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Zulu Musical Instruments, Essential To Develop Musical Traditions In Africa

African music is the music of Africans special
who live in a large region of 50 nations, The akadinda is a king of xylophone; two
each with a special culture, history and groups of African musicians are playing
language, South of Sahara. Zulu musical simultaneously. The first group is
instruments are part of this multilingual playing repeatedly the same pattern; the
culture. African music has some distinct second group plays to fill in the missing
characteristics: the use of repetition is sounds. Groups of Zulu musicians play
one of them. Another important also using flutes, trumpets or
characteristic is the polyphony; this is xylophones. Each player plays a single
the combination of different musical note in a strange rotation with the other
parts played simultaneously. players. The result is a polyphonic
The history is marked by the awesome piece, characteristic to African music.
military strategies of the Zulu King Musical practices of South African people
Shaka. The Kings and his warriors were observed from many years; Zulu
campaign of expansion is well known in musical instruments are obsolete. Venda
world history. Zulu rich traditional mbila is an old Zulu musical instrument;
culture includes songs, dances and it is not used anymore. Reed flutes,
colorful rituals, Zulu musical contrary, are still very popular. The
instruments are spectacular and original. influence of foreign cultures and
A variety of Zulu musical instruments are civilizations causes many of old Zulu
well known, s well as the traditional musical instruments to become obsolete.
Mine dance; Zulus have longtime used Musical instruments such as tsonga a
their music as a cry for freedom. horn, ingungu a friction drum, nkoka a
African music is really rich in modes of drum, pedi a flute, venda musical bow
expression: drum ensembles are using Zulu and stick, deze and demba thumb piano
musical instruments from the percussion and resonatos, umfece ankle rattles are
family. Each drummer uses special methods almost obsolete.
to produce sounds to distinguish his drum To preserve this awesome heritage of Zulu
from the others. Iron bells are very musical instruments, the necessary
popular Zulu musical instruments; they information was entered into a database;
are used to produce a repeated sound to each Zulu musical instrument was
help the drummers to play at the correct digitally photographed to preserve all
time. information about it.
Zulu musical instruments, rare and very




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