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Friday Lessons with Sir Shelton Mwanyisa
Greetings learners, parents and guardians!
Welcome to your Visual and Performing Arts weekly lessons brought to you by your favourite newspaper, The Manica Post.
I expect you to have exercise book and a pen to write the work given as exercises.
Today our topic is Classification of musical instruments.
You are expected to be able to:
(i) state at least four classes of musical instruments.
(ii) group musical instruments according to how they sound.
Music instruments are grouped into categories based on how they sound.
The categories are membranophones, idiophones, aerophones, chordophones and electrophones.
Membranophones get their name from the word membrane.
They have a membrane which produces sound when rubbed or hit.
An example is ngoma.
The idiophones are a group of musical instruments that have a solid material such as metal, wood or stone which vibrate to produce sound.
Examples include marimba, rattles and xylophones.
Another class of musical instruments are chordophones.
As seen from the word chord, the instruments haves chords which produce sound when string plucked or rubbed.
Examples include chipendani.
The aerophones are a group of musical instruments that produce sound when air is blown through them.
The flute and trumpet are examples of aerophones.
The electrophones produce sound based on electronic technology.
The electric guitar and keyboard are examples.
Now draw and complete the table below in your exercise book.
Classification of musical instruments
Example of musical instrument
Mbira
Hosho
Tambourine
chordophone
aerophones
Here are answers from last week’s task:
1.Visual arts are 2D and 3D forms of expression that are displayed.
2. Performing arts are forms of expression in which the body is used to send a message.
3. Soap stone was used to make the Zimbabwe bird
.4. The granite rock was used to construct the Great Zimbabwe monuments.
5. Visual and performing arts are important for employment creation, they are a means of expression, they are a source of entertainment and some artwork are used for ceremonial purposes.
6. Examples of 2D shapes are square and triangle.
7. Examples of 3D shapes are cube, triangular prism and rectangular prism.
Follow next week’s Visual and Performing Arts lesson for pre-colonial artworks from Zimbabwe.
