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Ganda xylophone music

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ID8067456
AuthorsPeter Cooke (corresponding author)
Year1970
Volume4
Issue4
Pages62-80
Publication date1970-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAfrican Music: Journal of the African Music Society (JOURNAL)
PublisherRhodes University (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21504/amj.v4i4.1682
OpenAlexW2301378016
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited3

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

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Citation span1982 - 2023 (42)
Highly citedNo

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