The relationship between lyrics and melody in Rimi vocal music
Abstract
- Abstract
- This article on Rimi vocal music is written with two purposes in mind: 1) to introduce the reader to Rimi music, and 2) to demonstrate the correlation between a tonal language and vocal music. To achieve this goal a very simple finger counting song has been chosen for analysis. A study of Rimi vocal music was made in conjunction with the author’s linguistic analysis of the language. Since culture is a whole, and music is associated with so many aspects of the culture, linguistic research, of necessity, entailed an examination of Rjmi music. It was found that a knowledge of vocal music gave clues and corroboration to the tonal analysis of the language. Moreover, the study of the lyrics revealed many helpful examples of vowel coalescence.
Description
- Description
- pages: 126-128
Subjects
- Subject
- African Music
People & roles
- Author
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Olson, Howard S.
Value Annotations
Value Annotations
- Is Part Of
- Lutheran Theological College at Makumira
Origins & context
- Title
- The relationship between lyrics and melody in Rimi vocal 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
- July 1, 1980
Rights & access
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-0202
- Identifier
-
1100
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- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
Further details
- WissKI URL
- 78945