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Title: Native American Music


1
Native American Music
  • The first music of America

2
About Native American Music
  • Origins of Native American Music is traced to the
    time of creation
  • Given by the Creator and spiritual beings
  • Most music is vocal
  • No harmony
  • Irregular rhythm
  • No concept of pitch or intonation
  • Accompanied at least by drums

3
  • Songs belong to the community
  • Cannot be performed by outsiders without
    permission
  • It is taught orally to preserve songs from one
    generation to the next
  • Music has intrinsic value
  • Performances are evaluated by feelings of
    connectedness

4
What the Music is About
  • Communicate with supernatural powers
  • Recount history
  • Singing for definite results

5
Types of Music
  • Sacred Narratives
  • Describe the origins of musical instruments,
    songs, dances and ceremonies
  • Lullabies
  • Traditional Songs
  • Handed down from generation to generation
  • Medicine Songs
  • Received in a dream
  • Modern Songs
  • Influence of European culture
  • Hero Songs
  • Often old
  • Love Songs
  • Influenced by the music of whites and considered
    as corrupt

6
Instruments
7
Drums
  • Simple Skin Drum
  • One tanned skin tied to four stakes that are
    planted in the ground
  • Frame Drum
  • Tightly stretched hide on a frame that is sewn
    together with a carrying handle
  • Water Drum
  • Kettle that is partially filled with water with
    hide stretched over it
  • Square Drum
  • Made from a wooden box

8
Rattles
  • Container Rattles
  • Made of gourd, turtle shell, rawhide and horn
    filled with seeds or pebbles.
  • Deer Hoof Rattles
  • Deer hooves attached to a stick

9
Other Instruments
  • Flutes
  • Look similar to a recorder
  • Whistle
  • Rasp
  • A notched stick that is scraped by another stick
  • Fiddle
  • Based on the violins carried by European settlers
  • Clapper
  • A stick that is partially split in half on one
    end and struck against another object.

10
Pennsylvanian Tribes
  • Erie
  • Iroquois
  • Shawnee
  • Munsee
  • Lenape
  • Susquehannock
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