Saturday, December 6, 2014

Guide To Native American Drums For Sale

By Claudine Hodges


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.

Pre-Columbian music had a special destiny because if it disappeared in state with the great cultures of continent exterminated by the conquistadors, it has been preserved in very isolated pockets of territory in small tribes, and within large Indian minority remaining as obviously having been influenced by European culture so much that we should speak more properly of hybrid music to him.

Archaeological research has demonstrated the existence of North Indian music in seventh century, but the first written records go back only to time of conquistadors and the first academic studies began in nineteenth century. Vocal music is generally syllabic and can solo, choir or responsorial, in unison or more rarely in polyphony. It's accompanied by drums, rhombus and blades whose rate increases metric. Among the text songs (often interspersed with syllabic singing), there are secret (for ceremonies) and public (for history, crops, accreditation, etc.).

This genre is characterized by extreme vocal tension, a record of nearly an octave with a strong use of perfect fourth in tetratonic scale and descent make up the melody. This area includes the desert area of Utah, Nevada and Oregon (with the Paiutes, Utes, Shoshones, Modoc and Klamath).

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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