The use of metaphor and certain scale patterns in traditional music of Botswana
- Title
- The use of metaphor and certain scale patterns in traditional music of Botswana
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Abstract
- Three salient characteristics observed in recorded music in Botswana have been of particular interest to me during four years of music research in this country — carried out in the Kgatleng, Kweneng and Kgalagadi Districts. These are (1) the use of metaphor in the initiation song, (2) the appearance of the five-tone scale in Tswana traditional songs and (3) the presence of the four-tone scale in Basarwa (Bushman) songs and some of their instrumental music.
- Description
- pages: 107-114
- Created Date
- July 12, 1983
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
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Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Author
- Wood, Elizabeth N.
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-0232
- Identifier
-
1170
Value Annotations
- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
- WissKI URL
- 79324
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