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MUT 217 History and Literature of African Music

ND2 levelComputing & ICT10 topics

MUT 217 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Historical development of African music
  2. African music in the pre-colonial era
  3. Characteristics of Nigerian traditional music
  4. Regional distribution of Nigerian musical instruments
  5. Similarities among ethnic instruments
  6. Differences among ethnic instruments
  7. Hausa and Yoruba talking drums
  8. Birom and Igbo xylophones
  9. Performance techniques of xylophones
  10. Tonal functions of xylophones

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Historical development of African music

The historical development of African music covers the evolution from indigenous oral traditions to the incorporation of colonial and global influences. Mastering this topic is crucial for the exam because it tests knowledge of key periods, cultural exchanges, and the socio‑political contexts that shaped musical forms across the continent.

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