Ikembe, the Glossary
Ikembe, is a type of musical instrument of the lamellaphone group, common amongst the people of Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo.[1]
Table of Contents
39 relations: Acholi people, Africa, Alur people, ARChive of Contemporary Music, Arthur Morris Jones, Babatunde Olatunji, Bantu languages, Bemba language, Binomial nomenclature, Buganda, Burundi, Congo Basin, Crown Point, Indiana, East Africa, Europe, Francis William Galpin, Ghana, Greenwood Publishing Group, Hugh Tracey, John Day Company, Lamella (materials), Lamellophone, Makonde people, Malawi, Marimba, Mbira, Mother, Musical instrument, New York City, Rwanda, Seattle, Song, Swahili language, Uganda, University of California, Los Angeles, Westport, Connecticut, Xylophone, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
- Comb lamellophones
Acholi people
The Acholi people (also spelled Acoli) are a Nilotic ethnic group of Luo peoples (also spelled Lwo), found in Magwi County in South Sudan and Northern Uganda (an area commonly referred to as Acholiland), including the districts of Agago, Amuru, Gulu, Kitgum, Nwoya, Lamwo, Pader and Omoro District.
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
Alur people
Alur are a Nilotic ethnic group who live in northwestern Uganda and northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
ARChive of Contemporary Music
The ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC) is a non-profit music library and archive based in New York City.
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Arthur Morris Jones
Arthur Morris Jones (1889–1980), was an English missionary and musicologist who worked in Zambia during the early 20th century.
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Babatunde Olatunji
Michael Babatunde Olatunji (April 7, 1927 – April 6, 2003) was a Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist, and recording artist.
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Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (English:, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa.
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Bemba language
Bemba, ChiBemba (also Cibemba, Ichibemba, Icibemba and Chiwemba), is a Bantu language spoken primarily in north-eastern Zambia by the Bemba people and as a lingua franca by about 18 related ethnic groups.
Binomial nomenclature
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.
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Buganda
Buganda is a Bantu kingdom within Uganda.
Burundi
Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa.
Congo Basin
The Congo Basin (Bassin du Congo) is the sedimentary basin of the Congo River.
Crown Point, Indiana
Crown Point is a city in and the county seat of Lake County, Indiana, United States.
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East Africa
East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Francis William Galpin
Francis William Galpin (December 25, 1858 December 30, 1945) was an English cleric and antiquarian musicologist.
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Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.
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Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.
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Hugh Tracey
Hugh Travers Tracey was an English ethnomusicologist.
John Day Company
The John Day Company was a New York publishing firm that specialized in illustrated fiction and current affairs books and pamphlets from 1926 to 1968.
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Lamella (materials)
A lamella (lamellae) is a small plate or flake, from the Latin, and may also be used to refer to collections of fine sheets of material held adjacent to one another, in a gill-shaped structure, often with fluid in between though sometimes simply a set of 'welded' plates.
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Lamellophone
A lamellophone (also lamellaphone or linguaphone) is a member of the family of musical instruments that makes its sound by a thin vibrating plate called a lamella or tongue, which is fixed at one end and has the other end free.
Makonde people
The Makonde are an ethnic group in southeast Tanzania, northern Mozambique, and Kenya.
Malawi
Malawi (in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa.
Marimba
The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets.
Mbira
Mbira are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe. Ikembe and Mbira are comb lamellophones.
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Mother
A mother is the female parent of a child.
Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
Rwanda
Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.
Song
A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice.
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Swahili language
Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands).
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Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Westport, Connecticut
Westport is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, along the Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast.
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Xylophone
The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.
Zambia
Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.
See also
Comb lamellophones
- Agidigbo
- Array mbira
- Comb
- Gordon Koang
- Guitaret
- Ikembe
- Ilimba
- Kisanji
- Marímbula
- Matepe
- Mbira
- Music box
- Prempensua
- Slit drums
- Space Harp
- Tom (Ethiopian instrument)