Paper 1 (8 points): Sub-Saharan Africa has a long history of musical praxis. Consider what we call “the early horizon” and consider what the concept “traditional music” might mean; and watch the 12 musical examples on WWMk playlist: 0P1-Music in Africa-F2022-Music of Early Horizons? .
After watching and taking notes on these videos, develop an essay working with the title, “Music in Africa and “Early Horizons”: What some Surviving Musical Examples seem to Suggest.” You may want to think of this essay as a lengthy answer to an exam question of the nature “Why do we mean by “early horizons” and what might its musical legacy be?” In your essay–since it is a take-home essay, it is a “paper”–you will be able to include commentary on any and all of the songs on this playlist (your essay should refer in some way to at least 6 of the videos); but to make the paper complete, you must include a full analysis of at least two of the videos. Each piece should be discussed according to the “6 parts of music,” in order. Don’t skip any of the parts. In writing your paper, always remember that this is a music class, and your focus should always be the music. If your paper is, say 1,500 words, then at least 1,000 words should be about the music (that is, at least 2/3rds of the wordage should be devoted to musical issues.
The URL for 12 Videos is: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq4hc_NU9DrxCKpMSCXW0KR45-ysfda1X