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ArtsKeele
Music
Keele Music Forum
Music Workshop:
Dr Peter Cooke
(SOAS University)
7 November
1.15pm
Clock House Lecture Room,
Keele University
Philharmonic
Orchestra and
Keele Voices Choir
3 November
7.30pm
Keele University Chapel
Entry £5 Adult
£2.50 Student/Concession
Stravinsky:
Suites for Orchestra Nos. 1 and 2
Debussy:
La Damoiselle Elue
(to mark the centenary
of Debussy’s death)
Tchaikovsky:
Secular Choral Piece
Dvorak:
2 Slavonic Dances
Keele Philharmonic Orchestra
and Keele Voices choir are
student-run societies welcoming
players from both the student
and staffing bodies of Keele
University, as well as from the
local community.
Performing around three
concerts a year either on
campus or in churches in the
Newcastle-under-Lyme area,
presenting a range of classical
repertoire and focused on
community participation in music.
KPO and Keele Voices are
always looking for opportunities
to perform with passionate
new members, in new venues,
to as many people as possible.
Tickets proceeds will be donated
to Mind.
Free Entry
Hocketing flutes, clamorous
trumpets and chattering
xylophones: polyrhythmic
textures and interlocking
techniques in Ugandan
music-making.
This combined lecture/workshop
explores a feature of much
sub-Saharan African music
which has long fascinated
Western, and indeed some
African musicologists and other
observers. We will consider such
questions as, “Why is polyphonic
interlocking such a widespread
feature of musics in Africa and
yet so rare elsewhere?” and
“Why do so many Europeans
often find it so challenging
to perform such interlocking
styles?” – prompting them to
ask “Where is the beat?” From
the outset this session will give
an opportunity to perform songs
from north-western Uganda on
osegu (one note flutes) and to
learn some of the techniques of
xylophone playing in two regions
of southern Uganda. The lecture
will also make use of audio,
video and slides made during
fieldwork in Uganda.