1. What can you tell me about sub-Saharan African music? What is its importance? Who participates? What is it combined with? What occasions is it used for? Is it different to Western music? Instrumental music Choral Drumming Instruments

2. What is its importance? Communication Feelings Emotions Social gatherings

3. Who participates? Everybody Unites people Regardless of ability Part of everyday life

4. What is it combined with? Movement Costumes Stories Speech Mime Masks Body painting

5. What occasions is it used for? Weddings Funerals Birthdays Harvest

6. Do you think music has the same role and importance throughout the world? Do you think it is appreciated in the same way?

7. Drumming Certain rhythms mean certain things Communication Oral tradition – no traditional notation Varies from region to region Will increase in tension Signal Solo Master drummer

8. Choral Music = link to spirit world Call and response Short, simple melodies Improvisation Harmony varies from region to region Overlapping textures Tone languages – Pitch determines the meaning of words

9. Instrumental Membranaphones Idiohones Aerophones Chordophones Body percussion Vocables Interlocks and overlaps

10. Common features to include Repetition Improvisation Polyrhythm Call & Response Cyclic structure Intertwining melodies

11. Instruments Djembe Talking drum Dundun Balaphone