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Music of Chad - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Erato, Euterpe, Orpheus, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Arrangement, Babel, Copy, Din, Draft, Edition, Harmonics, Harmony, Hullabaloo, Hymnal, Hymnbook, Libretto
West African music
Benin Burkina Faso
Chad Côte d'Ivoire
Gambia Ghana
Guinea Guinea-Bissau
Liberia Mali
Mauritania Niger
Nigeria Senegal
Sierra Leone Togo
Western Sahara

Chad is an ethnically diverse West African country. Each of its regions boasts its own unique varieties of music and dance. The Fulani people, for example, use single-reeded flutes, while the ancient griot tradition uses five-string kinde and various kinds of horns, and the Tibesti region uses lutes and fiddles.

The national anthem of Chad is "La Tchadienne," written in 1960 by Paul Villard and Louis Gidrol with help from Gidrol's student group.

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