225. West Africcan Music
P1 - In the core of European music was to embellish a melody via the counterpoint of instruments and set it to a rhythm.
=> the key elements of West Afican music were thythm and timbre instead
P2 - European melodism was an extension of the Indo-European language
=> WA percussionism is an extension of the west african languges
1) a simulation of the spoken lanugage. Learn to play musi while they were learning to speak
2) WA percussive music had the same semantic value of European melodic music, except the axis of meaning was perpendicular