CHAPTER 26: EXPLORING THE HARMONICA FOR RUDIMENTARY MUSIC

Ikedimma Nwabufo Okeke (PhD)

Abstract


This paper explored the capability of the harmonica- a small mouth-blown wood-wind musical instrument- in handling rudimentary music. The potentiality of this musical instrument has been ignored for decades because of the predominance of some other musical instruments like the Piano-keyboard, viloin, guitar, saxophone, autoharp, etc.The nature of the diatonic harmonica was studied in this paper and it was discovered that the instrument is capable of conveying virtually all aspects of rudimentary music such as, scale, pitch, melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, note discrimination, phrasing, accompanying, sightreading, and music appreciation. Several years of experimentation and experience with the harmonica in teaching children music has also shown that the instrument is handy, simple, affordable, available, durable, and adaptable for the fundmentals of musicology.

keywords: Harmonica, Wood-wind musical instrument and Rudimentary music


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