Selamawit Yohannes

Ethiopian music began to assume a severe personality with the laying out of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the fourth century AD. The pioneer of Ethiopian church music, Yared, cultivated the undeniable melodic style that is at this point utilized today. He used excited three-mode tones. The Muslim melodic style known as Manzuma began in the northern Ethiopian city of Wollo and a short time later spread all through the whole country. The most unquestionable entertainers in the Ethiopian Highlands are cherished "azmaris," or artists. Ethiopian music in like manner used the "qenet" measured system, a pentatonic scale with long openings between most notes. Despite the four head strategies for "qenet": "tezeta," "bati," "ambassel," and "anchihoy," there are three unique modes that are assortments of the fundamental four modes: "tezeta minor," "bati major," and "bati minor."

Ethiopian music is routinely heterophonic or monophonic, with the exception of a couple of southern districts that embrace a polyphonic system (Dorze polyphonic). Since its underlying practices, when religion was by and large associated with it, Ethiopian music has gone through tremendous change. 40 Armenian transients (Arba Lijoch) appeared in Ethiopia from Jerusalem during the standard of Emperor Haile Selassie, spreading out the metal band melodic legacy