For Grade 10 Music Elem/Hs department of the University of Manila. This powerpoint is about the influence of African music to the modern music of African-Americans.

1. African Music

2. • We can easily identify African music if it has yodeling activity
and an upbeat music with the accompaniment of a drum
instrument. Music plays significant purpose to the culture and
traditions of the Africans. Music celebrates and accompanies
every activity: birth, christening, thanksgiving, harvesting crops,
wedding rites, death and mourning, and other gathering of
religious and social activity.
AFRICAN MUSIC

4. GENERAL
CHARACTERISTICS OF
AFRICAN MUSIC

5. • One of the major characteristics of African melodies is
the use of ostinato, a repeated pattern. Pattern may be
short or long phrases depending on the choice of the
musicians and the purpose in the composition.
1. MELODY

7. • If harmony is one major characteristic in European
music, it is rhythm that describes African music.
Upbeat rhythm can be easily identified in African
music through percussion instruments or using
human body movements. The Africans are
musically gifted in collaborating polyrhythm in
their music.
2. RHYTHM

9. • It is a dynamic rhythm, first appeared in an African
state of Pernambuco. The Maracatu groups were
called nacao which means nation, who paraded
with a large drumming ensemble and accompanied
by a singer, chorus and dancers
3. MARACATU

11. AFRICANVOCAL
FORMS

12. • It is a music genre and musical form which was originated
in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s by
African-Americans from roots in African musical traditions,
African-American work songs, and spiritualslues
incorporated spirituals, work songs, fie. Bld hollers, shouts,
chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.
1. BLUES

14. • It is a popular music genre that originated in the African American
community throughout the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s. It
combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues
and jazz. Soul music became popular for dancing and listening in the
United States, where record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax
were influential during the Civil Rights Movement. Soul also became
popular around the world, directly influencing rock music and the music
of Africa.
2. SOUL

16. • It is a succession of two distinct phrases usually written in different
parts of the music, where the second phrase is heard as a direct
commentary on or in response to the first. It corresponds to the call-
and-response pattern in human communication and is found as a basic
element of musical form, such as verse-chorus form, in many traditions.
In Sub-Saharan African cultures, call and response is a pervasive pattern
of democratic participation—in public gatherings the discussion of civic
affairs, in religious rituals, as well as in vocal and instrumental musical
expression.
3. CALL AND RESPONSE

18. • It is a genre of songs originating in the United States
and created by African Americans. Spirituals were
originally an oral tradition that imparted Christian
values while also describing the hardships of slavery.
Although spirituals were originally unaccompanied
monophonic songs, they developed into harmonized
choral arrangements.
4. SPIRITUAL