36.3359, Books: Grammatical Structures in Yoruba Drum Music and Speech Surrogacy Traditions: De Figueiredo González (2025)

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Date: 03-Nov-2025
From: Jan Martin [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Grammatical Structures in Yoruba Drum Music and Speech Surrogacy Traditions: De Figueiredo González (2025)


Title: Grammatical Structures in Yoruba Drum Music and Speech
Surrogacy Traditions
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
           http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://dx.medra.org/10.48273/LOT0700

Author(s): Mariano de Figueiredo González

Paperback
ISBN: 978-94-6093-485-8
Pages: 195
Price: 34,00 euros

Abstract:

This dissertation examines three kinds of grammatical structures
present in Yoruba drum music and language.
Chapter 1 is dedicated to speech-to-drum mapping in the speech
surrogacy systems of Yoruba dùndún and bàtá drums, and investigates
how each of these drums presents unique strategies based on pitch,
timbre, and duration, in imitating Yoruba speech.
Chapter 2 analyses a repertoire of pieces for dùndún ensemble and
utilizes the proposition of musical grammars as a pathway to
understanding the structural foundation of this drum music tradition.
The proposed grammars elucidate, among others, how the rhythmic
backbone of the studied pieces are generated, and which rules are
applied in the production of pattern variations.
Chapter 3 is an investigation of African cyclic timeline patterns and
the algorithms that generate them. The chapter provides a critical
review of analytical methods in the description of African rhythmic
phenomena and analyses a unique pattern found in the dundun
repertoire, the unconventionally long and complex timeline pattern of
the Ìlu Àgbà.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science

Subject Language(s): Yoruba (yor)




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