traditional Music of Africa

Chill kind of music

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Vocal Forms of African Music

○ surfaced in the African state of Pernambuco, combining the strong rhythms of African percussion instruments with Portugese melodies.

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Vocal Forms of African Music

○ It uses mostly percussion instruments such as the…

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alfaia, tarol, and caixa-de-Guerra, gongue, agbe, and miniero.

  • Maracatu
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Vocal Forms of African Music

The maracatu groups were called _______ who paraded with a drumming ensemble numbering up to ____, accompanied by a singer, chorus, and a coterie of dancers.

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“nacoes” (nations); 100

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Vocal Forms of African Music

(Maracatu groups/nacoes)

Acoompanied by a…

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Singer, chorus and a coterie of dancers

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Vocal Forms of African Music

[Musical instruments used in Maracatu]

  • enumerate
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• Alfaia Drum
• Agbe Sakere
• Tarol
• Caixa

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Vocal Forms of African Music

○ Musical form of the late 19th century that has had deep roots in African-American communities ( “Deep South” of the United States).

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Vocal Forms of African Music

Blues are used to sing by _______ as they worked in the cotton and vegetable fields.

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Vocal Forms of African Music

Soul combines elements of…

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• African-American gospel music
• rhythm and blues
• and often jazz

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Vocal Forms of African Music

○ The catchy rhythms are accompanied by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves which are among its important features.

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Vocal Forms of African Music

The call and response
method is a ____________________________________, where the second phrase acts as a direct commentary on or response to the first.

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A succession of two distinct musical phrases usually rendered by different musicians

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

  • enumerate
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• Idiophones
• Membranophones
• Lamellophones
• Chordophones
• Aerophones

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Idiophone is produced by…

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• tapping
• shaking

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Membranophones is produced by…

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vibrating a stretched membrane.
- It has a cover

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Lamellophones is produced by…

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• flucking
• vibrations

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Chordophones is produced by…

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It has a vibrating string

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Aerophones is produced by…

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Bells

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Idiophones

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Clappers

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Idiophones

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Rattles

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Idiophones

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Drums

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Membranophones

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Tambourines

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Membranophones

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Gongs

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Membranophones

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

The Jew’s harp

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Lamellophones

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Bows

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Chordophones

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Lyre

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Chordophones

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Zither

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Chordophones

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Flutes

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Aerophones

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Trumpet

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Aerophones

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CLASSIFICATIONS of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Clarinets

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Aerophones

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