Indian music is that practiced by the first people living in America. Also called Indians, Native Americans are the indigenous peoples whose presence precedes any Western colonization. Organized in true empire or single tribe, we find traces across the continent where there are the North American Indians, Meso-American Indians, Native Americans in Caribbean and South American Indians (Native American drums for sale).
This simple songs are similar to that of "Great Basin" with a strophic form, the use of falsetto, the tritone or tetratonic scales and melodic intervals typical of fourth or a fifth. Pueblo sing monophonies low, slow and complex (in five sections divided into phrases. With the Hopi and Zuni, the Taos Pueblo have one of richest music of continent, employing a variety of musical scales (hexatonique or heptatonic) a register of two octaves. The music of Pimas and Papagos is quite similar.
The Yumans (Pomos, MIWAK, Luiseno, Catalineno, Gabrielino, Mojave, and Maricopa Havasupai) of pentatonic scales wear without semitones, simple rhythms, a register of an octave in a cast singing, without tension. They also wear a controlled elevation of height of sound component structured into sections melody notes.
This area includes the eastern United States and Canada and is the Mississippi River to Atlantic; it is distinguished by the unique use of antiphonal or responsorial structure by North American Indians. The songs are complex rhythmically, with frequent changes of meter, shouts and pentatonic scales anhemitonic (without semitone).
Given the impracticality of field and the importance of Indian population before the arrival of Spaniards and Portuguese (and French and Dutch), a large number of mixed race and Indians were included in vast colonial empire, unlike those in North who were decimated.We must distinguish the pre-Columbian music (remaining in Amazonian tribes) folk music (mestizo in Andean regions and pampas) although both are not interpreted Native Americans or their descendants. Among the folk music, he is also having been influenced by the massive importation of black slaves (and cultures), especially in Brazil.
The ritual declamations are also considered singing, as well as tribal hymns referring. There are also courtesy singing healing songs, dance songs and popular melodies inspired immigrants.Music plays an important social role of oral transmission of culture of tribes and keeping their identity - it remains questionable, however, since the first written reports are due to immigrants.
Tradition tells how its inherited deities, rituals branded the creator or their tribe. Although the styles and customs are different, its a common fact among the tribes; it's the link between music and power: that staff first musician, but also that of song or the rituals. Many instruments, music or songs are for men or women, who are often extra singers.
This area includes Alaska, the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut and Greenland, populated by Inuit who are not considered a Native Americans people first. Inuit is simple; it is good to share including a rare playful throat singing on this continent, melodies restricted to register a sixth, third of prominences, declamatory or repetitive effects with recitatives and more complex rhythmic hardly formed by a drum accompaniment on frame or box drum.
This simple songs are similar to that of "Great Basin" with a strophic form, the use of falsetto, the tritone or tetratonic scales and melodic intervals typical of fourth or a fifth. Pueblo sing monophonies low, slow and complex (in five sections divided into phrases. With the Hopi and Zuni, the Taos Pueblo have one of richest music of continent, employing a variety of musical scales (hexatonique or heptatonic) a register of two octaves. The music of Pimas and Papagos is quite similar.
The Yumans (Pomos, MIWAK, Luiseno, Catalineno, Gabrielino, Mojave, and Maricopa Havasupai) of pentatonic scales wear without semitones, simple rhythms, a register of an octave in a cast singing, without tension. They also wear a controlled elevation of height of sound component structured into sections melody notes.
This area includes the eastern United States and Canada and is the Mississippi River to Atlantic; it is distinguished by the unique use of antiphonal or responsorial structure by North American Indians. The songs are complex rhythmically, with frequent changes of meter, shouts and pentatonic scales anhemitonic (without semitone).
Given the impracticality of field and the importance of Indian population before the arrival of Spaniards and Portuguese (and French and Dutch), a large number of mixed race and Indians were included in vast colonial empire, unlike those in North who were decimated.We must distinguish the pre-Columbian music (remaining in Amazonian tribes) folk music (mestizo in Andean regions and pampas) although both are not interpreted Native Americans or their descendants. Among the folk music, he is also having been influenced by the massive importation of black slaves (and cultures), especially in Brazil.
The ritual declamations are also considered singing, as well as tribal hymns referring. There are also courtesy singing healing songs, dance songs and popular melodies inspired immigrants.Music plays an important social role of oral transmission of culture of tribes and keeping their identity - it remains questionable, however, since the first written reports are due to immigrants.
Tradition tells how its inherited deities, rituals branded the creator or their tribe. Although the styles and customs are different, its a common fact among the tribes; it's the link between music and power: that staff first musician, but also that of song or the rituals. Many instruments, music or songs are for men or women, who are often extra singers.
This area includes Alaska, the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut and Greenland, populated by Inuit who are not considered a Native Americans people first. Inuit is simple; it is good to share including a rare playful throat singing on this continent, melodies restricted to register a sixth, third of prominences, declamatory or repetitive effects with recitatives and more complex rhythmic hardly formed by a drum accompaniment on frame or box drum.
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