{"title":"Exploring Ethiopian Instrumental Music and Musicians","authors":"Timkehet Teffera","doi":"10.30819/5319.20","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n In many Ethiopian traditional cultures, vocal music dominates the musical repertoire. It is only\nin a handful of traditional contexts, where solely instrumental music becomes part of the\nrepertoire. Contrary to this, however, the modern music domain in Ethiopia offers a wide range\nof instrumental music. The root of instrumental music in Ethiopia is, most probably, connected\nwith the emergence of independent/private bands in the early 1960s. These modern bands with\nhighly trained Ethiopian musicians, among others, offered ‘light-music’ in hotels and restaurants.\nIn the initial periods, their repertoire mainly entailed re-arranged international melodies. The\nadvancement of the modern music paved a way to increasing musical creativity over the decades\nto follow. My presentation will attempt to look at instrumentals performed with western music\ninstruments, of which the large part derives from already existing traditional and modern songs.\nRepresentative musical pieces will be given special focus in terms of their instrumentation, rearrangement,\nmelodic and metro-rhythmic structures, form and style along with their function,\nmeaning and understanding.\n\n","PeriodicalId":167203,"journal":{"name":"Wie wir leben wollen. Kompendium zu Technikfolgen von Digitalisierung, Vernetzung und Künstlicher Intelligenz","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Wie wir leben wollen. Kompendium zu Technikfolgen von Digitalisierung, Vernetzung und Künstlicher Intelligenz","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.30819/5319.20","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In many Ethiopian traditional cultures, vocal music dominates the musical repertoire. It is only
in a handful of traditional contexts, where solely instrumental music becomes part of the
repertoire. Contrary to this, however, the modern music domain in Ethiopia offers a wide range
of instrumental music. The root of instrumental music in Ethiopia is, most probably, connected
with the emergence of independent/private bands in the early 1960s. These modern bands with
highly trained Ethiopian musicians, among others, offered ‘light-music’ in hotels and restaurants.
In the initial periods, their repertoire mainly entailed re-arranged international melodies. The
advancement of the modern music paved a way to increasing musical creativity over the decades
to follow. My presentation will attempt to look at instrumentals performed with western music
instruments, of which the large part derives from already existing traditional and modern songs.
Representative musical pieces will be given special focus in terms of their instrumentation, rearrangement,
melodic and metro-rhythmic structures, form and style along with their function,
meaning and understanding.