Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region IV-A CALABARZON
Division of San Pablo City
DOLORES NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Brgy. Dolores, San Pablo City

Module number: 5 Checked by: Mr. Arik P. Manucat

Subject: MUSIC 10
Topic: MUSIC OF AFRICA
Prepared by: Ms. Evangeline G. Abril Noted by: Donny Aris C. Malvar, Ed.D

I. Objectives:
Identify the different musical instruments of Africa.
Describe the musical instruments of Africa
II. Reference:
Horizons 10
III. Topic Title:
Musical Instruments of Africa
African traditional music is largely functional in nature, used primarily in
ceremonial rites, such as birth, death, marriage, succession, worship, and spirit
invocations. Other are work related or social in nature, while may traditional
societies view their music as entertainment.
African music incorporates all the major instrumental genres of Western
music, including strings, winds, and percussion, along with a tremendous variety
of specific African musical instruments for solo or ensemble playing.
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IV. Summary:
 Idiophones – these are percussion instruments that are either struck
with a mallet or against one another.
 Balafon – it is a West African xylophone. It is a pitched percussion
instruments with bars made from logs or bamboo.
 Agogo – it is a single bell or multiple bells that had its origin in
traditional Yoruba music as well as in the samba bacteria.
 Rattles – these are vessels made of seashells, tin, basketry, animal
hoofs, horn, wood, metal, cocoons, palm kernels or tortoise
shells.
 Atingting kon – these are slit gongs used as communication between
villages.
 Slit drum – it is a hollow percussion instrument. It is usually carved or
constructed from bamboo or wood into a box with one or
more slits in the top.
 Rasp – it is a hand percussion instrument whose sound is produced by
scraping the notches on a piece of wood with a stick, creating a
series of rattling effects.
  Djembre – it is one of the best-known African drums. It is shaped like a
large goblet and played with bare hands.
 Shekere – it is a type of gourd and shell megaphone from West Africa,
consisting of a dried gourd with beads woven into a net
covering the gourd.
 Membranophones – are instruments, usually drums, which have
vibrating animal membranes.
 Talking drum – it is used to send messages to announce births, deaths,
marriages, sporting events, dances, initiation or war.
 Lamellaphone – one of the most popular African percussion instruments
which is a set of plucked tongues or keys mounted on a
sound board.
V. Activity:
See Attachment.
 Name: __________________ Date Submitted: ___________________
Section: _________________ Subject Teacher: ___________________

_____1. These are used as communication between villages.

a. Agogo c. Atingting kon
b. Rattles d. Balafon
_____2. It is a pitched percussion instrument with bars made from logs or bamboo.
a. Rattles c. Agogo
b. Balafon d. Atingting kon
_____3. These are vessels made of seashells, tin, basketry, animal hoofs, horn, wood, metal, cocoons,
palm kernels or tortoise shells.
a. Rattles c. Agogo
b. Balafon d. Atingting kon
_____4. It is a hand percussion instruments whose sound is produced by scraping notches on a piece of
wood with a stick, creating a series of rattling effects.
a. Rasp c. Slit drum
b. Balafon d. Shekeree
_____5. It is usually carved or constructed from bamboo or wood into a box with one or more slits in the
top.
a. Rasp c. Slit drum
b. Balafon d. Shekeree
_____6. It is shaped like a large goblet and played with bare hands.
a. Slit drum c. Djembe
b. Rasp d. Shekeree
_____7. It is used to send messages to announce births, deaths, marriages, sporting events, dances,
initiation or war.
a. Drum c. Talking drum
b. Violin d. Guitar
_____8. These are instruments, usually drums, which have vibrating animal membranes.
a. Idiophones c. Membranophones
b. Megaphones d. Xylophone
_____9. It is a type of gourd and shell megaphone from West Africa, consisting of a dried gourd with
beads woven into a net covering the gourd.
a. Rasp c. Balafon
b. Shekeree d. Drums
____10. These are percussion instruments that are either struck with a mallet or against one another.
a. Idiophones c. Membranophones
b. Megaphones d. Xylophone

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