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Mohambi xylophone music of the Shangana-Tsonga
African Music: Journal of the African Music Society, 1973The Tsonga of Mozambique and South Africa are located between the Venda in the northwest and the Chopi in the southeast. While the large Venda xylophones have all but disappeared in the last forty years, Chopi xylophone playing is widely practised and the Chopi orchestras are famous both in the homeland and in the Johannesburg gold-mine compounds.
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The Cultural Role of Tsonga Beer-Drink Music
Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, 1973Of seven distinct bodies of vocal music and one body of instrumental music recognized and separately classified by the Tsonga of Mozambique and the Northern Transvaal, beer-drink music is the most often performed and comprises about 40% of the total folksong repertoire of about five hundred items (Figure 1). The other musical styles are exorcism music,
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How universal are children's verse rhythms?: Some Tsonga evidence
South African Journal of African Languages, 1990Among the features claimed to be universal in the rhythmical patterning of children's verse, are the four-beat verse line and the four verse line stanza. These claims are described and discussed within the context of African oral poetry in general and of Tsonga children's verse in particular.
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Rhythmical patterning of Tsonga children's traditional oral poetry
South African Journal of African Languages, 1991The rhythmical nature of oral performance in Africa, for many genres, has often been noted. The process of transcribing a ‘simple’ genre like children's traditional poetry from a visual recording of performance, was described in a previous article. The design of a symbolic representation of the children's body movements and its incorporation within the
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