Analysis and analytic techniques in African music: A theory of melodic scales
- Title
- Analysis and analytic techniques in African music: A theory of melodic scales
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Subject
- African Music
- Abstract
- In our present study, we intend to show that a systematic analysis of the music of black Africa reveals an internal structural government of extraordinary order and symmetry. This study deals with the theory of melodic scales. Our examples will be taken from one area of Africa, the music of the Igbo of Nigeria; we have, however, shown elsewhere that examples of the same or a similar system operating in the music of other areas of black Africa abound in large numbers.
- Description
- pages: 89-106
- Created Date
- July 1, 1980
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
-
Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Author
-
Ekwueme, Lazarus
Value Annotations
- Is Part Of
-
University of Lagos
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-0207
- Identifier
-
1098
Value Annotations
- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
- WissKI URL
- 78985
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