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Ashanti musical instruments (2 P) Pages in category "Ghanaian musical instruments" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
The traditional musicology of Ghana may be divided geographically between the open and vast savanna country of northern Ghana inhabited by Ghanaians of Gur and Mande speaking groups; and the fertile, forested southern coastal areas, inhabited by Ghanaians speaking Kwa languages such as Akan.
Nketia, K. Aduonum, Akin Euba are among those who have written for atenteben and other African and/or Western instruments. In 1979, the neo-traditional art music composer and founder of the Pan African Orchestra of Ghana, Nana Danso Abiam (b. 1953) introduced chromaticism and atonality in atenteben music with a new fingering mechanism that he ...
Agbadza is an Ewe music and dance that evolved from the times of war into a very popular recreational dance. [1] It came from a very old war dance called Atrikpui and usually performed by the Ewe people of the Volta Region of Ghana, particularly during the Hogbetsotso Festival, a celebration by the Anlo Ewe people.
Along with one or two guitars and vocals, the traditional Ashanti palm wine ensemble consists of traditional instruments of West Africa, including the apentemma and the donno, the frikyiwa (metal castanet), the prempensua (rhumba box), the ntorwa (hollow gourd rattle with beads or seeds woven around it on a net), and the nnawuta (consisting of ...
Seperewa; String instrument; Classification: Ghanaian stringed instrument with 6-14 strings: Hornbostel–Sachs classification: 323-5 (Acoustic instruments which have a resonator as an integral part of the instrument, in which the plane of the strings lies at right angles to the sound-table; a line joining the lower ends of the strings would be perpendicular to the neck.
The drum originates from the Ga people of the Greater Accra Region in Ghana, West Africa. Kpanlogo is the name of a rhythm played on the tswreshi. The rhythm was composed around the 1950s in the wake of Ghana’s independence, and became popular. It is known as Ghana’s signature rhythm.
The gyil (English: / ˈ dʒ ɪ l ə, dʒ iː l /) is a pentatonic instrument common to the Gur-speaking populations in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali and Ivory Coast in West Africa. The Gyil is the primary traditional instrument of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and Burkina Faso, and of the Lobi of Ghana, southern Burkina Faso, and Ivory Coast.
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