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African Music instruments

African Music instruments. Purpose. Music performed had a function… Celebrate birth, marriage and hunting Work songs Political activities To ward off evil spirits To invite good spirits To invite the dead and ancestors. Talking Drum = tama. Slit drums – divided to produce two pitches.

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African Music instruments

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  1. African Music instruments

  2. Purpose • Music performed had a function… Celebrate birth, marriage and hunting Work songs Political activities To ward off evil spirits To invite good spirits To invite the dead and ancestors

  3. Talking Drum = tama

  4. Slit drums – divided to produce two pitches

  5. Agogo bell – gankoqui – two tone - used for a congregation of the arrival of a dignitary

  6. Challenge : Try working out the rhythms of the Agogo in groups of four or five

  7. Kora – a stringed instrument which has two sets of strings. An experienced player is called a Jali or Griot Listen to it being played http://youtu.be/8luhdxS2KuM

  8. Mbira or thumb piano – can be played in a resonator called a deze Hear one - http://youtu.be/YbPVFMMIvqM

  9. Challenge: play both parts of this Mbira music in pairs

  10. bougarabou djembe

  11. Two gourds with beans inside – one is occasionally clacked with the other Rain stick – believed it could bring rain storms Challenge: Perform a quiet section of an african piece by playing some of the selected instruments listed above

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