London Philharmonic Orchestra & Walter Susskind - The Messiah, HWV 56: Hallelujah

Despite the influence of Europe. church. music on steam. wok. music of Africans, the latter basically remained African. The impact of Europe. music was not limited to the area of ​​the church (later European music began to sound more often in the form of marches, fashionable songs), it led to a change in Afr. melodics, harmony, rhythm. This process is characteristic mainly for afr. cities, in rural areas (i. e. in the vast majority of Africa) it is insignificant and more difficult to trace. Rich in Afr. tools. Its basis is a group of percussion instruments, among which there are webbed percussion and, above all, drums: without resonators, boiler-like and cylindrical with a membrane, cylindrical with 2 membranes. The most ancient origin - drums without resonators, having a primitive device (the skin of an animal, dried in the sun, attached to the posts driven into the ground). The Bushmen and Hottentots have the simplest kind of cauldron-shaped drum with a membrane (a bamboo or wooden jug is filled with a small amount of water, its top is pulled in a sheep skin soaked in water).