What can you tell me about sub-Saharan

African music?

What is its importance?

Who participates?What is it com

bined with?

What occasions is it used for?

Is it different to Western music?

Instrumental music

ChoralDrumming

Instruments

What is its importance?

Communication

FeelingsEmotions

Social gatherings

Who participates?

Everybody

Unites people Regardless of ability

Part of everyday life

What is it combined with?

MovementCostumes

Stories Speech

Mime

Masks Body painting

What occasions is it used for?

Weddings

Funerals Birthdays

Harvest

Do you think music has the same role and importance throughout the world?

Do you think it is appreciated in the same way?

Drumming • Certain rhythms mean certain things• Communication• Oral tradition – no traditional notation• Varies from region to region• Will increase in tension• Signal • Solo• Master drummer

Choral

• Music = link to spirit world• Call and response• Short, simple melodies• Improvisation• Harmony varies from region to region• Overlapping textures• Tone languages – Pitch determines the

meaning of words

Instrumental

• Membranaphones • Idiohones• Aerophones• Chordophones• Body percussion• Vocables • Interlocks and overlaps

Common features to include

• Repetition• Improvisation• Polyrhythm• Call & Response• Cyclic structure• Intertwining melodies

Instruments

Djembe

Talking drum

Dundun

Balaphone