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Drums and dance are often linked, and the tradition of royal talking drums fontomfrom (distinct from the northern talking drum) means music is widely used for communication of both tangible and esoteric topics. The most well known of southern Ghanaian drum traditions is the kete and adowa drum and bell ensembles.
The Pan-African Orchestra (PAO) is an orchestra using indigenous African traditions and instruments. It was founded as a 48-piece ensemble [ 1 ] in 1988 in Accra , Ghana , by Nana Danso Abiam . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Abiam died in a motor accident in Accra on 24 December 2014, in the early hours following his 61st birthday.
Some African drums can even imitate consonants by hitting the drum with a stick or hand at different angles and with different parts of the stick or hand. The Ewe also play a pair of two drums called atumpan (pronounced ah-toom-pahn), which are used all over Ghana as talking drums. The atumpan player stands up and plays the drum with two sticks ...
Nketia, K. Aduonum, Akin Euba are among those who have written for atenteben and other African and/or Western instruments. In 1979, the neo-traditional art music composer and founder of the Pan African Orchestra of Ghana, Nana Danso Abiam (b. 1953) introduced chromaticism and atonality in atenteben music with a new fingering mechanism that he ...
Gungon – Bass snare drum of the Lunsi ensemble. Of northern origin, it is played throughout Ghana by various groups, known by southern groups as brekete. Related to the Dunun drums of other West African peoples. Gyil – large resonant Xylophones, related to the Balafon. Mbira – small pentatonic thumb piano. Koloko – Varieties of Sahelian ...
Ewe music is the music of the Ewe people of Togo, Ghana, and Benin, West Africa. Instrumentation is primarily percussive and rhythmically the music features great metrical complexity. Its highest form is in dance music including a drum orchestra, but there are also work (e.g. the fishing songs of the Anlo migrants [1]), play, and other songs.
Kpanlogo (pronounced "PAHN-loh-goh"), traditionally named Tswreshi or Treshi is a type of barrel drum that is associated with Kpanlogo music, and is usually played with two hands. The drum originates from the Ga people of the Greater Accra Region in Ghana, West Africa. Kpanlogo is the name of a rhythm played on the tswreshi.
National Symphony Orchestra Ghana; P. Pan-African Orchestra This page was last edited on 27 April 2020, at 00:46 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...