Ganda xylophone music: another approach
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https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v4i4.1682Keywords:
Ganda (African people) -- Music, Xylophone music --Uganda, Ethnomusicology -- UgandaAbstract
Over a period of many years musicologists have interested themselves in the Akadinda and Amadinda techniques of the Ganda people and a growing number of published articles give mention of, or are devoted to these two instruments. In a sense, the aims of this paper are similar to those stated by Kubik, namely "to show by what factors the individual parts of Kiganda xylophone music are predetermined and to what extent they are interdependent”. My approach, however, will be to compare the internal structure of the xylophone parts with known song texts which are related to them. I hope to demonstrate that the instrumental structures are closely related to the musico-phonological structures of the songs. I believe that such a relationship will be found inherent to all tuned instrument styles in Ganda culture and hope that this paper will contribute further to our understanding of this rich field of musical activity.References
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Blacking, John. 1961 Patterns of Nsenga Kalimba music. African Music: Journal of the African Music Society, [S.l.], v. 2, n. 4, p. 26-43. Available at: http://journal.ru.ac.za/index.php/africanmusic/article/view/704, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.704.
Hornbostel, E. 1928. African Negro Music. London: Oxford University Press.
Jassen, W. and Morton, J., 1965: Acoustic correlates of stress, Language and Speech, No. 8.
Kubik, Gerhard. 1962. The phenomenon of inherent rhythms in East and Central African instrumental music. African Music: Journal of the African Music Society, [S.l.], v. 3, n. 1, p. 33-42. Available at: http://journal.ru.ac.za/index.php/africanmusic/article/view/735, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21504/amj.v3i1.735.
Kubik, Gerad. 1964. Xylophone playing in southern Uganda", J.R.A.I., 94.
Kubik, Gerhard. 1969. Composition techniques in Kiganda xylophone music: with an introduction into some Kiganda musical concepts. African Music: Journal of the African Music Society, [S.l.], v. 4, n. 3, p. 22-72. Available at: http://journal.ru.ac.za/index.php/africanmusic/article/view/1437, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21504/amj.v4i3.1437.
Kyagambiddwa, J., 1956. African Music from the Source of the Nile. Atlantic Press, London.
Nketia, J. H. K., 1963. Folk Songs of Ghana, O.U.P., London.
Rycroft, D., 1967. Nguni vocal polyphony. J.LF.M.C.
Snoxall, R. A., 1967. A Luganda-English Dictionary.
Tracey, H., 1969 (with G. KUBIK and A. TRACEY). Codification of African Music and Textbook Proiect.
Tucker, A. N., 1962. The syllable in Luganda: a prosodic approach, J. Af. Lang, I,
Tucker, A. N., 1967: Intro. to SNOXALL, 1967.
Wachsmann, K. P., 1950. An equal-stepped tuning in a Ganda harp. Nature, 165, p. 40.
Wachsmann, K. P., 1953. Musicology in Uganda. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 83, no. 1, pp. 50-57
Wachsmann, K. P., 1958. A century of change in the folk music of an African tribe. J.I.F.M.C.
Wachsmann, K. P., 1965. Some speculations concerning a Drum Chime in Buganda. Man, Jan.-Feb.
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1970-08-05
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Cooke, Peter. 1970. “Ganda Xylophone Music: Another Approach”. African Music : Journal of the International Library of African Music 4 (4):62-80. https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v4i4.1682.
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