Talking Drums is a guitar duo constructed using drumming patterns from West Africa. Each player has their own series of independent time signatures and bar lines that very occasionally coincide. The impetus for the piece came from the Hibernian Guitar Duo’s commissioning project that encourages the incorporation of ceremonial Batá drumming techniques into new works by contemporary composers. Batá drumming ensembles participate in religious ceremonies conducted by the Yoruba people, who mainly reside around the mouth of the river Niger (Nigeria, Benin, and Ghana).2 guitar
The bata is one of the most important and representative percussion traditions of the people in sout...
Among the Yoruba people of southwest Nigeria, dancers have the ability to relate not only to music a...
The following folio examines methods of improvised music performance and composition that utilize rh...
The goblet shaped hand drum from West Africa called djembé has seen significant growth in performanc...
The most common type of Talking Drum among the Yoruba is called “Dundun” (see Plate I). Europeans so...
All the drums found in Nigeria can be broadly grouped under five headings: (1) wooden drum (2) pot d...
Yoruba drummers are prolific in rhythmic creation and interpretation especially on dùndún ensemble. ...
Most people who read stories about Africa and less advanced students of African history (among which...
Yorùbá dùndún drumming is an oral tradition which allows for manipulation of gliding pitch contours ...
The Talking Drum is an important instrument of communication in Traditional African society which se...
Abstract It is an established fact that indigenous knowledge precedes colonization and any creativi...
The dùndún, or "talking drum," of southwestern Nigeria is a versatile speech surrogate used to repro...
The traditional Yoruba talking drums' of Nigeria provided inspiration for a unique approach to spee...
Group drumming has been used to promote community and healing for millennia. This workshop will exp...
Talking drums have been a unique means of information dissemination in the rural areas of Africa. Th...
The bata is one of the most important and representative percussion traditions of the people in sout...
Among the Yoruba people of southwest Nigeria, dancers have the ability to relate not only to music a...
The following folio examines methods of improvised music performance and composition that utilize rh...
The goblet shaped hand drum from West Africa called djembé has seen significant growth in performanc...
The most common type of Talking Drum among the Yoruba is called “Dundun” (see Plate I). Europeans so...
All the drums found in Nigeria can be broadly grouped under five headings: (1) wooden drum (2) pot d...
Yoruba drummers are prolific in rhythmic creation and interpretation especially on dùndún ensemble. ...
Most people who read stories about Africa and less advanced students of African history (among which...
Yorùbá dùndún drumming is an oral tradition which allows for manipulation of gliding pitch contours ...
The Talking Drum is an important instrument of communication in Traditional African society which se...
Abstract It is an established fact that indigenous knowledge precedes colonization and any creativi...
The dùndún, or "talking drum," of southwestern Nigeria is a versatile speech surrogate used to repro...
The traditional Yoruba talking drums' of Nigeria provided inspiration for a unique approach to spee...
Group drumming has been used to promote community and healing for millennia. This workshop will exp...
Talking drums have been a unique means of information dissemination in the rural areas of Africa. Th...
The bata is one of the most important and representative percussion traditions of the people in sout...
Among the Yoruba people of southwest Nigeria, dancers have the ability to relate not only to music a...
The following folio examines methods of improvised music performance and composition that utilize rh...