African music is the music of Africans who live in a large region of 50
nations, each with a special culture, history and language, South of
Sahara. Zulu musical instruments are part of this multilingual culture.
African music has some distinct characteristics: the use of repetition
is one of them. Another important characteristic is the polyphony; this
is the combination of different musical parts played simultaneously.
The
history is marked by the awesome military strategies of the Zulu King
Shaka. The King's and his warriors' campaign of expansion is well known
in world history. Zulu rich traditional culture includes songs, dances
and colorful rituals, Zulu musical instruments are spectacular and
original. A variety of Zulu musical instruments are well known, s well
as the traditional Mine dance; Zulus have longtime used their music as a
cry for freedom.
African music is really rich in modes of
expression: drum ensembles are using Zulu musical instruments from the
percussion family. Each drummer uses special methods to produce sounds
to distinguish his drum from the others. Iron bells are very popular
Zulu musical instruments; they are used to produce a repeated sound to
help the drummers to play at the correct time.
Zulu musical instruments, rare and very special
The
akadinda is a king of xylophone; two groups of African musicians are
playing simultaneously. The first group is playing repeatedly the same
pattern; the second group plays to fill in the missing sounds. Groups of
Zulu musicians play also using flutes, trumpets or xylophones. Each
player plays a single note in a strange rotation with the other players.
The result is a polyphonic piece, characteristic to African music.
Musical
practices of South African people were observed from many years; Zulu
musical instruments are obsolete. Venda mbila is an old Zulu musical
instrument; it is not used anymore. Reed flutes, contrary, are still
very popular. The influence of foreign cultures and civilizations causes
many of old Zulu musical instruments to become obsolete.
Musical
instruments such as tsonga - a horn, ingungu - a friction drum, nkoka -
a drum, pedi - a flute, venda - musical bow and stick, deze and demba -
thumb piano and resonatos, umfece - ankle rattles are almost obsolete.
To
preserve this awesome heritage of Zulu musical instruments, the
necessary information was entered into a database; each Zulu musical
instrument was digitally photographed to preserve all information about
it.
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