Talk:Baganda music

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Since the music of several Baganda instruments is closely connected, I decided to treat them all in one article. I am not yet finished with this article, the main part is missing, but I need a break. Since I am not a native speaker of English, my grammar etc. might need some copyediting. Please feel free to do so! Nannus 14:44, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

More has to be added, also about other instruments and topics not yet covered (like, for instance, historical songs, researched by Peter Cooke). Parts that become large (like the Amadinda section) will eventually be moved to separate articles and only a small section with a link left here. Nannus 21:08, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Maybe somebody can write an article about Gerhard Kubik? He is an austrian ethnomusicologist who, as far as I know, made the single largest collection of recordings of African music worldwide. Most of this material is archived in Phonogrammarchiv Wien, some of it has been published. If nobody does, I will eventually do so myself, but if you want to do it, please do so!Nannus 21:18, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the page with the transcriptions of Amadinda pieces is gone. It was a user's page at the "Freie Universität Berlin". I have to see if it has been moved somewhere or deletet. I have saved a copy on my computer. Anyway, the Amadinda scores on it have been published in the book "Music in Afrika", edited by A. Simon. I will have to go to the library to look up the details. Nannus 13:14, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

The last Edits where mine. Forgott to log on. Nannus 14:39, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Needs help!
Someone, please help! This article is simply not up to Wikipedia standards. Prof.rick 10:20, 16 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I'll go through this article once for copyediting. Unfortunately this article is quite technical (therefore, hard to understand) and poorly written. Rintrah 07:21, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Misleading lead
What about the Slendro of Java and Bali? 5-tet is not unique! Prof.rick 10:22, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Sentences
This article is difficult to edit.

For this reason, budongo music is not part of the traditional court music. I don't get it so I left it alone. For what reason?

This means that in an emic description the scale can be called an equipentatonic scale while on an etic level of description, there might be different variations of implementing that conceptual scale. I could amend this sentence to make it flow better, but I don't get it!

''In Baganda culture, like in many African cultures, the musical scale is not perceived as pointing from "low" to "high" tones but the other way around, from "small" to "large" or "big" tones. Despite this, the notation (created by European ethnomusicologists) used for the music denotes the deepest tone as "1" and the highest as "5".'' Don't get it.

In singing, "coarse" timbres are often used. There is no explanation of what is meant by coarse.

It is too much effort to do more work. I'll come back later. Rintrah 07:21, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

The ennanga has only eight strings, so parallel octaves can only be played within a restricted interval, but the general compository principles applying to the xylophone music are the same in the chord instruments. What does this mean? Nothing from my music theory sheds any light on this. It needs to be phrased more clearly.

The Music and Language section is very interesting but needs to be made clearer.

I am finished. I'll come back again to read it once more. Rintrah 12:24, 25 October 2006 (UTC)