Music of Africa Grade 10 second quarter lesson. Reference: Horizons Music and Arts Appreciation for Young Filipinos. Photo from Google.

1. Music of Africa
Prepared by: Jetlee Cumbe

2. M
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3. Africa A
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4. Africa
daily life
Wor
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ReligionCeremon
ies
Communication

5. Birth
Deat
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Initiati
on
Marriage
Funer
als
Singing Dancing Hand
clapping
Beating of
drums

6. Music and dance are
also important to
religious expression
and political events.

7. Others are work
related or social in
nature, while many
traditional societies
view their music as
entertainment.

8. Traditional Music of
Africa

9. African traditional
music is largely
functional in nature,
used primarily in
ceremonial rites

10. basically interlocking
structural format, due
mainly to its
overlapping and
dense texture as well
as its rhythmic

11. Its many sources of
influence have
produced such varied
styles and genres as
the following

12. Some types of African Music
Afrob
eat
Apal
a Axe
Jive Jit Kwassa
Kwassa
Juju Marabi

13. Afrobeat
A term used to describe
the fusion of West
African with black
American music.

14. Apala
A musical genre from Nigeria in
the Yoruba tribal style to wake up
the worshippers after fasting
during the Muslim holy feast of
Ramadan. Percussion
instrumentation includes the rattle
(sekere), thumb piano (agidigbo),
bell (agogo), and two or three
talking drums.

15. Axe
A popular musical genre
from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
It fuses the Afro-Caribbean
styles of the marcha, reggae,
and calypso.

16. Jit
A hard and fast percussive
Zimbabwean dance music
played on drums with guitar
accompaniment, influenced
by Mbira-based guitar styles.

17. Jive
A popular form of South
African music featuring a
lively and uninhibited
variation of the jitterbug, a
form of swing dance

18. 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. A drum kit,
keyboard, pedal steel guitar, and
accordion are used along with the
traditional dun-dun (talking drum
or squeeze drum).

19. Kwassa Kwassa
A dance style begun in Zairein the
late 1980’s, popularized by Kanda
Bongo Man. In this dance style, the
hips move back and forth while the
arms move following the hips.

20. Marabi
A South African three-chord
township music of the 1930s-1960s
which evolved into African Jazz.
Possessing a keyboard style
combining American jazz, ragtime
and blues with African roots

21. Activity 1: Music
1. What are the
purpose of music in
Africa?

22. Review

23. Afrob
eat
Apal
a Axe
Jive Jit Kwassa
Kwassa
Juju Marabi

24. Kwassa Kwassa
A dance style, which
the hips move back
and forth while the
arms move following
the hips.

25. Afrobeat
A term used to
describe the fusion of
West African with
black American
music.

26. Apala
A musical genre from
Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal
style to wake up the
worshippers after fasting
during the Muslim holy
feast of Ramadan.

27. Jive
A popular form of South
African music featuring a
lively and uninhibited
variation of the jitterbug, a
form of swing dance

28. Axe
A popular musical genre
from Salvador, Bahia,
Brazil. It fuses the Afro-
Caribbean styles of the
marcha, reggae, and
calypso.

29. Latin American music with
the Influnce of Africa
music

30. Reggae
Jamaican musical style
Influence of Island’s
traditional mento music
Offbeat Rhythm

31. Salsa
Cuban, Puerto Rico, and
Colobmbian dance music

32. Samba
Brazilian Musical Genre
and dance style
Lively and rhythmical
beats
Timed dance – set of
dances

33. Soca
Soul of Calypso
Calypso and Indian
Musica
Calypso - Afro-carribean
musuc

34. Were
Muslim music often
performed as a wake up
call for early breakfast and
prayers during Ramadan
celebrations.

35. Zouk
Carnival-like rhythmic
music
Party

36. REVIEW

37. Samba
It is a Brazilian Musical
Genre and dance style
which also a timed dance.

38. Soca
Soul of Calypso

39. Reggae
It is a Jamaican musical
style with the Influence of
Island’s traditional mento
music and Offbeat
Rhythm

40. Were
Muslim music often
performed as a wake up
call for early breakfast and
prayers during Ramadan
celebrations.

41. Salsa
A Cuban, Puerto Rico,
and Colombian dance
music

42. Zouk
Carnival-like rhythmic
music

43. Instrumental
Music of africa

44. instruments
Idiophones Membranophones
Chordophones Aerophones

45. instruments
Idiophones Membranophones
Chordophones Aerophones

46. Balafon Rattles Agogo
Atingting
kon
Slit drum Djembe
Shekere Rasp

47. BalafonThe balafon is a West African
xylophone. It is a pitched percussion
instrument with bars made from logs
or bamboo

48. Balafon

49. BAlafon
• BALAFON 2

50. Rattles
Rattles are made of seashells, basketry,
animal hoofs, horn, and wood, metal
bells, cocoons, palm kernels, or tortoise
shells. These rattling vessels may range
from single to several objects that are
either joined or suspended in such a way
as they hit each other

51. Rattles

52. agogo
•The agogo is a single bell or
multiple bells that had its
origins in traditional Yoruba
music and also in the samba
baterias (percussion)
ensembles.

53. agogo
The agogo may be called “the oldest
samba instrument based on West
African Yoruba single or double
bells.” It has the highest pitch of any
of the bateria instruments

54. agogo

55. Atingting
kon
These are slit gongs used to
communicate between villages. They
were carved out of wood to resemble
ancestors and had a “slit opening” at
the bottom.

56. Atingting
kon
In certain cases, their sound could carry for
miles through the forest and even across
water to neighboring islands. A series of gong
“languages” were composed of beats and
pauses, making it possible to send highly
specific messages

58. Slit drums
The slit drum is a hollow percussion
instrument. Although known as a
drum, it is not a true drum but is an
idiophone. It is usually carved or
constructed from bamboo or wood
into a box with one or more slits in
the top

59. Slit drums

60. Djembe
The West African djembe (pronounced
zhem-bay) is one of the best-known African
drums is. It is shaped like a large goblet and
played with bare hands. The body is carved
from a hollowed trunk and is covered in
goat skin.

61. Djembe
These drums are played using hands or
sticks or both; and sometimes have
rattling metal and jingles attached to the
outside or seeds and beads placed inside
the drum. They are sometimes held
under the armpit or with a sling.

62. Djembe

63. Shekere
The shekere is a type of gourd
and shell megaphone from
West Africa, the gourd.

64. Shekere

65. Rasp
A rasp, or scraper, is a hand
percussion instrument whose sound is
produced by scraping the notches on
a piece of wood (sometimes
elaborately carved) with a stick,
creating a series of rattling effects

66. rasp

67. Review………..

68. Balafon Rattles Agogo
Atingting
kon
Slit drum Djembe
Shekere Rasp

69. Slit drums

70. rasp

71. Balafon

72. Djembe

73. ATINGTING
KON

74. Agogo

75. shekere

76. rattles

77. Membranophones

78. Membranophones
Are instruments, usually
drums, which have vibrating
animal membranes.

79. Body percussion
Africans frequently use their
bodies as musical
instruments. Aside from their
voices, where many of them
are superb singers,

80. Body percussion
the body also serves as a drum
as people clap their hands, slap
their thighs, pound their upper
arms or chests, or shuffle their
feet.

81. Talking drum
The talking drum is used to send
messages to announce births,
deaths, marriages, sporting
events, dances, initiation, or
war.

82. Talking drum
Sometimes it may also contain
gossip or jokes. It is believed that
the drums can carry direct messages
to the spirits after the death of a
loved one

83. Lamellophone

84. One of the most popular African
percussion instruments is the
Lamellaphone, which is a set of
plucked tongues or keys
mounted on a sound board

85. It is known by different names
according to the regions such as
mbira, karimba, kisaanj, and
likembe.

86. Mbira
(hand piano or thumb piano) -
The thumb piano or finger
xylophone is of African origin
and is used throughout the
continent.

87. Mbira
It consists of a wooden board with
attached staggered metal tines (a series of
wooden, metal, or rattan tongues), plus
an additional resonator to increase its
volume. It is played by holding the
instrument in the hands and plucking the
tines with the thumbs, producing a soft
plucked sound
PLAY 2

88. Chordophone

89. Musical bow
The musical bow is the ancestor of all string
instruments. It is the oldest and one of the
most widely-used string instruments of
Africa. It consists of a single string attached
to each end of a curved stick, similar to a
bow and arrow. The string is either plucked
or struck with another stick, producing a
percussive yet delicate sound

90. Musical bow

91. Lute
The lute, originating from the Arabic states, is shaped
like the modern guitar and played in similar fashion.
It has a resonating body, a neck, and one or more
strings which stretch across the length of its body and
neck. The player tunes the strings by tightening or
loosening the pegs at the top of the lute’s neck. West
African plucked lutes include the konting, khalam,
and the nkoni.

92. Lute

93. Kora
The kora is Africa's most sophisticated harp,
while also having features similar to a lute. Its
body is made from a gourd or calabash. A
support for the bridge is set across the opening
and covered with a skin that is held in place with
studs. The leather rings around the neck are used
to tighten the 21 strings that give the instrument
a range of over three octaves

94. KORA

95. Zither
The zither is a stringed instrument with
varying sizes and shapes whose strings
are stretched along its body. Among the
types of African zither is the raft or
Inanga zither from Burundi, the tubular
or Valiha zither from Malagasy, and the
harp or Mvet zither from Cameroon.

96. Zither

97. Zeze
The zeze is an African fiddle played
with a bow, a small wooden stick, or
plucked with the fingers. It has one or
two strings, made of steel or bicycle
brake wire.

98. Zeze

99. Aerophone

100. Flutes
Flutes are widely used throughout
Africa and either vertical or side-blown.
They are usually fashioned from a
single tube closed at one end and blown
like a bottle

101. Atenteben
FULANI
FLUTES
PANPIPES

102. Horns
Horns and trumpets, found almost
everywhere in Africa, are commonly
made from elephant tusks and animal
horns.

103. HORNS

104. Trumpets
African trumpets are made of wood, metal,
animal horns, elephant tusks, and gourds
with skins from snakes, zebras, leopards,
crocodiles and animal hide as ornaments to
the instrument

105. Trumpets

106. Trumpets