rtoires of Ewe music is the movement that accompanies it. Both female and male dancers accompany the Ewe drumming, although their dance styles differ, the male style being more acrobatic. The last feature of the music culture model is the material culture of the music--everything that a culture produces related to music. The most important objects produced are the instruments. The main Ewe membranophones and idiophones are five drums, of decreasing size: the atsimevu, the kidi, the totodzi, the kloboto, and the kagann, as well as a gourd shaker called an axatse and the leading double bell, called the gankogui. The music culture model fosters understanding on a deeper level than just listening to or reading the music. By understanding how and why a culture produces music the way it does, more knowledge can be gained both about the culture and the music. By analyzing the music of the Ewe people in this way, greater appreciation is attained....
