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New, interactive project offers a look at a rare piece of African-diasporic sheet music.

The song “Angola” stages a lively conversation between the upper and lower registers in a call-and-response pattern. It is the only one of these tunes with lyrics that clearly align with the notes. The pattern recalls a drumming style, but may have been performed on a low pitched stringed instrument, or on a balafon, which is a type of xylophone that has wooden keys with gourd resonators. Balafons were common in parts of West Africa and in many sites within the African diaspora. 

Learn more: http://today.duke.edu/2016/06/musicalpassage

See the project: http://www.musicalpassage.org/

Angola (adapted For Chorus, Fretless Banjo And Percussion)

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Angola (adapted For Chorus, Fretless Banjo And Percussion)

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