Ennanga music
Abstract
- Abstract
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Ennatiga (harp) music, Amadinda (xylophone) music, and the music of the royal twelve- drum instrument Entenga form one complex within the musical traditions of the kingdom of Buganda. The same songs are performed on these three instruments, but while harp playing is always basis and accompaniment of a voice part, Amadinda and Entenga are purely instrumental representations of the same songs. The tune (= the voice part, as sung in the harp version) can, however, be recognized in the instrumental settings.
Most authors and musicians in Buganda (Kyagambiddwa, Muyinda, Sempebwa, etc.) agree that music of the type heard on the Amadinda and Entenga was originally composed as harp music, and later transferred to these instruments. The harpists pattern was . . . . broken up into two parts and each part is allocated to one of the (two) players of the madinda. The madinda players then produce the same song as played on the bow harp, and the idea is that that should be recognizable as the song which was produced in the first instance by the voice. . . . The primary instrument is the voice. (Sempebwa in the discussion part of G. Kubik: Xylophone Playing in Southern Uganda).
Description
- Description
- pages: 21-24
Subjects
People & roles
- Author
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Kubik, Gerhard
Value Annotations
Origins & context
- Is Part Of
- Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna
Origins & context
- Title
- Ennanga music
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
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Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Created Date
- November 30, 1966
Rights & access
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-0147
- Identifier
-
754
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Origins & context
- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
- WissKI URL
- 77349
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