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Title:Court music in Uganda: recordings of xylophone compositions preserved in the phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian academy of sciences, Vienna
Author:Kubik, G.
Year:1968
Periodical:Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and Ethnological Research
Issue:10
Pages:41-51
Language:English
Geographic term:Uganda
Subject:music
Abstract:Supplements the A.'s previous article 'Aufnahme und Erforschung der Hofmusik in Uganda' (Bull. Int. Comm. Urgent Anthr. & Ethn. Res., 1967, 9, p. 19-22). The present paper summarizes what the author has been able to record of xylophone music. Transcriptions are presented of musical pieces that had been played within the enclosure of the Babaka's court: 1. Amadinda transcriptions - 2. Akadinda transcriptions. Indicated are the notations of the twelve-keyed amadinda and of the seventeen-keyed akadinda (both transposed to C).
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