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English 12 Public

Basics of Native American music history.

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What are the 3 common Native American instruments?

drums, rattles, flutes

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What are vocables?

untranslatable syllables

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What are 2 types of Native American music?

work songs, ceremonial dance music, songs to accompany games, medicine songs, lullabies

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Where do some Native American's believe that their music originally comes from?

Spirits and animals taught the songs to them in their dreams.

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What subjects are Native American music often about?

the earth, stories of past warriors, history

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In Native American music, the pitches usually go in which direction?

descending/down

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What are medicine songs?

songs sung to the spirits in order to heal somebody

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About how many pitches re typically in a Native American song?

4-5

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What are work songs?

songs that are sung while doing work, in order to pass the time and be more productive

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What are some examples of vocables?

ya, daa, weh

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True or False: All the Native American tribes have some musical characteristics that are common among many of the tribes.

True

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Where was the Lakota tribe originally located?

Minnesota

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