The polyrhythmic foundation of Tswana pipe melody
- Title
- The polyrhythmic foundation of Tswana pipe melody
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Musical instruments
- Music
- Pipe music
- Tswana (African people)
- Ethnomusicology
- Pipe (Musical instrument)
- Botswana
- Pipe (Instrument)
- African Music
- Abstract
- This paper proposes the theory that Tswana pipe melody is not initially conceived as melody at all, but is the result of the application of polyrhythms to the fixed pitches of the pipes of the ensemble in accordance with the norms of Tswana harmony.
- Description
- pages: 52-67
- Created Date
- June 21, 1965
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
-
Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Author
- Ballantine, Christopher
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-012f
- Identifier
-
1065
Value Annotations
- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
- WissKI URL
- 77141
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