Body percussion
Body percussion is the generation of sound with your own body with the help of hands, feet, fingers and the mouth. If the voice is also used, it is called body music .
origin
Primates such as gorillas or chimpanzees use body percussion as a chest punch to amplify the roar or as a threatening gesture. The chirping of the crickets by rubbing their back feet together can also be counted as body percussion.
Body percussion is used in various dances
- Juba , a plantation dance that uses body percussion as a drum substitute
- Schuhplattler , in which the Schuhplattler, slapping the thighs, knees and soles of the feet is the man's solo
- Flamenco , in which the rhythmic clapping and the hard stamping with the heel are characteristic
Sound generation
The most important sound generation options in body percussion are clapping with your hands, tapping with your hands on other parts of the body, and stamping with one or both feet. You can tap on all parts of the body, using either the flat hand, fist or just the fingers. Changing the shape of the hand changes the sound of both clapping and knocking.
Clicking the tongue , chattering teeth, pounding and snapping fingers are other body percussion sounds.
The dynamics of the individual body percussion sounds are very different and can only be changed little for many sounds. Clapping is the most flexible dynamic, some sounds can only be heard in the piano or mezzoforte.
notation
There are no fixed rules of notation for body percussion. Following the drum notation , the body percussion works by Andreas Horwath include stamping feet like a bass drum , clapping like a snare , snapping fingers like a hi-hat and knocking on the chest, stomach and thighs like tom toms. Effects are usually notated using special noteheads and on other staff lines or spaces.
The composer Andreas Horwath has written three works for body percussion, which implement well-known melodies with body percussion.
- Body percussion
- Body percussion classic
- Body percussion Zarathustra
literature
- Richard Filz : Body Percussion. Sounds and Rhythms. The comprehensive training program. Alfred, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-933136-87-9 (book / DVD).
- Martin J. Junker: Six bagatelles for body percussion solo. Gretel-Verlag, Dinklage 2000
- Gerhard Reiter: Body-Percussion 1 . Helbling, Esslingen 2005, ISBN 3-85061-095-0 (school work that uses body percussion to convey a sense of rhythm in music students.)
- Dietrich Wöhrlin: Rhythm & Body Percussion. Incl. two body percussion pieces. Coda, Lübeck 2007, ISBN 978-3-940161-10-9 (book / CD).
- Jürgen Zimmermann: JUBA - The world of body percussion. Fidula, Boppard / Rhein 1999, ISBN 3-87226-338-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ ... because body percussion is difficult . Ces-dur Musikverlag, accessed on April 14, 2011 .
- ↑ Sheet music sample Body percussion . Ces-dur Musikverlag, accessed on April 14, 2011 .
- ^ Body percussion 1 . Helbling Verlag, accessed on April 14, 2011 .
