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Music of the Gold Coast
Initiation a la musique Congolaise
Bamboo pipes of the Batetela children
The role of the drummer in Akan society
Notes on an idiophone used in Kabile initiation rites by the Mbae
The talking drums of the Yoruba
The music of Tiv
The Lukumbi: a six-toned slit drum of the Batetela
Eight flute tunes from Butembo, east Belgian Congo: an analysis in two parts, musical and physical: Part 1
The Shantu music of the Harims of Nigeria
Some notes on a theory of African rhythm advanced by Erich von Hornbostel
The discovery of multiple rock gongs in Nigeria
Individual names given to talking-gongs in the Yalemba area of Belgian Congo
An African orchestra in Ghana
The Begu Zulu vertical flute
Organisation of music in Adangme society
African musical instruments in Kenya
Folklore activities of the Musep do Dundo
More Kenya musical instruments
The Aku-Ahwa and Aku-Maga post-burial rites of the Jukun peoples of northern Nigeria
"African music", a lecture given at Natal University
Problems of pitch, pattern and harmony in the ocarina music of the Venda
Indonesia and Africa: the xylophone as a culture-indicator
Employments of the "standard pattern" in Yoruba music
The structure of Kiganda xylophone music
Mbira music of Jege A. Tapera
A report on the use of stane clappers for the accompaniment of sacred songs: a practice found near the town of Iwo in the western region of Nigeria
A case for the name Mbira
Patterns of Nsenga Kalimba music
The Endara xylophone of Bukonjo
Venda note-names
Discovery of a Trough Xylophone in Northern Mozambique
A Lunda Kalendi
Three tunes for 'Mbira dza Vadzimu'
Experiment with a Xylophone key
The music of a Lunda Kalendi
Harp music of the Azande and related peoples in the Central African Republic (Part 1 - Horizontal harp playing)
Recording and studying music in Northern Mozambique. (With drawings and photograph by Helmut Hillegeist)
Popular songs and national identity in Malawi
Generic names for the Mbira. (A Contribution to Hugh Traceys article A Case for the name Mbira)
Towards a text book of Kiganda music
Generic names for the mbira
Zande harp music
Transcription of Mangwilo xylophone music from film strips
The polyrhythmic foundation of Tswana pipe melody
Some music for the Kalumbu
Review article on the book: AFRICA AND INDONESIA: THE EVIDENCE OF THE XYLOPHONE AND OTHER MUSICAL AND CULTURAL FACTORS by A. M. JONES (pp. I-VIII, 1-233. Illus. Tables. Index. Pub. E. J. Brill. Leiden, 1964. Price: 36 Guilders).
The music of Ankole: the Sheegu pipeband, and the regalia of the royal drum "Bagyendanwa"
Ideophonic aspects of some Nyanja drum names
STEEL DRUMS IN ZAMBIA
The tuning of Mbira reeds: a contribution to the craft of Mbira making
Early historical illustrations of West and Central African music
XYLOPHONES IN THE SUDAN
Some music for the Lala Kankobele
On using the Stroboconn
Cewa concepts of musical instruments
The Matepe mbira music of Rhodesia
Ganda xylophone music: another approach
MBIRA MUSIC OF RHODESIA, performed by Abraham Dumisani Maraire. 12-inch Stereo LP, with 12 page booklet — “Mbiras and Performance in Rhodesia” by Abraham Dumisani Maraire, introduction by Robert Kauffman. University of Washington Ethnic Music Series, UWP-1001, Robert Garfias, General Editor, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1971
The nyanga panpipe dance
Towards a notation and tablature for the kora and its application to other instruments
Questionnaire into traditional African musical instruments
Les membranophones des Luba-Shankadi
Elephantiasis and music
Three principles of timing in Anlo dance drumming
Towards understanding the play of atsimevu Atsiã
The original African mbira?
The Americanization of three African musical instruments
Musical instrumentation among the San (Bushmen) of the Central Kalahari
'Principles governing the construction of the Silimba, a xylophone type found among the Lozi of Zambia', by Atta Annan Mensah.'Ghanaian xylophone studies', by Mitchel Strumpf.'Oral notation of some West and Central African time-line patterns', by Gerhard Kubik. 'Fieldwork in African music', by John Blacking
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF EAST AFRICA, 1 KENYA by Graham Hyslop, Nelson Africa Ltd, P.O.Box 73146, Nairobi, 1975, pp. viii, 64, photos, transcriptions
Long trumpets of northern Nigeria - in history and today
Notes on musical instruments among the Fulani of Diamare (north Cameroon)
MUSIC FROM MOZAMBIQUE III. Cordophonic instruments, wooden xylophone, percussion, by Ron and Ophera Hallis, 1983. No.FE.4319, Folkways Records, 43 W. 61st St, NYC, USA 10023.
Classification of Igbo musical instruments, Nigeria
Musical instruments, songs and dances of the Chokwe (Dundo region, Lunda district, Angola)
MAKING MUSIC: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN ZIMBABWE PAST AND PRESENT, by Claire Jones, Academic Books, Harare, 1992, 183pp, photos, transcriptions, diagrams.
On teaching Americans to play mbira like Zimbabweans
Zimbabwe Mbira Music on an International Stage: Chartwell Dutiro's Life in Music, Edited by Cartwell Dutiro and Keith Howard, SOAS Musicology Series, Ashgate: London. 2007, 98 pages, with CD: "Taanerimwe”, Chartwell Dutiro with Spirit Talk Mbira Live at Gateway (Gateway, SOAS Cat.No. SOASIS - 03), Hardbound: ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-5799-6.
Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana: Culture, Tradition and Sound Barrage. Joseph S. Kaminski. 2012. Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. CD, 37 bw ills., 27 music transcriptions, appendix, index, 226pp.
PRESERVATION AND REVITALISATION OF THE ENDANGERED GĨKŨYŨ FLUTE
"CREATIVE ETHNOMUSICOLOGY” AND AFRICAN ART MUSIC: A CLOSE MUSICAL READING OF WOOD AND CLAY, KUNDI DREAMS AND UMRHUBHE GEESTE BY ANTHONY CAPLAN
KARIMBA: THE SHIFTING BOUNDARIES OF A SACRED TRADITION
REASSESSING THE ZIMBABWEAN CHIPENDANI
CARÁNGANO AND WOMEN: STORY OF AN INSTRUMENT THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SABAR DRUMS: INNOVATIONS IN ORGANOLOGY AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICES IN SENEGAL AND THE DIASPORA
CONSTRUCTING DAGARA GYIL PEDAGOGY: THE LEGACY OF BERNARD WOMA
APPALACHIAN BLACK FIDDLING: HISTORY AND CREATIVITY
ARRULLOS, CHIGUALOS AND ALABAOS: TRADITIONAL AFRO-ESMERALDENIAN MUSIC IN ECUADOR
BRASS BAND MUSIC IN GHANA: THE INDIGENISATION OF EUROPEAN MILITARY MUSIC
Street language in Dùndún Drum Language
mbira of the Ndau
APPROACHES AND METHODS EMPLOYED IN REVITALISING THE SEPEREWA MUSICAL TRADITION IN GHANA
GENDERING MUSICAL DISCOURSE
Schlitztrommel aus Papua Neuguinea im Ile-Ona Museum of Art and Archival Materials in Iragbiji
