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Umhlanga [um̩ɬaːŋɡa], or Reed Dance ceremony, is an annual Swazi event that takes place at the end of August or at the beginning of September. [1] In Eswatini , tens of thousands of unmarried and childless Swazi girls and women travel from the various chiefdoms to the Ludzidzini Royal Village to participate in the eight-day event. [ 2 ]
Ukusina dance is a fundamental component of the social, religious, and cultural life of the Zulu people, [5] as evidenced by the descriptions of traditional dances in South Africa. [2] Everyone in attendance is drawn into a coherent action atmosphere by the intimate relationship between body movement and music. [6]
Launeddas are used to play a complex style of music by circular breathing that has achieved some international attention, especially Efisio Melis, Antonio Lara, Dionigi Burranca and Luigi Lai. Melis and Lara were the biggest stars of the 1930s golden age of launeddas, and each taught their style to apprentices like Lara's Aureliu Porcu .
The piri player often switches to taepyeongso, producing a louder sound so that his own group of ritual specialists can follow the music better". [19] Seo also mentions "ssang hojeok" (two taepyeongso played simultaneously), [ 19 ] and the use of seven taepyeongso played simultaneously during a portion of the ritual in which her informant ...
The Parsons code, formally named the Parsons code for melodic contours, is a simple notation used to identify a piece of music through melodic motion – movements of the pitch up and down. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Denys Parsons (father of Alan Parsons [ 3 ] ) developed this system for his 1975 book The Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes .
When groups of players get together, only one akete player may play at any one time. The other drums keep regular rhythms while the akete players solo in the form of a conversation. Only Rastamen are allowed to play drums at Nyahbingi. There are membranophones played at a groundation ceremony in rasta culture.
A dance tune with two simple instructions and involving thousands of bouncing, orange-clad soccer fans has gone viral at this year’s European Championships.
Much later, single-reed instruments started using heteroglottal reeds, where a reed is cut and separated from the tube of cane and attached to a mouthpiece of some sort. By contrast, in an uncapped double reed instrument (such as the oboe and bassoon), there is no mouthpiece; the two parts of the reed vibrate against one another.