2nd Quarter Lesson #1 MAPEH For Today's Learner 10 African Music

1. AFRO-LATIN AND
POPULAR MUSIC

2. Music of Africa
 Historical and Cultural Background of African Music
Singing, dancing, hand clapping, and the beating of
drums are essential to many ceremonies : birth,
death, initiation, marriage and funerals.
Important to religious expression and political
events.
It has great influences on global music (
contemporary American, Latin American, and
European styles)

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4. Traditional Music of Africa
Apala
Musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal
style to wake up the worshippers after fasting
during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan.
Instrumentation includes the rattle(sekere),
thumb piano (agidigbo), bell (agogo) and two or
three talking drums.

5. Traditional Music of Africa
 Axe
Popular musical genre from Salvador, Bahia
and Brazil. It fuses the Afro-Carribean styles
of the marcha, reggae and calypso.
 Jit
Hard and fast Zimbabwean dance music
played on drums with guitar accompaniment.

6. Traditional Music of Africa
 Jive- Lively and uninhibited variation of
jitterbug
 Juju
Popular style from Nigeria that relies on the
traditional Yoruba rhythms.
 Kwassa Kwassa
Shake your booty dance style begun in
Zaire in the late 80’s.

7. Music of Africa
 Marabi
Characterized by simple chords in varying
vamping patterns and repetitive harmony
over an extended period of time to allow the
dances more time on the dance floor.
 Reggae- Jamaican sound dominated by bass
and guitar chops associated with
Rastsafarian religion.

8. Music of Africa
Salsa- Afro-Cuban music.
Samba- Typifies most Brazilian music
Soca- Modern Trinidadian and Tobago
pop music combining “soul” and
“calypso” music.

9. Music of Africa
 Were- Muslim music performed often
as a wake-up call for early breakfast
and prayers during Ramadan
celebration.
 Zouk- Fast, carnival-like rhythmic
music from the Creole slang word for
“party” Originating in the Carribean
Islands of Guadalupe and Martinique.

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11. Vocal Forms of African Music
 1. Maracatu
Surfaced in the African state of
Pernambuco, combining the strong rhythms
of African percussion instruments with
Portugese melodies. It uses mostly
percussion instruments such as the alfaia,
tarol, and caixa-de-Guerra, gongue, agbe,
and miniero.

12. Vocal Forms of African Music
2. Blues
Musical form of the late 19th century that has
had deep roots in African-American
communities ( “Deep South” of the United
States). Slaves used to sing as they worked in
the cotton and vegetable fields.

13. Vocal Forms of African Music
The form of the blues is
characterized by specific chord
progression. The twelve-bar blues is
the most common form. The notes
of the blues are normally flattened
or gradually bent.

14. Vocal Forms of African Music
 3. Soul
It combines elements of African-
American gospel music, rhythm and
blues, and often jazz. The catchy rhythms
are accompanied by handclaps and
extemporaneous body moves which are
among its important features.

15. Vocal Forms of African Music
Other characteristics include call
and response between soloist and
the chorus, and an especially tense
and powerful vocal sound.

16. Musical Instruments of Africa
 IDIOPHONES
1. Xylophone: Balafon
2. Rattles( made of shells, tin, animal hoofs,
horn, wood, metal, bells, cocoons, palm kernels,
or tortoise shells)
3. Agogo(bell)- has the highest pitch of any of
the bacteria instruments.

17. Musical Instruments of Africa
4. Rasps- a hand percussion instrument
whose sound is produced by scraping a
group of notched sticks with another
stick, creating a series of rattling effects.

18. Musical Instruments of Africa
5. Drums ( slit or log)
Slit drum- hollow percussion
instrument, although known as a drum,
it is not a true drum.
Long drum- best known is the West
African djembe, log drum.

19. Musical Instruments of Africa
6. Atingting Kon (Slit gong)- They
were used to communicate
between villages.

20. Musical Instruments of Africa
B. MEMBRANOPHONES
Examples of these are found in the different
localities:
Entenga ( Ganda)
Dundun (Yoruba)
Atumpan (Akan)
Ngoma (Shona)

21. Musical Instruments of Africa
B.1 Body Percussion
B.2 Talking Drum
C. LAMELLAPHONE- a set of plucked keys
mounted on a sound board, known by different
names according to the regions such as mbira,
karimba, kisaanj, likembe.

22. Musical Instruments of Africa
 D. CHORDOPHONES-
 D1. Musical bow- Earth bow, mouth bow
and the resonator-bow are the principle
types of musical bows.
 D2. Harp
 D3. Lute ( konting, khalam, and the nkoni)
 D4. Zither

23. Musical Instruments of Africa
AEROPHONES- Flutes in various sizes
and shapes ( Fulani flutes ). Panpipes
and Horns( Kudo horns)

24. Slit drum

25. Shekere

26. Agogo

27. Djembe

28. Mbira ( Hand piano or Thumb piano )