Kambazithe Makolekole and his valimba group: a glimpse of the technique of the Sena xylophone
- Title
- Kambazithe Makolekole and his valimba group: a glimpse of the technique of the Sena xylophone
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Subject
- African Music
- Abstract
- The valimba xylophone of the Sena people of Malawi has been described by several writers, notably Kubik in his recently published two-record collection "Opeka Nyimbo". This article aims to amplify these descriptions, by discovering what it is that the young virtuoso players are actually doing on their huge xylophone, with its shimmering patterns of sound at breakneck tempo, its sudden repeated notes, and its rich harmonic sequences that are clearly related to those of the Shona in Zimbabwe and then- neighbours in Mozambique and Northern Transvaal, and by providing descriptions of the actual playing technique of the instrument to demonstrate something of its unique style.
- Description
- pages: 82-104
- Created Date
- July 12, 2017
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
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Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Author
-
Tracey, Andrew
Value Annotations
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-0257
- Identifier
-
1932
Value Annotations
- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
- WissKI URL
- 79616
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