East Africa
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Track 5 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 2. Song and dance music from Uganda from Saydisc album 'Spirit of African Sanctus' (2'23")
Main features: instrumentation, rhythmic and melodic ostinatos, call and response.
This celebratory music from Uganda features a call and response, accompanied by two edongos (bowed harps), clap-sticks, seed-pod shaker and drum. The Track Explorer has four learning tracks focusing on instrumentation, melodic and rhythmic ostinatos and the call and response.
Official classification: Listening, Ostinato, Call and response, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Uganda, East Africa, Choral (World), Unit 8 Ongoing Skills, Unit 15 Ongoing Skills, Edongo, Clapsticks, Seed pod shaker, Track Explorer, 4a Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - aural memory, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Unit 9. Music for dance, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Tags: Uganda accompanied call and response
Track 11 from Saydisc "Percussion Around the World" - notes from Maureen Hanke.
'Teso Fishermen' is a recording of fishermen who have migrated to Lake Kyoga, East Africa.
They are singing simply because they are happy.
In Africa, music is often played for rites of passages, births, deaths, puberty, marriage, for socialising, for therapy and healing.
This piece of music features instruments and music making traditional to areas in East Africa. The singers accompany themselves on the mbira (referred to in the West as the thumb piano).
The mbira is a collection of tuned metal tongues fitted to a box or a plain board in such a way that one end of the tongue can vibrate freely. The free ends of the tongues are depressed and released by the player using thumbs or fingers. Very often the sound is made to buzz by attaching shells or metal rattles to the board or the resonator or both. the tuning of the tongues varies from region to region.
( in a music session listen for the rattle. Listen and discuss the differences between the tune which is sung and the accompaniment)
Official classification: Percussion, Timbre, Ostinato, Audio, Key Stage 3, Uganda, East Africa, Mbira, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 13 from Saydisc "Percussion Around the World" - notes from Maureen Hanke.
War Drums, an African piece of music, features Sudan war drums. The drums have a copper base and are also referred to as the nihass, derived from the Arabic word for copper. The drums in this recording are owned by Sheikh Mohammed El Amin Tiriq Nazir (head) of the Hadandwa tribe and are being played to summon support about a tribal dispute concerning the water wells at Woga.
Official classification: Percussion, Timbre, Audio, Key Stage 3, Sudan, East Africa, War Drums, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 14 from Saydisc "Percussion Around the World" - notes from Maureen Hanke.
'Ritual Burial Dance', an African piece, features Mayinda Orawo, a highly respected chief of the Luos who is also known as the Hippo Man.
He is heard here playing a repeated pattern drum. The gourd horns, flutes, rattles and whistles create the mournful wailing of sorrow.
Official classification: Percussion, Timbre, Funerals, Audio, Key Stage 3, Africa, East Africa, Gourd Horn, East Africa, Unit 9. Music for dance, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 10 from Saydisc "Percussion Around the World" - notes from Maureen Hanke.
'Busoga Fishermen' is a recording of fishermen who have migrated to Lake Kyoga, East Africa.
They are singing simply because they are happy.
In Africa, music is often played for rites of passages, births, deaths, puberty, marriage, for socialising, for therapy and healing.
This piece of music features instruments and music making traditional to areas in East Africa. The singers accompany themselves on the mbira (referred to in the West as the thumb piano).
The mbira is a collection of tuned metal tongues fitted to a box or a plain board in such a way that one end of the tongue can vibrate freely. The free ends of the tongues are depressed and released by the player using thumbs or fingers. Very often the sound is made to buzz by attaching shells or metal rattles to the board or the resonator or both. the tuning of the tongues varies from region to region.
( in a music session listen for the rattle. Listen and discuss the differences between the tune which is sung and the accompaniment)
Official classification: Percussion, Timbre, Ostinato, Audio, Key Stage 3, Uganda, East Africa, Mbira, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Displaying 1 to 5 of 5 resources labelled with 'East Africa'