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This document provides information about the classification and description of traditional African musical instruments. It divides instruments into four main categories: idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, and aerophones. Examples are provided for each category of instruments, describing what they are made of and how they produce sound through being struck, having vibrating membranes, vibrating strings, or trapping air. The document seeks to teach students to classify African instruments according to these categories.

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q2 PPT Music10 Module3

This document provides information about the classification and description of traditional African musical instruments. It divides instruments into four main categories: idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, and aerophones. Examples are provided for each category of instruments, describing what they are made of and how they produce sound through being struck, having vibrating membranes, vibrating strings, or trapping air. The document seeks to teach students to classify African instruments according to these categories.

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Learning Competency: (MU10APIIa-g-2)

Specific Objectives:
✔Classify and describe the
group of musical instruments
of Africa.
ONEHOPIDI

These are percussion


instruments that are either
struck with a mallet or against
one another.
BRANOMEMHOPEN

These are instruments which


have vibrating animal
membranes usually drums.
PHONEOCHORD

These are instruments which


produce sounds from the
vibration of strings.
ENOHPOREA
AEROPHONE

These are instruments that


produce sounds primarily by
trapping a body or column of
air and causing it to vibrate.
Classify the instruments whether Idiophone,
Chordophone, Membranophone or Aerophone
IDIOPHONE MEMBRANOPHO CHORDOPHONE AEROPHONE
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IDIOPHONES
BALAFON – is a west African xylophone. It is a
pitched percussion instrument with bars made from
logs or bamboo.

RATTLES – are vessels made of seashells, tin,


basketry, animal hoofs, horn, wood, metal, cocoons,
pal kernel or tortoise shells that create sounds when
they hit each other.

AGOGO – a single bell or multiple bells that had its


origins in Traditional Yoruba music as well as in the
Samba Bateria ensembles.
IDIOPHONES
ATINGTING KON – are slit gongs used as
communication between villages. Traditionally, they
were carved out of wood to resemble ancestors and
had a slit opening at the bottom.

SLIT DRUM – is a hollow percussion instruments


carved or constructed from bamboo or wood into a
box with one or more slits in the top.

DJEMBE – one of the best known African drums. It


shaped like large goblet ad played with bare hands.
IDIOPHONES
SHEKERE – is a type of gourd and shell
megaphone from west Africa consisting of a dried
gourd with beads woven into a net covering the
gourd.

RASP – or scraper is a hand percussion instrument


whose sound is produced by scraping the notches on a
piece of wood with a stick, creating a series of rattling
effects.
MEMBRANOPHONES
BODY PERCUSSION – African people usually se
their bodies as musical instruments (clapping,
slapping of thighs, pounding of upper arms or chest
or shuffle and stamp of feet.)

TALKING DRUMS – used to send messages to


announce births, deaths, marriages, sporting events,
dances, invitation or war. Sometimes the gossip may
even contain gossips or jokes.
LAMELLAPHONE
MBIRA (thumb piano or finger xylophone)
– originally from Zimbabwe used throughout the
continent. It consist of a wooden board with
attached metal tines of graduated sizes. It is used
in ceremonial functions such as weddings, funerals
and in honor of significant people as well as
religious purposes.
CHORDOPHONES
MUSICAL BOW – is the ancestor of all string
instruments it is the oldest one of the most widely-
used string instruments in Africa. The principal types
are the mouth bow, resonator bow and earth bow.

LUTE – originating from the Arabic states; is


shaped like the modern guitar and played in similar
fashion. West African plucked lutes include the
Konting, Khalam and Nkoni.
CHORDOPHONES
KORA – Is Africa’s most sophisticated harp, while
also having features similar to a lute. Its body is made
from a gourd or calabash. The Kora is help upright
and played with fingers.

ZITHER – is a stringed instruments with varying


sizes and shapes whose strings are stretched along its
body.

ZEZE – a fiddle from Sub-Saharan Africa played


with bow, a small wooden stick or plucked with the
fingers.
AEROPHONES
FLUTES – are widely used throughout Africa.
1. Anteben is a bamboo flute from Ghana
2. Fulani is a traditional flute of the Fulani
people (Guinea)
3. Panpipes consists of different lengths tied in
a row or bundle.
AEROPHONES
HORNS – are found almost everywhere in
Africa and are commonly made from elephant
tusks and animal horns.
1. Kudu Horn releases a mellow and warm
sound that adds unique African accent to
the music.

REED PIPES – the most familiar is the Rhaita


or Ghaita, an oboe like double reed instrument
from Northwest Africa.
AEROPHONES
WHISTLES – were found throughout the continent
and maybe made of wood or other materials. Short
pieces of horn serve as whistles often with a short
tube inserted into the mouthpiece (African Whistles).

TRUMPETS – are made of wood, metal, animal


horns, elephant tusks or other animals. They are
mostly ceremonial in nature often used to announce
the arrival or departure of important guests.
Questions!
•What are the classifications of
African music?
•What are the characteristics in
each classification of African
Music?
Classify the following
instruments according to its
category
“Study without desire spoils the
memory, and it retains nothing that it
takes in.”
— Leonardo da Vinci

See You Next Time!

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