By Dr. Timkehet Teferra

Dr. Timkehet Teferra is an Ethiopian ethnomusicologist who has been researching musical cultures for the past 20 years with a focus on Ethiopian and East African music. Below is an abstract of the article as titled above. The full version including annotations, references and additional illustrations is available here in PDF format .

Abstract

This paper bases a research conducted in central Ethiopia in 1997 particularly focusing on children musicians (ca. 10-14 years of age) from Bahər Dār, their musical activities and their experience in the traditional music repertoire. Other important aspects discussed here refer to the case of orally transmitted musical traditions along with the process of learning that can only take place through long lasting active participation in music events. This paper thus portrays the musical life of the children musicians, their efforts to compete with adult musicians to offer their music on various events. Alternatively the question, to what extent children can master and arrange the traditional music repertoire, abstract certain systematic aspects or understand similar theoretical features; to what extent they comprehend musical rules that are specifically related with pitch sequences that represent traditional tuning, the Qəñət, have been taken into consideration.

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written by Belay D. , April 28, 2010

i think, this issue(Observations of Children Musicians in Bahər Dār By Dr. Timkehet Teferra) deserves more consideration. it seems for me untouched topic like many other cultural and traditional components of Ethiopia as well as Africa. My respect to Dr. Timkehet Teferra's performance in this essential cultural issue.

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