Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Traditional Music
- West Africa
- Musical Characteristics
- Pentatonic
- strongly rhythmic
- Many ostinati
- Very repetitive
- Polyrhythmic
- Call-and-response
singing
- Instruments
- Djembes
- Hand
drums
- Bells
- Agogo
- Balafon
- a xylophone
with gourd
resonators
- pentatonic
- wooden bars
- Kora
- a harp made from a calabash
- calabash- a
large hollow
gourd)
- up to 25 strings
- Mbira
- thumb piano
- often placed
inside a gourd
- gourd acts
as
resonator
- Shekeres
- Shakers
- Uyot
- Rattle
- Carribean
- Musical Characteristics
- Usually major
- Strongly rhythmic
- syncopation
- Much Repetition
- Latin percussion
- Call-and-response
singing
- Mostly chords
1, 4 & 5
- Instruments
- Trumpets
- Guitars
- Latin Percussion
- Cabasa
- Guiro
- Bongos
- Congos
- Agogo
- Indian
- Instruments
- Tambura
- Plays
the
drone
- Sitar
- Plays the melody
- Rag
- Tabla
- Play the rhythm
- Tal
- Musical
Characteristics
- Mostly improvised
- (Often in) Free
rhythm
- Uses Indian
modes
- Modes=scales
- Tonalitly is
modal