MAPEH II, Music of Africa

Explanation:

Music is an integral part of the lives of the African people. To every African, music is closely related to every aspect of their lives. It goes much deeper than just singing songs for rituals or special ceremonies. African music is functional. It is used for worship, courtship, easing up hardwork and entertainment. And the most important it is used as a means of communication. It is basically an expression of life through sound.

Besides vocalisation, which uses various techniques such as complex hard melisma and yodel, a wide array of musical instruments are used. African musical instruments include a wide range of drums, slit gongs, rattles and double bells, different types of harps, and harp-like instruments such as the Kora and the ngoni, as well as fiddles, many kinds of xylophone and lamellophone such as the mbira, and different types of wind instrument like flutes and trumpets. Additionally, string instruments are also used, with the lute-like oudand Ngoni serving as musical accompaniment in some areas.

There are five groups of sub-Saharan African musical instruments: membranophones, chordophones, aerophones, idiophones, and percussion. Membranophones are the drums, including kettles, clay pots, and barrels. Chordophones are stringed instruments like harps and fiddles. Aerophones are another name for wind instruments. These can include flutes and trumpets, similar to the instruments you hear in American music. Idiophones are rattles and shakers, while percussion can be sounds like foot-stomping and hand-clapping.[11] Many of the wooden instruments have shapes or pictures carved out into them to represent ancestry. Some are decorated with feathers or beads.

The traditional music of Africa, given the vastness of the continent, is historically ancient, rich and diverse, with different regions and nations of Africa having many distinct musical traditions. Music in Africa is very important when it comes to religion. Songs and music are used in rituals and religious ceremonies, to pass down stories from generation to generation, as well as to sing and dance to.

Traditional music in most of the continent is passed down orally (or aurally) and is not written. In Sub-Saharan African music traditions, it frequently relies on percussion instruments of every variety, including xylophones, djembes, drums, and tone-producing instruments such as the mbira or "thumb piano."

The music and dance of the African diaspora, formed to varying degrees on African musical traditions, include American music and many Caribbean genres, such as soca, calypso(see kaiso) and zouk. Latin American music genres such as the rumba, conga, bomba, cumbia, salsa and samba were founded on the music of enslaved Africans, and have in turn influenced African popular music.[1]

 griot

is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, or musician. The griot is a repository of oral tradition and is often seen as a leader due to his or her position as an advisor to royal personages. As a result of the former of these two functions, he or she is sometimes called a bard.

That is just on example of the Music in Africa. And it shows that song that their songs, music are really alive.

Now I will teach you how to sing this song and we will use our hands in order to make it alive.

                                                       "KYE KYE KULE"

Kye Kye Kule Kye Kye Kule Kye Kye Ko-fi Nsa Kye Kye Ko-fi Nsa

Ko-fi sa langga Ko-fi sa langga Ke-te Kyi langga Ke-te Kyi langga

Kum-a-dende Kum-a-dende Kum-aden-de HEY!

that is the most popular music in africa this music is very sacred to them . they say that if you are going to sing this song you will be blessed by gods of africans.