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Timbre
-The tone quality (not good or bad) of sound
-The reason a Violin and Trumpet sound different
*lowest pitch---> fundamental

Aerophone
-Primary sound caused by a column of air vibrating. – Trumpet, Flute, Organ etc.

Membranophone
-sound produced by a vibrating membrane

Idiophone
-Sound caused by the body of the instrument vibrating (cowbell, wood blocks)

Chordophone
-Sound produced by a vibrating string.
*Lute- Has a body and a neck
*Zither- Only has a body

Listening
-Listen beyond the surface
-What different sounds are there
- How is it organized

Music Stuff
-Where is it from?
-Genre
-Composed or improvised
-Metric or non metric
-Instrumentation
-Purpose? (worship, entertainment, life event)

Music of Africa

Call and Response
- Single “voice: answered by others, back and forth.

Interlocking Parts (linear)
- Many parts designed to fit together and sound like one part, Africa, Indonesia.

8/30

Participational Music
-Group activities, ceremony, war, multimedia approach etc.
-EX. Postal Workers
- Interlocking parts
- Group
-Work Music

(listening to a work song, preformed by postal workers.) (work music, keep up with there work, more fun, more interesting.)

*** All instrumentation was work oriented. Percussion was the stamps being placed. Whistling.

Agbekor Demo CD1-15 pgs. 101-107***** TEST

Music and Dance of EWE

Specific Instruments
Gankogui (bell)
Axatse (shaker)
Kaganu
Kidi
Kloboto
Totodzi
ALL

****** Listening example cd 1 track 15 ******

*Starts with bell. Then shaker comes in, Next is the bell along with the Konga (kaganu), Kidi.

Agbekor (cd1-16) pgs. 108-112
Music and Dance of the EWE

Ewe people now in Ghana and Togo. Originally war music- now cultural heritage specialist music.
Ensemble: Membranophones, Idiophones, Voices.
“Listen to the bell”

Bell commands everything.

Mande- Gambia/Sengal (West Africa)
-Jalie- Special preformer, tells
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