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MR.1959.11.4-B4
Basic facts:
country |
province |
region |
village |
people |
group |
date |
collector |
Ivory Coast | | | | Adioukrou | | 1952 | Rouget Gilbert |
Language and title:
original language:
title in original language: Lohou
title in English: Ceremony of the Lohou
Musical composition:
type | # performers | instrument (type) | singing voice |
Group | 2 | (drum) |
- |
Characteristics:
general:
instrumental
function: ritual music
length: unknown
Performers:
unknown
Fragment:
not available online
Remarks:
"Batteries Africaines - Collection du Musée de l'Homme, Afrique, vol. 3"
Rhythms calling for the ceremony of the Lohou. A drummer plays a language based on inflections of human language on two drums set side by side. The lohou is a ritual related to a rite of passage from one age to another among the Adioukrou.
Tempo:
|
average | 147.57 |
median | 150 |
minimum | 117.65 |
maximum | 171.43 |
standaard deviation | 11.96 |
regression factor | -0.21 |
|
Pitch:
Tessitura

Octave reduced tone scale

All pitch candidates

Melodic progress (fragment)