Persia Part 2

South africaPart 4Bellwork: Define TermsCreolization: As a result of colonization there was a mixture between people of indigenous, African, and European descent.Sharpeville Massacre: 60 black Africans murdered while protesting Apartheid legislation.

Portamento glides: when the vocalist falls or slides to the lower pitch on sustained tones.

Re-africanization: to give control of the government back to the Africans; to re-establish African culture.

AnnouncementsTest on South Africa Tuesday May 6th.

Reading Outline #23 due this Thursday, May 1st.

OutcomesScholars Will:

Grammar: Learn basic facts about South African music

Logic: Learn how to gumboot dance

Sharpeville massacre

Guided notesThe growth of the economy just before the apartheid increased communication between ethnic groups

African music is social. All performers submit to the invisible conductor of the collective.

King Kong: the first African Musical with black south African performers, musicians and narrative 1950s

South Africans are one of the first countries in the world to run a successful multicultural democrary

How Dance and melody shape are relatedLeading tone lifts the melody back onto the tone center.

This corresponds to concepts of dissonance and resolution.

This melodic movement corresponds with the raising, dipping and turning the body.

During a dissonant notea leading tone, the body may turn or dip.When returning to the tonic, or resolving the chord, the body may be raised.Active listening #5AfricaName all the instruments you hear in this track.

In which genre would you classify this song?

What makes this song sound South African?Just the facts #5AfricaThis song represents the brotherhood many South Africans feel for African-Americans and their struggles against racial oppression.

This song is a perfect example of Capetown Jazz.

This song speaks of a longing for Africa and a vision for a new nation. It is prophetic in nature, for when this song was written in the 1980s there was little hope for change or a bright future.The vocalist is Sathima Bea Benjamin

Cfu: learn gumboot dance

Instructional videos

Step #1Hit 1 2 3 4Then do that 3 timesHit your knee with your right hand, step first with your right foot.

Note: Hits are very quick.

Step #2Hit both hands on each thigh, then stampHit stamp Hit stamp 3 4Do this step 3 timesStep #3Turn to your right in a circle: I flyHit Right Left Hit right left hit right clap left

Then turn the other way

Hit right left Hit right left hit right clap left Characteristics of South African Musical language: name threeNon-verbal utterancesTonal LanguageWords articulate life experience

Common Beliefs of the Zulu and Tswana peoples A belief in:

the continuing existence between the living and the dead

HealingProphecy

Zulu philosophyMan can only become fully human through his relationships with his fellow men

Name threeCharacteristics of South African Musical language:Non-verbal utterancesTonal LanguageWords articulate life experience

CFU: Click!-videoXhosa is a click language, related to the Zulu language.

Three different click sounds are used:1. c is a soft click.

2. q is a harder clickwith the tongue to the sides of the teeth

3. x is like the sound of a galloping horse

CFU: SolfegeCurwen handsignsIn south africa,choirs singpieces completelyin solfege before adding anywords.

20Signing simple solfege Warm-up to sing:Breathing, Buzz, VowelsHand signs first

1. Do Re Mi Re Do

2. Do Re Mi Fa Mi Re Do

3. Do Re Mi Fa So Fa Mi Re DoSkipping1. So Mi Mi

2. So Mi Do

3. So Mi Do Do Do

4. So Fa Mi Re Do

Solfege and musicSolfege corresponds to written music in the following way:Do=CRe=DMi=EFa=FSo=GLa=ATi=BTranslate this music into solfeggeC D E D CC D E F G A B C C C E E G G CC E D E D CGuided notesMusical performance often reflected, resisted, or predicted these socio-political changes.

The tempo of most South African music is slow.

Zulu favor types of word distortion regarding syllable length and placement, often elongating certain vowels and stressing syllables on off-beats.

Many Instrumental pieces are transcriptions of vocal pieces.

Active listening #6Gumboot videoThere are 3 types of percussion demonstrated here. They are:

There are 4 types of vocalization here. They are:Just the facts #6gumboot videoDancers used bottle caps on the bottom of their boots for rattles, or pebbles in shoe polish tins.

The purpose of gumboot dance is to lighten the load of communal labor. Exit TicketName two common beliefs of the Zulu and Tswana peoples:

How do the Zulu sing words differently than when they speak them?

Name two characteristics of South African Musical language: What is re-africanization?