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    African Music
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...music of the indigenous peoples of Africa. Sub-Saharan African music has as its distinguishing feature a...Africa (1961); F. Warren, The Music of Africa (1970); F. Bebey, African Music (1972); W. Bender, Sweet Mother...
     
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    Drum , in Music
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    DRUM , in music in music, percussion instrument, known in various...impressive range of tones. In Western music the kettledrum is of special importance...in Persia and spread throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe; it was later adapted into orchestral music. The kettledrum was formerly tuned by...
     
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    Arabian Music
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ARABIAN MUSIC classical musical tradition of the Islamic...Arabia, the Fertile Crescent, and North Africa. Characteristics, Forms, and Instruments The chief characteristics of Arabian music are modal homophony, florid ornamentation...equal to the chromatic scale of Western music. In the 13th cent. five more tones were...
     
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    Burlin, Natalie Curtis
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...musician, b. New York City, studied music in France and Germany. She was one...leading transcribers of the indigenous music of America and Africa, and it was through her efforts that Native American music was encouraged, rather than forbidden...
     
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    Makeba, Miriam
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...played a fundamental role in introducing African music to the West. Exiled from South Africa in the early 1960s because of her outspoken...symbol of opposition to apartheid . South African music formed the heart of her large and varied...
     

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