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The Pan-African Orchestra (PAO) is an orchestra using indigenous African traditions and instruments. It was founded as a 48-piece ensemble [ 1 ] in 1988 in Accra , Ghana , by Nana Danso Abiam . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Abiam died in a motor accident in Accra on 24 December 2014, in the early hours following his 61st birthday.
In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the use of music is not limited to entertainment: it serves a purpose to the local community and helps in the conduct of daily routines. Traditional African music supplies appropriate music and dance for work and for religious ceremonies of birth, naming, rites of passage, marriage and funerals. [1]
Traditional sub-Saharan African harmony is a music theory of harmony in sub-Saharan African music based on the principles of homophonic parallelism (chords based around a leading melody that follow its rhythm and contour), homophonic polyphony (independent parts moving together), counter-melody (secondary melody) and ostinato-variation (variations based on a repeated theme).
Nigeria-Hausa Music I — BM 30 L 2306 [1] Nigeria-Hausa Music II — BM 30 L 2307 [1] Music of the Senufo — BM 30 L 2308 [1] Chad Kanem — BM 30 L 2309 [1] Musics of the Central African Republic — BM 30 L 2310 [1] Reviewed by Alan P. Merriam in Ethnomusicology 15, #2 (May 1971), pp. 300-302, JSTOR 850481. Nigeria III: Igbo Music — BM 30 ...
The South African College of Music offers training in a range of orchestral instruments, piano, voice, African music and jazz. The college boasts several string, wind, jazz and percussion ensembles as well as choirs, a symphony orchestra and a big band. In addition the Opera School annually presents a season of opera performances. All students ...
African popular music (5 C, 28 P) African traditional music (7 P) A. African-American music in Africa (1 C, 7 P) Music of Algeria (10 C, 18 P) B. Music of Botswana (3 ...
Afro fusion (also spelled afrofusion or afro-fusion) [1] [2] is a dance and musical style that emerged between the 1970s and 2000s. [a] In the same way as the dance style, the musical style invokes fusions of various regional and inter-continental musical cultures, such as jazz, hip hop, kwaito, reggae, soul, pop, kwela, blues, folk, rock and afrobeat.
West African music is arguably the most famous version of African music. The diverse sounds and energies that make up the music and a little of language backing has led to an own original Afrobeat genre of music that has the whole respecting it. Afro music is known for its famous log drums and Shekere shakers that play throughout the songs.