VOLUME 6 1980 NUMBER 1
AFRICAN MUSIC
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Photograph of a painting on wood of a Zulu girl playing the umakhweyana bow, by Barbara Tyrrell. The instrument was mentioned in an article by David Rycroft in the last Journal,
“The Zulu bow songs of Princess Magogo” . There are also a number of recordings in the Sound of Africa series of the International Library of African Music.
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CONTENTS
page A WORD FROM THE E D I T O R ... 3 HUGH TRACEY, 1903- 1977 ... 4
1. FOLK MUSIC IN NIGERIA: A COMMUNION
Meki Nzewi . . . Nigeria . . . 6
2. APPEAL FOR CULTURAL EQUITY
Alan Lomax . . . 22
3. A STUDY OF THE DRUM LANGUAGE IN ADZOGBO
David Locke and Godwin K. Agbeli . Ghana, Togo, Benin . 32 4. MODELE STANDARD DE RANGEES DE CARREAUX
pour transcrire les traditions musicales africaines du Cameroun
Pie-Claude Ngumu . . . . Cameroon . . 52
ROWS OF SQUARES: a standard model for transcribing
traditional African music in Cameroon . . . 59
5. PANPIPES AND THE EQUIHEPTATONIC PITCH
A. M. Jones . . . Mozambique . . 62
6. LIKEMBE TUNINGS OF KUFUNA KANDONGA (ANGOLA)
Gerhard Kubik . . . . Angola . . . 70
7. ANALYSIS AND ANALYTIC TECHNIQUES IN AFRICAN MUSIC a theory o f melodic scales
Laz. E. N. Ekwueme . . Nigeria . . . 89
8. THE EQUIDISTANT HEPTATONIC SCALE OF THE ASENA IN MALAWI
Wim van Zanten . . . . Malawi . . . 107
9. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LYRICS AND MELODY IN R(MI VOCAL MUSIC
Howard Olson . . . . Tanzania . . 126
10. REV IEW S... 129 11. LETTERS TO THE E D I T O R ...136 12. NEW FILMS ON CHOPI M U S I C ...139
13. CONTRIBUTORS 21
14. C O N T R I B U T IO N S ... ... 135
15. MAP AND ORIGIN OF ARTICLES . . . Outside Back Cover
T h e o p in io n s expressed b y c o n trib u to rs are perso n al and are n o t necessarily th o se o f th e In te rn a tio n a l L ib rary o f A frican Music
