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Kirby, Percival

 
9781868146055: Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa
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ISBN 10: 1868146057 ISBN 13: 9781868146055
Editorial: Wits University Press, 2013

Sinopsis

A detailed collection of information about the playing and making of   the instruments of indigenous peoples' in South Africa. 
 
Percival Kirby was a musician and ethnomusicologist and for many years head of the music department at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Between 1923 and 1933 he undertook more than nine expeditions as well as many shorter excursions around South Africa. He was hosted by local chiefs and taught to play the instruments he encountered. He managed to purchase many of them, and this collection, now known as the Kirby Collection, is housed at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town. First published as Musical Instruments of the Native Races of South Africa in 1934, the book was the culmination of research trips undertaken by Percival Kirby. It became the standard reference on indigenous South African musical instruments. The bulk of the material is concerned with detailed information on the making and playing of each instrument, and is accompanied by a large number of musical examples. This third edition contains an introduction by Mike Nixon, Head of the Ethnomusicology and African Music at the South African College of Music, and new reproductions of the valuable historic photographs, but leaves Kirby's original text unchanged.

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Percival Kirby was a musicologist and ethnomusicologist educated at the Royal College of Music in London. He was Professor of Music and stayed at the University of the Witwatersrand for 30 years. Kirby was a conductor, timpanist, flautist, composer, teacher, musicologist, scientist and artist.

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Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa

Third Edition of the Musical Instruments of the Native Races of South Africa

By Percival R. Kirby

Wits University Press

Copyright © 2013 Wits University Press
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-86814-605-5

Contents

FOREWORD BY MICHAEL NIXON, 
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION, 
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION, 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THIRD EDITION, 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, 
1 RATTLES AND CLAPPERS, 
2 DRUMS, 
3 XYLOPHONES AND 'SANSAS', 
4 BULL-ROARERS AND SPINNING-DISKS, 
5 HORNS AND TRUMPETS, 
6 WHISTLES, FLUTES, AND VIBRATING REEDS, 
7 REED-FLUTE ENSEMBLES, 
8 THE 'GORA', A STRINGED-WIND INSTRUMENT, 
9 STRINGED INSTRUMENTS, 
10 BUSHMAN AND HOTTENTOT VIOLINS AND THE 'RAMKIE', 
11 SOME EUROPEAN INSTRUMENTS PLAYED BY NATIVES, 
APPENDIX, 
ADDENDA, 
INDEX,


CHAPTER 1

RATTLES AND CLAPPERS


Dancing is a most important feature of the social life of all the native peoples of South Africa, and, as an adjunct to the dance, rattles of different kinds are almost invariably used.

The Bushmen had two or three varieties. Pride of place must be given to the dainty ankle-rattles which their women fashioned from the ears of the springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis). They were observed by Burchell (1812), who described them as worn by a Bushman. 'Round each ankle he wore a sort of rattle, made (in this instance) of four ears of the springbuck, sewed up and containing a quantity of small pieces of ostrich-egg shell, which at every motion of the foot produced a sound that was not unpleasant or harsh, but greatly aided the general effect of the performances.' Burchell gave a drawing of the rattle on the leg of a dancer, and he actually obtained the instruments used by the performer. They are preserved in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, where I examined them through the courtesy of the curator, Mr. Henry Balfour. They are black with age and shrivelled up. Two pairs, however, may be seen in South Africa, one in the McGregor Museum, Kimberley, and the other in my collection, given to me by the late Miss D. F. Bleek. Both sets were used by Cape Bushmen, and were made by a Bushwoman near Prieska. They were obtained in 1910. One rattle from the former pair is shown in Figure 1.1. It consists of five ears, beautifully sewn with sinew.

In Bleek and Lloyd's Bushman Folklore there is a quaint account, in the vernacular, of how these dancing-rattles, which were called /keriten, were made by the Qung Bushmen. Miss Lloyd translates it thus:


A woman takes off the skin [i.e. the hairy skin] of the springbok's ear; and then, she sews the inner skin of the springbok's ear, when she has laid aside the (hairy) skin of the springbok's ear; for it is the inner skin of its ear which she sews. And she sews it, and she scoops up with her hand, putting soft earth into it. And they dig, lading in earth, because they wish that the springbok ears may dry; that they may put in //kerri berries when they have taken out the earth. And then they tie on a small piece of sinew at the top of the springbok ear, which was open, while they tie shutting in the //kerri berries, so that the //kerri berries may not come out of the springbok ears; and they put in little threads, which the men are to tie, fastening the springbok ears to their feet.


These rattles were made by the women, and always used by the men, who wore them on their insteps, with the pointed tips uppermost. In the description of a dance, also

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Editorial
Wits University Press
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1868146057
ISBN 13 
9781868146055
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Tapa dura
Número de páginas
432
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