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38 relations: Additive rhythm and divisive rhythm, Agogô, Arthur Morris Jones, Bell pattern, Benin, Call and response (music), Clapping, Cross-beat, Cycle (music), Dagomba people, Dance, Diatonic and chromatic, Dominant (music), Drum, Ewe drumming, Ewe people, Fermata, Ghana, Hemiola, Instrumentation (music), King Mensah, Melody, Metre (music), Music, Percussion instrument, Repetition (music), Rest (music), Rhythm, Sharp (music), Song, Studies in African Music, Sub-Saharan African music traditions, Subdominant, Teleology, Togo, Tuplet, V. Kofi Agawu, West Africa.
Additive rhythm and divisive rhythm
In music, the terms additive and divisive are used to distinguish two types of both rhythm and meter.
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Agogô
An agogô (Yoruba: agogo, meaning bell) is a single or multiple bell now used throughout the world but with origins in traditional Yoruba music and also in the samba baterias (percussion ensembles).
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Arthur Morris Jones
Arthur Morris Jones (1889–1980), was a missionary and musicologist who worked in Zambia during the early 20th century.
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Bell pattern
A bell pattern is a rhythmic pattern of striking a hand-held bell or other instrument of the Idiophone family, to make it emit a sound at desired intervals.
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Benin
Benin (Bénin), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin) and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.
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Call and response (music)
In music, a call and response is a succession of two distinct phrases usually written in different parts of the music, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or in response to the first.
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Clapping
A clap is the percussive sound made by striking together two flat surfaces, as in the body parts of humans or animals.
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Cross-beat
In music, a cross-beat or cross-rhythm is a specific form of polyrhythm.
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Cycle (music)
Cycle has several meanings in the field of music.
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Dagomba people
The Dagombas are an ethnic group of northern Ghana, numbering about 931,000 (2012).
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Dance
Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.
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Diatonic and chromatic
Diatonic (διατονική) and chromatic (χρωματική) are terms in music theory that are most often used to characterize scales, and are also applied to musical instruments, intervals, chords, notes, musical styles, and kinds of harmony.
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Dominant (music)
In music, the dominant is the fifth scale degree of the diatonic scale, called "dominant" because it is next in importance to the tonic, and a dominant chord is any chord built upon that pitch, using the notes of the same diatonic scale.
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Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.
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Ewe drumming
Ewe drumming refers to the drumming ensembles of the Ewe people of Ghana, Togo, and Benin.
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Ewe people
The Ewe people (Eʋeawó, lit. "Ewe people"; or Mono Kple Volta Tɔ́sisiwo Dome, lit. "Ewe nation","Eʋenyigba" Eweland) are an African ethnic group.
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Fermata
A fermata ("from fermare, to stay, or stop"; also known as a hold, pause, colloquially a birdseye or cyclops eye, or as a grand pause when placed on a note or a rest) is a symbol of musical notation indicating that the note should be prolonged beyond the normal duration its note value would indicate.
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Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.
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Hemiola
In music, hemiola (also hemiolia) is the ratio 3:2.
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Instrumentation (music)
In music, instrumentation is the particular combination of musical instruments employed in a composition, and the properties of those instruments individually.
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King Mensah
King Mensah (born August 12, 1971) known as "The Golden Voice of Togo", is one of the most popular musical acts from Togo, West Africa.
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Melody
A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
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Metre (music)
In music, metre (Am. meter) refers to the regularly recurring patterns and accents such as bars and beats.
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Music
Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.
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Repetition (music)
Repetition is important in music, where sounds or sequences are often repeated.
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Rest (music)
A rest is an interval of silence in a piece of music, marked by a symbol indicating the length of the pause.
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Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".
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Sharp (music)
In music, sharp, dièse (from French), or diesis (from Greek) means higher in pitch.
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Song
A song, most broadly, is a single (and often standalone) work of music that is typically intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections.
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Studies in African Music
Studies in African Music is a 1959 book in two volumes by A.M. Jones.
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Sub-Saharan African music traditions
Sub-Saharan African music traditions exhibit so many common features that they may in some respects be thought of as constituting a single musical system.
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Subdominant
In music, the subdominant is the technical name for the fourth tonal degree of the diatonic scale.
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Teleology
Teleology or finality is a reason or explanation for something in function of its end, purpose, or goal.
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Togo
Togo, officially the Togolese Republic (République Togolaise), is a sovereign state in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north.
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Tuplet
In music, a tuplet (also irrational rhythm or groupings, artificial division or groupings, abnormal divisions, irregular rhythm, gruppetto, extra-metric groupings, or, rarely, contrametric rhythm) is "any rhythm that involves dividing the beat into a different number of equal subdivisions from that usually permitted by the time-signature (e.g., triplets, duplets, etc.)".
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V. Kofi Agawu
Victor Kofi Agawu, who publishes as V. Kofi Agawu or more often simply as Kofi Agawu, is a music scholar from the Volta Region of Ghana.
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West Africa
West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewe_music
