Music of Africa

MUSIC OF AFRICA Is largely functional in nature, used primarily in ceremonial
rites, such as birth, death, marriage, succession, worship and

spiritual invocations..
Some types of African Music
Afrobeat is a term used to describe the fusion
of West African with black American music.
Apala (Akpala) Apala is a musical genre from Nigeria in the
Yoruba tribal style to wake up the worshippers
after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of
Ramadan.
Sekere Rattle
Agidigbo Thumb Piano
Agogo Two or three talking drums.
Axe Axe is a popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil.
It fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of the marcha, reggae, and
calypso.
Jit Is a hard and fast percussive Zimbabwean dance music
Jive Is a popular form of South American Music featuring a lively and
uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing dance.
Juju Juju is a popular music style from Nigeria that relies on the
traditional Yoruba rhythms, where the instruments in Juju are
more Western in origin.
Kwassa Kwassa Kwassa Kwassa is a dance style begun in Zaire
in the late 1980’s, popularized by Kanda
Bongo Man.
Marabi Marabi is a South African three-chord
township music of the 1930s-1960s
which evolved into African Jazz.
LATIN AMERICA MUSIC INFLUENCED BY AMERICAN MUSIC
Reggae Reggae is a Jamaican sound dominated by bass guitar
and drums.
Salsa Salsa music is Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Colombian
dance music. It comprises various musical genres
including the Cuban son montuno, guaracha,
chachacha, mambo and bolero.
Samba the basic underlying rhythm that typifies most Brazilian music.
It is a lively and rhythmical dance and music with three steps to
every bar,
Soca Soca is a modern Trinidadian and Tobago pop music
combining “soul” and “calypso” music.
Were This is Muslim music performed often as a wake-up
call for early breakfast and prayers during Ramadan
celebrations.
Zouk Zouk is fast, carnival-like hythmic music, from the Creole
slang word for ‘party,’ originating in the Carribean Islands
of Guadaloupe and Martinique and popularized in the
1980’s.
Maracatu
-first surfaced in the African state of Pernambuco, combining the strong rhythms of African percussion instruments with Portuguese
melodies
-alfai drum, tarol, caixa, gongue,agabe, ganza
Blues
-musical form of the late 19th century
-the notes create and expressive and soulful sound
-Ray Charles, James Brown, Cab Callow ay, Aretha Franklin, John Lee Hooker, B. B.King, Bo Disley, Erykah Badu, Eric Clapton, Steve
Winwood, Charlie Musselwhite
Soul
-was a popular music genre of the q950s to 1960s.combined elements of African-American gospel, RnB, and jazz.
-Clyde Mcphatter, Hank Ballad, Etta James. Ray Charles, Little Richard James Brown"Godfather Of Soul"
Spiritual
-Negro Spiritual, sung by African slaves in America who became enslaved by its white communities,.
Call and response
-method of succession of two distinct musical phrases usually rendered by different muscicians
A. Idiophones
-Struck with a mullet

Balafon
-West African xylophone
Rattles
-vessels made of seashells, tin, basketry etc.

Agogo
-a single or multiple bell that had its origins in traditional yoruba music. Oldest samba instrument
Ating ting kon
-slit gongs used as communication between villages

Slit drum
-hollow percussion instrument
Djembe
-shaped like a large goblet
Shekere
-a type of gourd and shell megaphone from West sfrica

Rasp
-hand percussion instrument
B. Membranopjones
- have vibrating animal membranes
Body percussions
Talking drum
-used to send messages to announce births, death marriages sporting events dances etc.
C. Lamellaphone
Mbira
-thumb piano. From zimbabwe
D.Chordophone
Musical bow
-ancestor of all string instrument
Mouth bow
- consists of a single string attached to each end of a curved stick
Resonator bow
- is form ot the mouth bow with calabash resonator
Earth bow
- ground bow or pit harp, consists of a flexible pole

Lute
-originating from Arabic states. Shaped like the modern guitar
Kora
-Africa's most sophisticated harp, having similar features to a lute
Zither
-varying sizes and shapes

Zeze
-a fiddle from sub saharan Africa played with a bow
Aerophone
Uses air
Flutes
-usually fashioned from a single tube closed at one end and vlown
Horns
Reed pipes
Whistles
Trumpets
Latin America
Indegenous
-guiro, maracas, turtle shells, zampona and quena
Afrolatin
-rich and varied rhythmic patterns produced by drums and various percussion instruments.
-complex layering of rhythmic patters

-vocal music musis was often deep-chested
Euro latin
-melodies of the renaissance period were used by Southern Chile and Colombian Pacific coasts
Popular Latin music
Samba
-dance form of African origin which evolved into African-Brazilian in rio dejeniro
Son
-a fusion of canciones and African rumba

Salsa
-social dance with marked influence from Cuba and Puerto rico
Musical Instruments I'd Latin America

Aztec and Mayan Instrument
Tlapitzalli
-a flute variety from the aztec culture
Teponaztli
-Mexican slit drum
Concha
-wind instrument made from shells
Rasp
-sound is produced by scraping a stick
Huehueti
-upright tubular drum used by the Aztecs
Whistles
-made from natural elements
Incan musical Instruments
Ocarinas
-ancient vessel flute made of clay
Zamponas
-panpipes ancient instruments from the andes mountains
Andean Musical Instruments
Siku
Wooden tarka
-vertical duct flute with a mouthliece

Quena
-a vertical can flute
Charango
-Ten stringed Andean guitar
VOCAL AND DANCE FORMS.
Cumbia
-popular courtship dance with European and African instrumentation characteristics
Tango
-meaning African dance, in 1980s it developed as the foremost urban song and dance form in the working class areas of Buenos Aries
Cha cha
-A ballroom
Rumba
-popular recreational dance of Afro-Cuban origin, performed in a complex duple meter
Bossa nova
-A slower gentler version of Cuban Samba
-Antonio Carlos Jobim. Sitti Navarro
Reggae
-Urban popular music and dance style originated in Jamaica

-Bob marley
Foxtrot
-a 20th century dance originates in USA

Paso Doble
-theatrical Spanish dance used by the Spaniards in bull fight
Jazz Music
Ragtime
-a popular American musical style mainly for piano.
-said to be a modification of the marching mode

-made popular by John Philip sousa
-Jelly Roll Morton(Frog-I-More Rag) Scott Joplin (Maple Leaf Rag=)
Bigband
-large ensemble form originating in the United states
Bebop
-emerged during World War II

-characterised by fast tempi, instrumental virtuosity Nd imrpovisation
-Dizzy Gilrpsie. Charlie Parker, max roach, Charlie Christian, dexter Gordon and sonny rollins
JazzRock
-inserted jazz elements into rock music
-Grateful Dead, Cream, Blood sweat and tears,santana, traffic, Chicago, steely Dan, lighthouse,frank zappa, soft machine
Popular Music
Folk Music
-refers to the melodies and songs to the common people that are handed from one generation to the next.
-in the 1960s and 1970s it was combined with elements of rock
-Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan,Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell,John Denver, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkel
Country and Western Music

-a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the SOUTHERN United states
-in 1940s Hillbilly music was felt degrading
-Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Roy Rogers, Jimmy Rodgers, Pasty Cline, Jim reeves, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Partons
-Tim Mcgraw and faith Hill, Keith Urban, Shania Twain, Carrie Underwood, Trisha Yearwod, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift
Ballads
Blues ballads
-fusion of Anglo-American styles of the 19th century
Pop standard and Jazz Ballads
-blues style built from a single verse of 16 bars
Pop and Rock Ballads

-Emotional Love song
-The Ballad of John and Yoko, the Ballad of Billy
Standards
-USED to denote the most popular and enduring songs from a particular styl
Frank Sinatra
-OL blue eyes, The Voice, Chairman of the Board

-My way and Strangers in the night
Nat King Cole
-Accomplished pianist
-Known for his soothing baritone voice
-Unforgettable, Mona Lisa, Too Young
Matt Monroe
-An English singer who became on of the most popular entertainers in the international music
-Portrait of my love, softly as I leave you
Rock and roll
-hugely popular song form in the USA in the late 1940s to the 1960s
-Combines blues, jump blues, jazz and gospel with Western swing
?-employed 2 electric guitars, bass guitar, drums

-rock greats Chuck Berry(Johnny B Goode and Roll Over) and Little Richard
Elvis presley
-Greatest exponent of the rock and roll style

-Heartbreak hotel and Blue Suede Shoes
The Beatles
-Further Boosted rock and roll
-Love me do, I saw her standing there, get back, a hards day night, rock and roll music, help!
Di ko na nilagay ang members ng beatles
Disco
-Rock music that was more danceable
-Originated from the French word discotheque which means library for phonograph records
-bee gees, Donna Summer, Earth wind and fire, Kc and the sunshine band, the Village People and Gloria Gaynor
PopMusic
-Neil Sedaka, Diana Ross and the supreme, Olivia Newton John, Stevie wonder, Elton John, The Carpenters and BarryManilow
-Celine Dion, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carry, JUSTIN timberlake, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Lady gaga, Vruno Mars

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MUSIC OF AFRICA Is largely functional in nature, used primarily in ceremonial

rites, such as birth, death, marriage, succession, worship and

Call and response

-Struck with a mullet

-vessels made of seashells, tin, basketry etc.

-slit gongs used as communication between villages

-hollow percussion instrument

-a type of gourd and shell megaphone from West sfrica

-thumb piano. From zimbabwe

- ground bow or pit harp, consists of a flexible pole

-originating from Arabic states. Shaped like the modern guitar

-varying sizes and shapes

-guiro, maracas, turtle shells, zampona and quena

-complex layering of rhythmic patters

-a fusion of canciones and African rumba

Musical Instruments I'd Latin America

Incan musical Instruments

-vertical duct flute with a mouthliece

-a vertical can flute

VOCAL AND DANCE FORMS.

-Urban popular music and dance style originated in Jamaica

-a 20th century dance originates in USA

-theatrical Spanish dance used by the Spaniards in bull fight

-said to be a modification of the marching mode

-Jelly Roll Morton(Frog-I-More Rag) Scott Joplin (Maple Leaf Rag=)

-emerged during World War II

Country and Western Music

-in 1940s Hillbilly music was felt degrading

Pop and Rock Ballads

-The Ballad of John and Yoko, the Ballad of Billy

-OL blue eyes, The Voice, Chairman of the Board

?-employed 2 electric guitars, bass guitar, drums

-Greatest exponent of the rock and roll style

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