13 Keyboards, Tunings, and Resonators

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Part A Childhood Lessons, 1953–63
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Ritual Foundations 5
7. 2 A Teacher Arrives 21
8. 3 Musical Foundations 31
9. 4 Variations and Beats 41
10. 5 Interlocking 53
11. 6 Growing Pains 65
12. 7 Magaya Village 73
13. Part B Teenage Growth, 1964–71
14. Introduction 80
15. 8 The Mbira and the Cross 83
16. 9 Unseen Hands 95
17. 10 Advanced Student 105
18. 11 Early Professional Trials 115
19. 12 Crisscrossing the Country 127
20. 13 Keyboards, Tunings, and Resonators 140
21. 14 Seasoned Players and Connoisseurs 151
22. 15 Conflicting Practices 159
23. Part C Maestro
24. Introduction 166
25. 16 The Mighty River 168
26. 17 Invention 175
27. 18 The Art of Noticing 185
28. 19 Recognition 195
29. 20 Coda 202
30. Part D Music Texts
31. Appendix 1 Guide to Mbira Staff Notation: Representing Mbira Compositions 209
32. Appendix 2 Chapter Musical Examples 216
33. Appendix 3 Guide to Mbira Box Tablature 248
34. Appendix 4 Beginners’ Guide to Playing Eight Mbira Compositions 253
35. Part E Supplementary Material
36. Appendix 5 Descriptions of Audio Examples from Selected Interludes and Chapter 20 (Berliner Early 1970s Field Recordings, Mondoro) 269
37. Appendix 6 Rhodesian/Zimbabwean Place Names and Current Names/Spellings 280
38. Appendix 7 List of Lucas Bambo’s Linocut Prints 281
39. Appendix 8 Cosmas’s and Musical Associates’ Extended-Family and Clan Relationships 282
40. Acknowledgments 285
41. Notes 287
42. References 301
43. Subject Index 305
44. Index of Examples 315