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For the modern conductor, the inquisitive researcher, or the passionate choir lead, the search for authentic African choral music can often feel like wandering through a vast, unmapped landscape. There is a deep, resonant beauty in the music that has emerged from the fertile soils of the African continent: melodies that drift like clouds over…...

African Composers Edition (ACE) serves African composers and African music primarily by typesetting previously unpublished scores (sheet music). We specialise in transcribing and translating choral music in tonic solfa notation, recognising that few choirs worldwide can access this genre, but we also publish other genres of African art music, and jazz....

This guide is not a definitive document but a ‘rough guide’ to a language that has tricky pronunciation issues and is known to few people outside southern Africa....

African choral music began to emerge as a genre in late-18th-century southern Africa after the arrival of European missionaries....

Most music in southern Africa has historically been performed by people who do not sing or play from written scores (see African Music Scores: History), but since the later 19th century notated music has increasingly been used, alongside orally transmitted music....