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Audio Selection:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The audio clip captures a short performance of a relatively austere “opening” piece. The support drums simply keep a fast steady pulse while the player of the large fromkasi<\/em> provides periodic short rhythmic outbursts. Occasionally the\u00a0atumpan<\/i> player adds a two-tone rhythmic utterance or cuts across the support beat in an interesting way. The gongon<\/em> simply keeps its short timeline pattern sounding throughout.<\/p>\n

Video Selection:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of the video clip is dedicated to the same performance of this opening piece. For a moment, an individual is focused on as he moves in a way appropriate to the music. The clip ends with an excerpt from another, far more lively piece and the spontaneous movement it elicits.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fontom1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n

Performance Forces:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
gongon<\/em><\/td>\nlarge, single, clapperless metal bell struck with a stick; time-keeping instrument<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
atumpan<\/em><\/td>\na pair of large single-headed, goblet-shaped tubular drums struck with a pair of beaters by a single drummer; lead drum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
eguankoba<\/em><\/td>\nsingle-headed tubular drum, barrel-shaped, struck with two stick beaters; supporting rhythm instrument<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ansaba<\/em><\/td>\nsingle-headed tubular drum, footed, struck with two straight sticks; supporting rhythm instrument<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
fromkasi<\/em><\/td>\nlarge barrel-shaped, single-headed tubular drum, struck with two L-shaped stick beaters or occasionally with one stick beater and one open hand; rhythmic instrument<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Audio Selection: The audio clip captures a short performance of a relatively austere “opening” piece. The support drums simply keep a fast steady pulse while the player of the large fromkasi provides periodic short rhythmic outbursts. Occasionally the\u00a0atumpan player adds a two-tone rhythmic utterance or cuts across the support beat in an interesting way. The … Continue reading “Fontomfrom Audio and Video Selections”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}