Name: _________________________________________________
World Music
Scholar Guide
South Africa Part 4
Outcomes:
Grammar: Learn basic facts about South Africa
Logic: Learn how to gumboot dance
Bellwork:
Define Terms:
1. Creolization:
2. Sharpeville Massacre:
3. Portamento glides:
4. Re-africanization:
Guided notes
5. The growth of the _________________ just before the apartheid increased
_____________________________ between ethnic groups.
6. African music is__________________. All performers___________________ to the
invisible conductor of the collective.
7. _________ ___________: the first African ___________________ with black south African
performers, musicians and narrative in the 1950’s.
8. South Africans are one of the first countries in the world to run a successful
_________________________ __________________________ .
How Dance and melody shape are related
9. The leading tone “__________ the ________________ back onto the tone center.”
10. This corresponds to concepts of ___________________ and ________________________ .
11. This melodic movement corresponds with the_______________ , dipping and
__________________ the body.
12. During a dissonant note—a ______________ __________ , the body may turn or
______.
13. When returning to the __________ , or __________________ the chord, the body may
be raised.
Active listening #5
Africa
14. Name all the instruments you hear in this track.
15. In which genre would you classify this song?
16. What makes this song sound South African?
Just the facts #5
Africa
17. This song represents the brotherhood many South Africans feel for
____________________-_____________________ and their struggles against racial
oppression.
18. This song is a perfect example of _____________________ Jazz.
CFU: Learn gumboot dance
Characteristics of South African Musical language:
Name three:
A.
B.
C.
Common Beliefs of the Zulu and Tswana peoples
A belief in:
A.
B.
C.
Zulu philosophy
“Man can only become fully human through his relationships with his fellow
men”
Name three
Characteristics of South African Musical language:
A.
B.
C.
CFU: Click!-video
Xhosa is a “click” language, related to the Zulu language.
Three different click sounds are used:
“c” is a soft click.
“q” is a harder click—with the tongue to the sides of the teeth
“x” is like the sound of a galloping horse
CFU: Solfege
Curwen hand
signs
In south africa, choirs sing pieces completely in solfege before adding any words.
Hand signs first
Do Re Mi Re Do
Do Re Mi Fa Mi Re Do
Do Re Mi Fa So Fa Mi Re Do
Skipping
So Mi Mi
So Mi Do
So Mi Do Do Do
So Fa Mi Re Do
Solfege corresponds to written music in the following way:
Do=C
Re=D
Mi=E
Fa=F
So=G
La=A
Ti=B
Translate this music into solfege
19. C D E D C:
20. C D E F G A B C:
21. C C E E G G C:
22. C E D E D C:
Guided notes
23. Musical performance often____________________ , ___________________ , or
___________________ these socio-political changes.
24. The tempo of most South African music is ___________ .
25. Zulu favor types of _______ __________________ regarding syllable length and
placement, often _______________________ certain vowels and stressing syllables
on off-beats.
26. Many Instrumental pieces are transcriptions of ___________ pieces.
Active listening #6
Gumboot video
27. There are 3 types of percussion demonstrated here. They are:
28. There are 4 types of vocalization here. They are:
Just the facts #6
Gumboot video
29. Dancers used ____________ ________ on the bottom of their boots for rattles, or
pebbles in shoe polish tins.
30. The purpose of gumboot dance is to lighten the load of communal
_____________.
CFU: Comparing South African songs to civil rights songs
Name:______________________________________________
Date:________________
Exit Ticket
South Africa Part 3
20 points IP
1. Name two common beliefs of the Zulu and Tswana peoples:
A.
B.
2. How do the Zulu sing words differently than when they speak them?
3. Name two characteristics of South African Musical language:
A.
B.
4. What is re-africanization?