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Music in the Igbo Culture

Music in the Igbo Culture. By Suzi Stoodent and Paul Pupill. Guiding questions. What musical instruments do the Igbo play? What do these instruments look like and sound like? When do the Igbo people play their music ? How has Igbo music changed over the centuries?. Ogene.

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Music in the Igbo Culture

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  1. Music in the Igbo Culture By SuziStoodent and Paul Pupill

  2. Guiding questions • What musical instruments do the Igbo play? • What do these instruments look like and sound like? • When do the Igbo people play their music? • How has Igbo music changed over the centuries?

  3. Ogene • The iron bell is hollow with a flat, conical shape and is struck with a wooden or fibrous stick. • The Igbo play a large single bell called an Alo, which is used in dance-music ensembles. • The bell is also used during festivals and funeral processions.

  4. Ogene  “[Unoka] could hear in his mind’s ear the blood-stirring and intricate rhythms of the ekwe and the udu and the ogene …” page 6 “Okonkwo had just blown out the palm-oil lamp and stretched himself on his bamboo bed when he heard the ogene of the town crier piercing the still night air. Gome, gome, gome, boomed the hallow metal.” page 9

  5. Works Cited Nzewi, O'dyke. “The Technology and Music of the Nigerian Igbo OgeneAnuka Bell Orchestra.” Leonardo Music Journal 10 (2000): 25-31. 21 April 2010 <http://muse. jhu.edu/journals/leonardo_music_journal/v010/10.1nzewi.html>.

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