African Music

2. Vocal style used in African music (Loud).
6. Vocal style used in African music (Quiet).
8. Background ________: Attaching beads, coins, or other small objects to instruments to create a constant buzzing or rattling sound.
9. The historical event that brought African influences to American music.
11. A short pattern that repeats over and over; ostinato most often refers to a repeating melody but can also refer to a repeating rhythm.
12. Many languages of Sub-Saharan Africa are _____, meaning words may have different meanings depending on their inflection.
13. Many African languages have no separate word for ______.
15. A musician of the Mande people.
16. Syllables chosen for their expressive qualities but without any other meaning.

1. Key element of African music, includes drums, rattles, bells, xylophones, and mbiras.
3. Original Evening Birds, recorded chorus leader Solomon Linda's "The Lion", which became a hit and created this style.
4. The most common type of harp in Sub-Saharan Africa.
5. A melody created by a large group of instruments dividing the notes up among the different players
7. These forms feature an exchange between a single performer's vocal or instrumental call and a group response, "call-and-response".
10. A large chordophone that has been described as a hybrid harp-lute.
13. A plucked instrument consisting of a wooden board with attached metal prongs.
14. Rhythms that occur simultaneously in two different meters, or with different starting points. Can be very difficult and extremely complex.