Ethiopian Music
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- Created on: 08-12-14 12:36
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- Ethiopian Music
- Geography
- Smale scale subsistence agriculture. (Big famine of 1984)
- Population is over 90 million
- 1 Million Km squared
- Religion
- Christian Orthodox 43.5%
- Muslim 33.9%
- Protestant 18.6%
- Traditional 2.6%
- Christian Orthodox since 332 A.D.
- Politics
- Only African country to resist colonisation
- Amharic Highlands music
- Ancient system of notation for sacred music (Melekket - Late 16th Century)
- Texture
- Monophonic and Heterophonic
- Style
- Vocally Melismatic
- Qeñet system: four main pentatonic “modes” or tuning systems
- Qeñet system:
- Four main qeñet: Tezeta, Bati, Anchihoy, Ambassel
- Each qeñet is characterised by a set of five intervals (they are not ‘scales’, but pentatonic ‘modes’)
- Intervals are fixed, while pitch is not
- Each qeñet has a central/most recurring note, called melash
- Normally, the qeñet doesn’t change within a song
- When sung, or when played on indigenous instruments, pitches and intervals are not tempered
- Rhythm
- Ternary meters particularly common
- Liturgical Instruments
- S'enas'el (Tsenatsil) sistrum rattle
- Kebero double-headed barrel drum
- Instruments
- Embilta set of end-blown reed flutes played in ensemble
- Washint end-blown flute played solo
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Baganna
- 10 string lyre with box-shaped resonator
- Aristocratic instrument, played by clerics and the nobility
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Krar
- 5 or 6 stringed lyre with bowl shaped resonator
- Association with Devil due to its function as an accompaniment of songs praising love and beauty
- Played by azmaris
- The Azmari
- the secular musicians of Ethiopian traditional music.
- solo musicians who sing accompanying themselves with the masinqo or the krar (modern azmari also use accordion).
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- Traditionally, azmari were roving musicians (not unlike European minstrels or to the Mande griots).
- Geography
- Geography
- Smale scale subsistence agriculture. (Big famine of 1984)
- Population is over 90 million
- 1 Million Km squared
- Religion
- Christian Orthodox 43.5%
- Muslim 33.9%
- Protestant 18.6%
- Traditional 2.6%
- Christian Orthodox since 332 A.D.
- Politics
- Only African country to resist colonisation
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