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    The document discusses music traditions in Oceania and Australia. It notes that vocal music predominates in Oceania due to the scarcity of instruments. Circular breathing allows wind instruments to play continuously by inhaling through the nose while exhaling through the mouth. Hawaiians use music to maintain their culture and express their identity within American society, such as through drum-dance chants. Music is also important to Australian Aboriginal culture as it relates to their creation beliefs known as The Dreaming. The document then discusses how music can play a role in courting rituals across cultures. Finally, it outlines some of the influences Christian missionaries have had on traditional Oceanic music, including introducing instruments like the ukulele and shaping vocal styles

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    The document discusses music traditions in Oceania and Australia. It notes that vocal music predominates in Oceania due to the scarcity of instruments. Circular breathing allows wind instruments to play continuously by inhaling through the nose while exhaling through the mouth. Hawaiians use music to maintain their culture and express their identity within American society, such as through drum-dance chants. Music is also important to Australian Aboriginal culture as it relates to their creation beliefs known as The Dreaming. The document then discusses how music can play a role in courting rituals across cultures. Finally, it outlines some of the influences Christian missionaries have had on traditional Oceanic music, including introducing instruments like the ukulele and shaping vocal styles

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    Mahalvah Lou Ruiz-Torres Sept.

    19, 2017

    Oceania: Voices of Land and Sea


    Questions to Consider:

    1. Why would vocal traditions predominate in Australia and Oceania?


    - Oceania music is primarily made of vocal, and vocal traditions predominate in Oceania and
    Australia because instruments are only few and scarce. Music is considered a link to the
    spiritual plane, and specialists in ritual-associated music tradition.
    2. How do you circular breathe? Why is this technique useful when playing certain musical
    instrument?
    - Air is expelled through the lips by tongue and cheek muscle. As the performer exhales, he
    simultaneoulsly inhales through his nose to replinish the air reserve stored in the cheeks.
    3. How do Hawaiians use music to express their unqie identity within American culture?
    - Most examples of Hawaiian music today are influenced by European music. They express
    their identity by doing the Hawaiian Drum-dance chant. The songs play an important role to
    maintain the indigenous language, spiritual beliefs, history and social customs.
    4. Why is music important to the Australian Aborigine’s cosmology, The Dreaming?
    - It has a scared element. The Dreaming tells of an ancient mythodology past when the earth
    was merely a featureless swirl of creative energy. At that time, the ancestral spirits roamed
    the planet creating life and shaping the topographical features of the earth.
    5. How might musical instruments be used in courting practices? Does your culture have any
    courting rituals? If so, does music play a role in them?
    - The instrument is the “speech surrugate” in courting. The man is able to say things to the
    woman that might otherwise be considered inappropriate. The instrument also provides
    impunity from rejection.
    - Yes, we call it Harana – wherein men introduced themselves by singing underneath the
    window of the women at night.
    6. Name some ways in which Christian missionaries have influenced traditional music in Oceania.
    - Ukelele from Hawaii, a small chordophone modeled after the guitar, only appeared in
    Hawaii after the colonial period began.
    - Vocal choirs, the use of harmony reflects European musical influences.
    - Youthful vocal timbre – a bit nasal and somewhat strained, even though many of the male
    voices are forceful and full.

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