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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.
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).
African drum made by Gerald Achee Drummers in Accra, Ghana. Sub-Saharan African music is characterised by a "strong rhythmic interest" [1] that exhibits common characteristics in all regions of this vast territory, so that Arthur Morris Jones (1889–1980) has described the many local approaches as constituting one main system. [2] C. K.
The guajeo shares rhythmic, melodic and harmonic similarities with the short ostinato figures played on marimbas, lamellophones, and string instruments in sub-Saharan Africa. The guajeo is a seamless blend of African and European musical sensibilities, and was first played as accompaniment on the tres in the Afro-Cuban son and related music ...
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 miles) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; [15] [16] [17] to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini ...
Many other African-American music genres, such as gospel and jazz, developed from this genre. Spirituals would continue to be created and played by African Americans post emancipation as well, bands like the Fisk Jubilee Singers would spread across America. While a couple bands like the Fisk Jubilee Singers made main stage appearances a bulk of ...
1] This is a list of South African composers, arranged in alphabetical order. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .