zimbabwe-shinna music
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- where is zimbabwe located
- sounthern africa
- zimbabwe colinzation
- the english settlers imposed thier cuture on the local africans
- what is the positive symbol of traditional culture identity and the ways of the aancestors?
- mbira
- what is the largest ethnic group in zimbabwe
- shonna
- what is the mbira
- thumb piano, a set of lonbg jeys made from metal, a soundboard made from wood, a resonator to amplify the sound, jingles that buzz when keys are plucked.
- what is the mbira resonator
- brings out the instument's full tone, shells, bottle caps attached to the resonator and/or the soundboard to create a buzzing when played
- what is a resonator
- large gourd (deze)
- what is the role of mbira in the shonna culture
- communicating with the spirits, chases away harmful spirits, cures illnesses, included in celebrations.
- what are the 4 shonna spirits
- cheifs, whiches, family members, non-relatives or animals
- mbira and possession trance
- humans and spirits communicate by means of possession trances, brought on by mbira music
- what is mapira (bira)
- an all night ceremony where possessions occur
- what type of mbira is used during a mapira
- mbira dzavadzimu, tuned seven pitches scale and 3 octaves
- components of a mbira dzavadzimu
- 2 interlocking parts
- what is a kushaura
- part of the interlocking part of mbira dzavadzimu, the main part
- what is a kutsinhira
- part of the interlocking mbira dzavadzimu, the second interwoven part. both polyphonic....multi layered sound
- what are the three music styles for mbira dzavadzimu?
- vocable, poetry and yodeling
- what are gourd rattles
- hosho- internal beads unlike axatse
- what is hemiola
- when many pieces exploit the relationship between the sounding of 3 against 2
- Nhemamusasa
- zimbabwe song played for chaminuka
- nhemamusasa characteristics
- cyles of melody, polyphony, polyrythm, interlocking (kushaura and kutsinhira, buzzed timbre, hemiola
- what is chimurenga music
- refers to the struggle
- what instrument is associated with dagara
- xylophone
- what are the defining characteristics of the xylophone
- pitched, wooden bars
- where do the dagars poeople live in ghana
- the upper west
- what is the gyil
- 14 keyed ylophone
- what are gourd resonators
- holes cut in the gourds, covered with a thin, white membrane which produces a buzzing sound when the keys are struck, use spider castings
- how is the gyil tuned
- 5 note scale
- what is an ostinato
- repeated rhythmic pattern
- what is a kuor
- accompanies gyil, drum with lizard skin head
- where is dagara music played at
- funerals, religios ceremonies, festivals, music recreational style called bewaa.
- what do the bewaa dancers dress in
- they wear metal jungles which causes rythm as well as buzzed timbre. metal castanets keep time.
- components of the bewaa music
- vocal song, gyil, ostinato, kuor, metal castanets, metal jungles
- where are the dagbamba people from
- northern region
- what is the dagbamba clan of drummers called
- lunsi
- what two types of drums do the dagbamba use
- luna and gungon, each head has a snare strung across it.
- what are the musical characteristics of the song Nag Biegu
- call and response, buzzed timbre, dense texture, polyrythm, synocpation
- what are the bamaya costumes like
- designed to make them men look like women, on anles worn heavy jingles
- what happened at the berlin conference
- they divided territorial rights in s. and central africa.
- what are the pan african characteristics
- ostinatos, buzzed timbre, syncopation, call and response, interlocking, cyclical, polymeter, hemiola,
- where are the Ewe people from
- south eastern ghana
- what are drums in the ewe ensemble
- sogo, kidi, kagan, axatse
- what is encluturation
- learnign about the music by watching, practicing.
- what three elemtns make up african american music
- jazz, blues, and spiritual
- what is lining-out
- a type of call and response
- what are the functions of work song
- pass the time, esapism, make take more interesting, keep rythm/pace, coordination
- what is the blues
- a feeling, poetic, and musical
- blues as a poetic art
- folk poetry, subjects are love, life, and hard times
- what is the blues form?
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abcb+ 2 line refrain= quatrain - blues as a musical form
- typifies blues, jazz, spiritual, gospel, triplet rythm, rythmically complex
- delta blues
- acuostic instruments, harmonica, spoken vocals
- memphis blues
- smooth arranged, brass, soulful vocals, lighter
- how is music measured
- its ability to integrate society, its ability to integrate cermonial, it supernatural power
- plains music
- high-pitched monophonic, heavy pulsation, form AA' BCD BCD
- eastern woodlans
- mod relaxed, yodelling, decending countours(except curing songs) call and response(only one)
- s. west and california
- open relaxed, lower part of vocal range, free meter, repition and variation NAVAJO- YEIBICHAI