Music 220 Class Period 9 Outline
Discussion on film Discovering American Indian Music (call no. ML 3557 .D5)
role of music
in Native American society?
quantity of music?
what uses are there for music?
how is music tied to other art forms like dancing?
What
instruments
do you see?
what Hornbostel & Sachs categories are represented?
How is music
organized
?
textures (voices and instruments)
how are melodies shaped?
what texts are used?
harmony?
Relation to Environment
does the music relate to the environment, and if so how?
Texts
in Native American Music
some songs have translatable texts
others use non-lexical syllables called
Vocables
THESE ARE NOT NONSENSE SYLLABLES!
pathogenic; used due to emotional and aural effect
Lanelle Stevenson lecture
Worlds of Music Examples
: No. 1,
Sioux Grass Dance Song
for dancing, a war dance, but now done at Pow-wows
regular beat but not regular meter
pulsing as a vocal technique