Analysis and analytic techniques in African music: A theory of melodic scales
Abstract
- 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
- Description
- pages: 89-106
Subjects
- Subject
- African Music
People & roles
- Author
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Ekwueme, Lazarus
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- Is Part Of
- University of Lagos
Origins & context
- Title
- Analysis and analytic techniques in African music: A theory of melodic scales
- 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-99-0207
- Identifier
-
1098
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- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
Further details
- WissKI URL
- 78985