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Chopi Orchestras in Mozambique

m.youtube.com The Chopi Timbila

UNESCO: Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity - 2008URL: https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/chopi-timbila-00133Description: The Chopi...

The Chopi Timbila

Discovered this music while reading “The Study of Ethnomusicology” by Nettl.

“The xylophonist of a Chopi orchestra made up music as he went along, but he was constrained by rules articulated by his leader”

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