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	Traditional Pygmy Music of the Central African Republic - Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
		Traditional Pygmy Music of the Central African Republic
		Among the Pygmy peoples found in the Central African Republic, music is closely associated with social and religious life.
		Some distinct features of Pygmy singing and musical arrangement are heard here, for example, repetition of melodic patterns, the mixing of various vocal timbres (tone color) within a chorus, and hocketing (notes sounded by different individuals that collectively make up a complex melody).
	encarta.msn.com /media_461564890_761574398_-1_1/Traditional_Pygmy_Music_of_the_Central_African_Republic.html (165 words)

	Pygmy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pygmies are smaller because in their early teens they do not experience the growth spurt normal in most other humans.
		The African Pygmies are particularly known for their vocal music, characterised by dense polyphony, group performance and improvisation.
		The homes of Pygmies of the Republic of the Congo, precisely between the towns of Ouesso and Pokola, along the Sangha River, are made of sticks and leaves; they are very small and equipped with the basics item such as bed and shelves; all made in wood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pygmy (758 words)

	Traditional Pygmy Music of the Congo - Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
		The original inhabitants of the Ituri Forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are the Bambuti Pygmies.
		Vocal music among the Pygmies is rich in polyphonic harmony and intricate texture.
		The choral music is built up from continuously varied repetitions of a short basic pattern that takes shape as different voices enter and fill out the texture.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461563850_761561261_-1_1/Traditional_Pygmy_Music_of_the_Congo.html (153 words)

	Baka Pygmies - Music and musical instruments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The music and the dances are among the most important and essential aspects of the Baka culture.
		In fact, the music is present in almost all Pygmies' life moments, from healing to initiation rituals, from traditional tales to group games, from hunting propitiating songs to entertainment moments.
		The musical bow, made and played exclusively by women, flutes and floor standing musical bows are instruments probably typical of the pygmean music culture.
	www.pygmies.info /music.html (226 words)

	Pygmy music: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		In music a passacaglia (french: passacaille, spanish: passacalle or pasacalle) is a musical form and the corresponding court dance....
		Ethnomusicology (from the greek ethnos = nation and mousike = music), formerly comparative musicology, is the study of music in its cultural context,...
		In music hocket is the rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitch (music)pitches, or chords....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/py/pygmy_music.htm (1324 words)

	Pygmy - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Pygmy, human sub-population in which an average adult stature of less than about 152 cm (60 in) is an inherited trait.
		Pygmy Possum, common name for members of a family of mouse-sized marsupials native to New Guinea, Australia, and Tasmania.
		Bonobo, also known as pygmy chimpanzee, species of chimpanzee found only in a small region of thick jungle in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Pygmy.html (143 words)

	Untitled Document
		Kete, the music of the royal courts of the Asante, consists of a drum ensemble that may be preceded by a vocal chorus and flute ensemble.
		The music of the Builsa belongs to Kasena-Nankani sub-family of the Voltaic cluster.
		Unaided by any form of written music, Chopi musicians regularly compose new songs and melodies for their dances until, as with Katini, at least a hundred or more compositions stand to their credit, the older ones being discarded and forgotten as they are replaced by the new.
	www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu /courses/spring/2006/236a/listening_notes.htm (11911 words)

	About African Music
		For example, in the mbira music of the Shona people of Zimbabwe, a repeated pattern is established by the interaction of various parts, and the musician develops an improvisation out of this core pattern.
		Music in African societies is a medium for the transmission of knowledge and values and for celebrating communal and personal events.
		The pygmy societies of the central rain forest use singing and vocal cries to coordinate during hunting.
	www.afgen.com /african_music.html (568 words)

	Reviews for Pygmy - SoundClick Music
		Kris, Pygmy's lefty guitarist, wore a manic, glazed-over stare that became positively feral as several of his bandmates let their shoes fly off their feet into the ceiling or against the walls, and singer Edward Adames dived off the stage to feign death on the floor for a few minutes.
		God dammit...saying Pygmy is quite possibly one of the most creative bands I've ever heard and that they are undeniably the best live band I've ever seen is a friggin' understatement when you're dealing with these guys.
		No mere fashion victims, though, Pygmy is best-known for performances so energetic that band members (and their shoes) separate from the stage like fur flying in a cat fight, feet rarely touching floors.
	www.soundclick.com /bands/reviews.cfm?bandid=59463 (957 words)

	MTO 6.1: Vetter, Review of Kisliuk
		Rather, she treats music as one form of expressive culture that is combined with others in performance events, of which there are many types.
		This approach to musical representation selected by the author makes sense given the nature of the music itself; performances of "pieces" are unbelievably organic and anything but predetermined.
		With the exception of two commercially recorded selections of non-pygmy popular music, the recordings are in situ documents of performance events that start and stop unexpectedly and that include some extraneous sounds.
	mto.societymusictheory.org /issues/mto.00.6.1/mto.00.6.1.vetter.html (1408 words)

	Pygmy Summary
		Pygmies are smaller because in their early teens they do not experience the growth spurt normal in most other humans.
		The African Pygmies are particularly known for their vocal music, characterised by dense polyphony, group performance and improvisation.
		The homes of Pygmies of the Republic of the Congo, precisely between the towns of Ouesso and Pokola, along the Sangha River, are made of sticks and leaves; they are very small and equipped with the basic items such as a bed and shelves, which are all made from wood.
	www.bookrags.com /Pygmy (2197 words)

	ipedia.com: Pygmy Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		In an anthropological context, a Pygmy is specifically a member of one of the hunter-gatherer peoples living in equatorial rainforests characterised by their short height (below one and a half metres on average).
		Pygmies are found throughout central Africa, with smaller numbers in south-east Asia.
		Simha Arom says that the level of polyphonic complexity of Pygmy music was reached in Europe in the 14th century, yet Pygmy culture is unwritten and ancient, some Pygmy groups being the first known cultures in some areas of Africa.
	www.ipedia.com /pygmy.html (408 words)

	Improvisation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		This term is usually used in the context of music, theater or dance.
		In music, jazz and Bluegrass are well-known for using improvisation.
		It features in many kinds of traditional music, including flamenco, Carnatic music, Pygmy and other Africa n music, and was once an important element in classical music (see cadenza and figured bass).
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Improvisation.html (914 words)

	20b listening examples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The musical excerpt accompanies the so-called horon, a typical dance of the Turkish fisherman from the eastern shore of the Black Sea.
		Note the exuberant tempo of the music, the relative complexity of the meter and the accentuation, and the peculiar texture created by the frequent use of parallel fourths on the strings of the kemence.
		Kete, the music of the royal courts of the Asante, consists of a drum ensemble which may be preceded by a vocal chorus and flute ensemble.
	www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu /courses/20b/listening.htm (11720 words)

	African Tribes - Pygmies People
		Pygmy Music The original inhabitants of the Ituri Forest of Zaire are the Bambuti Pygmies.Traditional music among the Pygmies is vocal and rich in polyphonic harmony.
		Pygmies are hunters and gatherers, and Pygmy songs describe life, hunting, and survival.
		Pygmy Music is perhaps best described as bursts of harmonic yoldeling, intertwining in a dynamic, rhythmic fashion.
	www.africaguide.com /culture/tribes/pygmies.htm (622 words)

	RFI Musique - - Africa - Music from the Cameroonian rain forest
		Secondly, it showcases the music of the Baka Gbine Orchestra, a group of Pygmy musicians - and this is something of a rare event in itself.
		Pygmies are rarely ever allowed to speak out and express an opinion, let alone get together behind a microphone.
		Martin soon came to realise that "the soft, syncopated rhythms of Baka music, were a perfect binding agent to mix musical elements from different origins together." And he began recording their sessions on a basic hand-held tape recorder thinking this would prove to be a good source of inspiration at a later date.
	www.rfimusique.com /musiqueen/articles/076/article_7725.asp (1000 words)

	Search Results :: calabashmusic.com
		Najma brings Indian music to new heights with her own dynamic fusion of Ghazals (traditional romantic songs with poetic lyrics) and Western...
		Sevara Nazarkhan, a twenty-six-year-old, Uzbek singer, songwriter and musician, is a direct descendent of the legacy of a lone woman singing and accompanying herself on a...
		Katia Guerreiro proves with her debut CD that she is already part of the top league of Fado, and of European roots music in...
	search.calabashmusic.com /world?keys=salmaso&x=0&y=0 (444 words)

	classical music - andante - pierre-laurent aimard
		I mean I loved his music, I knew his music and played it as of member of Intercontemporain, but he did not compose much for the piano until the 1980s.
		I started playing it during that period, and his music became some of the most important in my life because of its significance: so intense, so dense, so original, so fresh, so independent and creative, and also so deep — I mean altogether very tragic and funny.
		Ligeti was the first composer to be in contact with this music, to study it and to be influenced by it.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=16063 (2035 words)

	Press: Cultural Extinction, Digital Preservation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Herskovits recorded community music events in a small rural town, documenting on primitive acetates the old music styles that still were commonly performed 60 years ago.
		Yet the music is fascinating, much of it so closely related to its African antecedents that the days of slavery seem not so remote.
		Pygmy music is the most sublime on Earth, and there is good reason that samples of it are being injected into countless pop music mixes.
	www.anchoragepress.com /archives/document9bc4.html (833 words)

	A Sweet Lullaby For World Music
		The binary reproduced by the world music concept thus participated in reinscribing the separation of musicology, constructed as the historical and analytic study of Western European art musics, from ethnomusicology, constructed by default as the cultural and contextual study of musics of non-Europeans, European peasants, and marginalized ethnic or racial minorities.
		This prayer-like "Pygmy Lullaby" was on my mind when I went to a music globalization seminar in Norway in June 1998 to discuss my research on "pygmy pop," the history of jazz, rock, and avant-garde appropriations and extensions of musics from Central Africa's rainforest peoples (Feld 1996).
		The inability of pop music "royalty" to examine their privilege (Lipsitz 1994, 63), and their lack of reflexivity about how those being curated might see and hear it all quite differently, is a stunning act of narcissism for an industry so invested in a democratic image of collaboration.
	www.deepforestmusic.com /dfpress_00-00-00sweetlullabyforworld.htm (8359 words)

	UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World: Central African Republic
		An unique recording of the forest drum which is used as a bush " telephone ", the famous polyphonic sounds of the Pygmies and, most notable of all, the polyphony of the horn and whistle bands.
		Since our rediscovery of their music, the modernism of their art of counterpoint, polyphony and polyrhythmic sound never ceased to astonish us.
		An authoritative explanation of this art has been given by Simha Arom in his works and on this CD with its eminently pedagogical programme: the examples are provided in turn by horn, flute, whistle and voice ensembles.
	www.unesco.org /culture/cdmusic/html_eng/caf.shtml (190 words)

	pygmy - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Pygmy, human subpopulation in which an average stature of less than 152 cm (60 in) is an inherited trait.
		Bonobo, species of chimpanzee found only in a small region of thick jungle in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in central Africa.
		Pygmy Possum, common name for members of a family of mouse-sized marsupials native to New Guinea, Australia, and Tasmania.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /pygmy.html (109 words)

	African Music - music from all over Africa
		Music is an integral part of African life, society and culture.
		From the vibrant, complex, vocal-based music of South Africa, and the globally acclaimed superstars from Senegal and Gambia, to the irresistible dance music of Congolese soukous, this is an essential African collection.
		World Music Network's second album made in association with the major international charity Oxfam delves into the enduring and diverse musical landscape of Africa with contemporary and classic tracks from across the continent.
	www.africaguide.com /shop/music.htm (3030 words)

	»»New Age Music Reviews««
		This music is rich and is not like much of the "new age" music that is so easy to "get" and catchy.
		The music is easily felt vibrating in the chakra centers and energies and emotions can be felt shifting and changing with each piece.
		The music is gentle and has a sort of healing affect, even the first time you listen to it.
	www.megamusicreviews.com /New_Age/New_Age_54.html (2988 words)

	The Stranger \| Seattle \| Music \| Feature \| The Rebirth of Slick
		The intriguing headliner is the vocal group Zap Mama, veterans of Bumbershoot and darlings of Continental Europe and Africa.
		They earn the rare "Euro-Pygmy" badge because the leader, Marie Daulne, is half Belgian and half African, and while not being a Pygmy herself, she does have a wild story about being stashed by Pygmies during the Zairian revolution of 1960.
		But Pygmy music is just the beginning -- the four female vocalists of Zap Mama cook with everything from En Vogue R&B to French rap to Arabic laments.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=2418 (369 words)

	Michael C. Wittmann Album Reviews, E to L
		There's been an amazing amount of pygmy music released into the world's record bins lately, from the processed Baka Beyond (which is western music with a thin overlay of pygmy rhythm, a cheap and silly abuse of music....) to this.
		The mood of the music is purely exuberant and fun, and this album avoids too much of the truly cheezy aspects that happen too often in shameless pop music.
		With AAK on sarode (a stringed instrument) and female vocals, the sound is calm and meditative, and the music is traditional Indian music from the 16th to 18th centuries.
	perlnet.umephy.maine.edu /bio/wittmann/personal/music/rev_el.htm (2479 words)

	pygmy possum - Music For The Healing Arts, CD
		A musical journey into healing - specifically created for tai chi, reiki, massage, yoga, meditation and other healing arts.
		The soothing and relaxing music is continuous and uninterrupted for 70 minutes; making it an ideal complement for healing sessions, as well as creating a peaceful atmosphere in the home.
		This warm and compelling piece of music has been composed in the key of F major, known for its relaxing effect on the body and mind.
	www.pygmypossum.com.au /products/view/item.html?id=465 (361 words)

	Baka Pygmies
		Within the Baka Pygmy culture, hunting is one of the most important activities, not only for its role in providing food (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon live mainly by gathering and fishing), but above all for the symbolic meanings and the prestige traditionally attached to it...
		The music is present in almost all Pygmies' life moments, from healing to initiation rituals, from traditional tales to group games like water drums, from hunting propitiating songs to entertainment moments.
		Presents also the rite of initiation of Baka Pygmies, attended by the Italian anthropologist Mauro Campagnoli, videos and photos of Pygmies during their daily and ritual life in the equatorial forest, a fieldwork photo gallery, and examples of pygmy music.
	www.pygmies.info (1594 words)

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