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Shona music is the music of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. There are several different types of traditional Shona music including mbira, singing, hosho and drumming. Very often, this music will be accompanied by dancing, and participation by the audience. In Shona music, there is little distinction between the performer and the audience, both are often actively involved in the music-making, and both are important in the religious ceremonies where Shona Music is often heard. Allegory of Music on the Opéra Garnier Music is an art form that involves organized sounds and silence. ...
Shona (IPA: ) is the name collectively given to several groups of people in Zimbabwe and western Mozambique. ...
Mbira Dzavadzimu in deze (top), Mbira Nyunga Nyunga (bottom), Hosho (bottom left). ...
Harry Belafonte singing, photograph by C. van Vechten Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, which is often contrasted with speech. ...
A pair of hosho. ...
For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ...
For other uses, see Dance (disambiguation). ...
Mbira
- Main article: Mbira
The Mbira is a traditional instrument of the Shona People often used in religious ceremonies. There are several different varieties of Mbira including the Mbira Dzavadzimu and Mbira Nyunga Nyunga. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1722x1660, 639 KB) Summary Author: Alex Weeks Image of an Mbira Dzavadzimu, taken with an Olympus C-770 digital camera on 2005-11-11. ...
ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1722x1660, 639 KB) Summary Author: Alex Weeks Image of an Mbira Dzavadzimu, taken with an Olympus C-770 digital camera on 2005-11-11. ...
Mbira Dzavadzimu in deze (top), Mbira Nyunga Nyunga (bottom), Hosho (bottom left). ...
Mbira Dzavadzimu in deze (top), Mbira Nyunga Nyunga (bottom), Hosho (bottom left). ...
Mbira Dzavadzimu in deze (top), Mbira Nyunga Nyunga (bottom), Hosho (bottom left). ...
Mbira Dzavadzimu in deze (top), Mbira Nyunga Nyunga (bottom), Hosho (bottom left). ...
Shona music is best known as representative of Mbira ("thumb piano") music. The performer of the kushaura (lead mbira part) often acts also as the lead vocalist, selecting a known melody or mbira pattern to accompany selected lyrics, usually a phrase or a few lines of text which are then commented upon improvisationally. The performer of the kutsinira (second mbira part) plays a pattern which interlocks with the kushaura in a way that creates the repeated notes which identify mbira music. The kutsinira part is often the same part as the kushaura, but played a half a beat later. The mbira players are accompanied by another less active singer who plays the hosho (a rattle) and responds to the improvised lyrics of the singer and most importantly embellishes and fills-in the lead vocal melody. (Garfias 1971) Mbira Dzavadzimu in deze (top), Mbira Nyunga Nyunga (bottom), Hosho (bottom left). ...
For the Japanese aircraft carrier see Hosho. ...
Singing
Drumming Drums are always associated with Dance and can be used for various dances.
Types of drums:
-Mhande Drums- 1. Shauro- used for the lead rhythm
2. Tsinhiro- used for the response rhythm -Dinhe Drums- 1. Mhito-used for the lead rhythm 2. Mitumba miviri- used for the response rhythm -Chokoto Drums- (these are two headed) 1. Chimudumbana- small, for lead rhythm 2. Chigubha- big, for response rhythm
Hosho - Main article: Hosho
Shona music is often accompanied by the hosho, a hollowed-out maranka gourd containing hota seeds or other objects that is shaken to generate a sound. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2008x1288, 401 KB) Author: Alex Weeks Image of a pair of Hosho, taken with an Olympus C-770 digital camera on 11 November 2005. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2008x1288, 401 KB) Author: Alex Weeks Image of a pair of Hosho, taken with an Olympus C-770 digital camera on 11 November 2005. ...
For the Japanese aircraft carrier see Hosho. ...
A pair of hosho. ...
Modern Traditional Shona music has been adapted to modern instruments such as electric guitars and western drumsets, for example by musicians such as Thomas Mapfumo, Stella Chiweshe, and Oliver Mtukudzi. This music is also associated with the Chimurenga movement. Thomas Mapfumo is a Zimbabwean musician known as The Lion of Zimbabwe for his immense popularity and for the political influence he wields through his music. ...
Stella Chiweshe (also Stella Rambisai Chiweshe, Stella Rambisai Chiweshe Nekati, or Stella Nekati Chiweshe, b. ...
Oliver Tuku Mtukudzi (born in 1952 in Highfield, Harare) is a Zimbabwean musician, one of the longest-lasting popular performers from that country. ...
Chimurenga is a style of music from Zimbabwe. ...
Shona music in the West Shona music has become popular in the West and even in the East such as Japan. In the United States, Shona music has become popular in Colorado, California, and the Pacific Northwest, largely due to the seeding influence of musicians such as Dumisani Maraire, Ephat Mujuru, and Erica Azim. Dumisani Maraire (1944-1999), known to friends as Dumi, was a master performer of the mbira, a traditional instrument of the Shona ethnic group of Zimbabwe. ...
Ephat Mujuru (1950-2001), a Zimbabwean musician, was one of the 20th centurys finest players of the mbira, a traditional instrument of the Shona ethnic group of Zimbabwe. ...
Erica Azim is one of the leading western authorities on, and practitioners of, Zimbabwean mbira music. ...
Shona music on Marimba Shona marimbas are diatonic and are made with F#'s and without. They are different from other marimbas through their larger keys and resonators beneath the keys (to produce a buzzing sound). The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. ...
Musicians
Zimbabwean also Dumisani Maraire (1944-1999), known to friends as Dumi, was a master performer of the mbira, a traditional instrument of the Shona ethnic group of Zimbabwe. ...
Ephat Mujuru (1950-2001), a Zimbabwean musician, was one of the 20th centurys finest players of the mbira, a traditional instrument of the Shona ethnic group of Zimbabwe. ...
Forward Kwenda is one of the most respected mbira performers in Zimbabwe. ...
Stella Chiweshe (also Stella Rambisai Chiweshe, Stella Rambisai Chiweshe Nekati, or Stella Nekati Chiweshe, b. ...
Chartwell Shorayi Dutiro started playing mbira when he was four at the protected village, Kagande, about two hours drive from Harare where his family was moved by the Salvation Army missionaries during the Chimurenga. ...
Cosmas Magaya Cosmas Magaya is a renowned Zimbabwean mbira player and teacher. ...
Thomas Mapfumo is a Zimbabwean musician known as The Lion of Zimbabwe for his immense popularity and for the political influence he wields through his music. ...
Chimurenga is a style of music from Zimbabwe. ...
Oliver Tuku Mtukudzi (born in 1952 in Highfield, Harare) is a Zimbabwean musician, one of the longest-lasting popular performers from that country. ...
Western Erica Azim is one of the leading western authorities on, and practitioners of, Zimbabwean mbira music. ...
Chris Berry is a master of both mbira (thumb piano) and the ngoma drum, from the Shona people of Zimbabwe and the Congo respectively. ...
See also Chimurenga is a style of music from Zimbabwe. ...
For the Japanese aircraft carrier see Hosho. ...
The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. ...
Mbira Dzavadzimu in deze (top), Mbira Nyunga Nyunga (bottom), Hosho (bottom left). ...
An African woman, wearing native garments, performs during a visit from participants in the West Africa Training Cruise 1983. ...
Zimbabwean music includes folk and pop styles, much of it based on the well-known instrument the mbira. ...
Shona (or ChiShona) is a native language of Zimbabwe; the term is also used to identify those Kintu speaking peoples in Southern Africa who speak one of the Shona languages. ...
Shona (IPA: ) is the name collectively given to several groups of people in Zimbabwe and western Mozambique. ...
Bantu is a language family that belongs to the Niger-Congo group. ...
Recordings - Nonesuch Explorer Series 79703-2, Zimbabwe: The African Mbira: Music of the Shona People (2002). Liner notes by Robert Garfias (1971).
- Nonesuch Explorer Series 79704 Zimbabwe: The Soul of Mbira: Traditions of the Shona People (1973). Produced by Paul Berliner
- Musical instruments 2: (LP) Reeds (Mbira). (1972) The Music of Africa series. 1 LP disc. 33 1/3 rpm. mono. 12 in. Recorded by Hugh Tracey. Kaleidophone, KMA 2.
- Mbira Music of Rhodesia, Performed by Abram Dumisani Maraire. (1972). Seattle: University of Washington Press, Ethnic Music Series. Garfias, R. (Ed.). 1 LP disc. 33 1/3 rpm. mono. 12 in. UWP-1001. This disc features Maraire exclusively on Nyunga Nyunga mbira. A 12-page booklet by Maraire is included, describing the background, composition, and performance of nyunga-nyunga mbira music.
Nonesuch Records is currently allied with Warner Bros. ...
Paul Berliner is an important twentieth century ethnomusicologist, best known for specializing in African Music as well as Jazz and other improvizational systems. ...
Hugh Tracey was an important twentieth century ethnomusicologist. ...
Dumisani Maraire (1944-1999), known to friends as Dumi, was a master performer of the mbira, a traditional instrument of the Shona ethnic group of Zimbabwe. ...
Further reading - Berliner, Paul (1981). The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-04268-9.
- Tracey, Andrew. (1970). How to play the mbira (dza vadzimu). Roodepoort, Transvaal, South Africa: International Library of African Music.
- Tracey, Hugh. (1961). The evolution of African music and its function in the present day. Johannesburg: Institute for the Study of Man in Africa.
- Tracey, Hugh. (1969). The Mbira class of African Instruments in Rhodesia (1932). African Music Society Journal, 4:3, 78-95.
Paul Berliner is an important twentieth century ethnomusicologist, best known for specializing in African Music as well as Jazz and other improvizational systems. ...
Hugh Tracey was an important twentieth century ethnomusicologist. ...
Hugh Tracey was an important twentieth century ethnomusicologist. ...
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