Pygmy: Folk Music of Central African Republic

The past pygmy music comprises of at most only four parts, and can be defined as an ostinato with differences or similar to a passacaglia in that it is cyclical. In fact it is based on the replication of periods of the equal length, and each of the composer divides the use of different rhythmic figures specific to separate list and songs. Its interesting case of ethnomusicology and ethnomathematics that made the detailed surface and endless variations of not only the same time repeated, but the same piece of music. As in some of the Balinese gamelan these styles are based on a super-style that is never heard. The Pygmies themselves do not learn or think of their music in this theoretical framework, but learn the music growing up, also the pygmy patterns include liquindi, or water drumming and instruments such as the bow harp (ieta), ngombi (harp zither) and limbindi (a cord bow) Abram.

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