Syllabus content and objectives
Official JAMB Music outline · Section C: History and Literature of African Music
Contents / notes
- Types of folksongs: cradle songs, folk tales, games, war songs, satirical songs, dirges or funeral songs, historical songs, praise songs and work songs.
- Forms: call and response, strophic, through-composed and antiphony.
- Vocal styles: recitative, yodelling, ululation, incantation, heaving, whistling and nasalisation.
- Scales and modes: tritonic, tetratonic, pentatonic and hexatonic.
- Metre and rhythm: metric and non-metric, polymetric, cross-rhythm, syncopation, hemiola and polyrhythm.
Candidate objectives
- Identify various folksongs and their types.
- Define and compare their forms and features.
- Mention characteristic features of vocal, scale and rhythmic styles in African music.
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