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Canto Ostinato ("Obstinate Song" (as ostinato)) is a musical composition written by the Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt. The piece was completed in 1976 and performed for the first time in 1979 and is by far his most popular and most performed work.
Ostinato figures are also played on string instruments such as the kora, gankoqui bell ensembles, and pitched drums ensembles. Often, African ostinatos contain offbeats or cross-beats, that contradict the metric structure. [20] Other African ostinatos generate complete cross-rhythms by sounding both the main beats and cross-beats.
The lead single "Live While We're Young" was released on 30 September 2012, [6] and recorded the highest opening week sales figure for a song by a non-US artist. [7] "Little Things" and "Kiss You", the succeeding singles, were also successes. One Direction's third studio album, Midnight Memories, was released on 25 November 2013.
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).
Jody Williams (born May 17, 1990) is a South African pop/R&B singer. She won the fourth season of the South African reality television singing competition Idols on 9 December 2007 at age 17, making her the youngest winner of the competition until 2017, when Paxton Fielies won the Competition at age 17.
Two more singles, "Anak" and "Sa Ugoy Ng Duyan", were released in 1992 from Tagala Tagala. [5] Velasquez released her fourth studio album Reason Enough in 1993. [ 7 ] On it, she recorded a duet with Canadian singer Paul Anka for the record's first single "It's Hard to Say Goodbye", marking her first musical collaboration with an international ...
Pygmy music refers to the sub-Saharan African music traditions of the Central African foragers (or "Pygmies"), predominantly in the Congo, the Central African Republic and Cameroon. Pygmy groups include the Bayaka, the Mbuti, and the Batwa. Music is an important part of Pygmy life, and casual performances take place during many of the day's events.
Confusion is a one-song Afrobeat album that begins with an entirely instrumental first half, which features free form interplay between Kuti's electric piano and drummer Tony Allen. It leads to an extended mid-tempo section with Allen's polyrhythms and tenor saxophone by Kuti, who subsequently delivers call-and-response vocal passages.