african music

VOLUME 5 1971 NUMBER 1

AFRICAN MUSIC

JOURNAL OF THE AFRICAN MUSIC SOCIETY

JOURNAL DE LA SOCIETE DE MUSIQUE AFRICAINE

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AFRICAN MUSIC SOCIETY

President:

Lord Howick of Glendale, G.C.M.G., K.c.v.o.

Vice- Presidents:

H. F. Oppenheimer, Esq.

Colonel Sir Charles Ponsonby, Bart, T.D., D.L.

Hon. Treasurer:

A. P. Domleo, Esq.

Hon. Secretary:

Hugh Tracey, D.Mus. Hon.

Editor:

Andrew Tracey, M.A., Esq.

The Society welcomes applications for Membership from individuals and Associations who are interested in the study of African music and other arts.

Ordinary Membership entails an annual subscription of R4.

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COVER ILLUSTRATION

The Hon. Secretary, African Music Society, P.O. Box 138, Roodepoort, Transvaal, South Africa.

The cover illustration, by Olernara Peters, is a sketch from a series of paintings she is doing of African costumes. The subject is Samson Maluleke, ofDumisa, south east Rhodesia, tuning a drum for the chigubu dance (see the article by Thomas Johnston on p.59.

AFRICAN MUSIC

JOURNAL OF THE AFRICAN MUSIC SOCIETY

JOURNAL DE LA SOCIETE DE MUSIQUE AFRICAINE

Published by

AFRICAN MUSIC SOCIETY P.O.

Box

138,

RooDEPOORT, TRANSVAAL,

SOUTH AFRICA

and printed by

FRmR AND MUNRO (PTY) LTD.

BENROSE, JOHANNESBURG

All rights reserved

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

1.

THE SociAL MECHANICS OF GooD Music Kobla Ladzekpo

2. ToWARDS A NOTATION AND TABLATURE FOR THE KORA Roderic Knight

3. STANDARD DRUM PATTERNS IN NIGERIA Samuel Akpabot

4.

QuESTIONNAIRE D 'ENQUETE SUR LES INSTRUMENTS DE MUSIQUE AFRICAINE TRADITIONELLE • • • . . QuESTIONNAIRE INTO TRADITIONAL AFRICAN MusiCAL INsTRUMENTs (Translation)

Daniel De Troch

5.

THE MusiCAL DIMENSION oF PERCEPTION IN THE UPPER CoNGO

J. F.

Carrington 6. LEs CoRDOPHONES DES LuBA-SHANKADI

J.

S. Laurenty

7.

SHANGANA-TSONGA DRUM AND Bow RHYTHMS Thomas

F. J

ohnston 8. THE NYANGA PANPIPE DANCE

Andrew Tracey

9. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, David Thierman

10. REVIEWS

11.

CoNTRIBUToRs AND CoNTRIBUTIONS

12. AFRICAN Music SociE'l'Y: RECORDS AND BooKS FOR SALE

13. CoRRIGENDA

Ghana.

The Gambia, Senegal, Guinea, Mali,

Port.

Guinea Nigeria

Zaire

Zaire

Mozambique, South Mrica Mozambique

3

page

5

6

23 37

40 43

46

52

59

73 90

95

51,58 72

102

14.

MAP AND ORIGIN OF ARTICLES

Outside Back Cover

The opinions expressed by contributors are personal and are not necessarily those of the African Music Society.