Resources

Javanese Gamelan

The following teaching resources are available for download:

1. Teaching Manual (.pdf)
2. Answers to Quizzes:
        - Introduction to Indonesia Q & A's
        - Introduction to Indonesian music Q & A's
        - Indonesian Music Report answers
3. Answers to listening questions:
        - Listen to Kebogiro instruments build up answers
        - Listen to Kebogiro Simple Version
        - Listen to Kebogiro Decorated answers
4. UK National Curriculum Focus (.pdf)
5. Composition Log Book for students

Reading

• The Rough Guide to World Music Vol 2 : Latin & North America, Carribbean, India, Asia and Pacific: Edited by Simon Broughton and Mark Ellingham published by Rough Guides Ltd. 2000
  
  Good source of information about styles of music and available CDs.



• A Guide to the Gamelan: Neil Sorrell; Faber and Faber 1990.
  
  Centred on Javanese Music. Excellent and very clear; but may be more useful to teachers.
  

African Drumming

The following teaching resources are available for download:

1. Teaching Manual (.pdf)
2. Answers to Quizzes
       - Introduction to West Africa Q & A's
       - Introduction to West African Music Q & A's
   
3. Answers to listening questions
4. UK National Curriculum Focus (.pdf)

Further Resources:

Reading

Academic Studies

• Studies in African Music Vols 1 & 2 by A.M. Jones. Oxford University Press 1959
  
  Out of print but available in libraries. This is a highly regarded text on Ewe music from Ghana. Volume 1 contains the text; Volume 2 musical scores of transcriptions of whole pieces.
  
  
• African Rhythm and African Sensibility by John Miller Chernoff. University of Chigaco Press. 1979
  
  Excellent and thorough examination of the social context of the music.
  
  
• Writings about Music by Steve Reich. Universal Edition. 1974
  
  Contains chapters on the author’s first hand experiences learning drumming at a drum school in Ghana. Some interesting observations on how this influences Reich’s own music.

Practical Music-Making

• Drum Gahu : An Introduction to African Rhythm by David Lock. White Cliffs Media Inc. 1998
  
  Comprehensive instructions on how to put-together an extended version of Gahu. It comes with an accompanying CD that features demonstrations of every pattern using mnemonics and instruments.
  
  
• African Drum Music by Kongo Zabana. Afran Publications (Ghana) Limited. 1997
  
  This is a series of titles covering the major forms of dance drumming from Ghana, eg. Kpanlogo; Adowa; and Slow Agbekor presented in full staff notation both as individual instrumental parts and full score.
  
  

Listening

• World Music. The Rough Guide. Volume 1 : Africa, Europe and the Middle East Edited by Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham and Richard Trillo. Rough Guides Ltd. 1999.
  
  Excellent way of getting an overview of the traditional and contemporary music scene in each region.

Teaching

• Exploring the Music of the World : Music of West Africa by Trevor Wiggins. WOMAD Foundation. Publ Heinemann Educational Books (Oxford) Ltd. 1993
  
  Excellent resource. Plenty of context and lots of musical activities covering a rnage of West African Music not just drumming. Comes with accompanying cassette.
  
  

Web-based

• Wikipedia - General background on West Africa
  
  
• Wikipedia - Music of Africa - Good basic information about each region
  
  
• Wikipedia - Ewe Music
  
  
• Wikipedia - Ewe Drumming
  
  
• African Dance Drumming - very detailed information about the culture, instruments and musical principles from a respected Master Drummer. Includes all sorts of musical resources including another version of Gahu in full score.
  

Interactive sites

• Fun with the Abadja Rhythm
  
  
• Virtual Instrument Museum - A Virtual Instruments museum which features demonstrations of African instruments and music.
  
• African Drum Beat - All sorts of information about African Music. It includes rhythm learning activities.
  
  
• On-line lessons on how to create various African grooves
  
  
• Drum School - The site of the drum school that Jon Ward and the Transglobals attended in Ghana.

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