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MR.1970.18.1-A2

Basic facts:

 country   province   region   village   people   group   date   collector 
 Ghana            Akan      1962   Hood Mantle 

Language and title:

original language: Akan

Musical composition:

 type   # performers   instrument (type)   singing voice 
 Solo    1   (single-skin drum)   -    

Characteristics:

general: instrumental
instrumentaal
instrumental
function: poetry
length: unknown

Performers:

unknown

Fragment:

not available online

Remarks:

"Africa - East and West"
A lead drum is beaten in a way that reproduces a famous Akan poem.


Tempo: help

tempo
average184.56
median185.76
minimum146.34
maximum222.22
standaard deviation11.9
regression factor-0.17

Pitch: help

Tessitura

pitch tess

Octave reduced tone scale

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All pitch candidates

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Melodic progress (fragment)

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