MUNM 3213 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Heavy Brush Dance songs: - Answers - -Region: California
-Purpose: To heal a child who is sick.
-religious in character, slower in tempo, wordless (vocables), sung by men only.
-Hupa, Yurok, Karok tribes perform this dance.
-Must be performed 3 times each before moving onto a different song.
Light Brush Dance songs: - Answers - -Region: California
-Instruments: deer hoof rattles.
-Purpose:To heal a child who is sick.
-Genre: not religious.
-Roles: 1 Lead female vocalist.
Male singers act as the Rhythmic Ostinato (grunting).
-Musical attributes:
Text and Vocables,
Use of female vocals,
Upbeat tempo.
-Hupa, Yurok, Karok tribes perform this dance.
-Listen for the song to repeat 3 times. You will hear the song stop, then starts again.
Heavy and light songs must be performed 3 times each before moving onto a different
song.
Stomp Dance - Answers - -Region: South East.
-Instruments: turtle shell rattles, stomping of feet.
-Purpose: Keep the capital corn religion thriving.
-Genre: vocables, text, including some English words. Shouts mark changing parts of
the song
cycle.
-Roles: A male vocal and dance leader, a male chorus, a female lead shell shaker.
Other men and women dance along in a circle.
Women's Shuffle Dance (Eskanye) - Answers - The woman's shuffle dance is from the
North East region, specifically the Saint Lawrence Lowlands. The shuffle dance is a
social dance performed by Haudenosanee people. The shuffle dance is one dance that
goes with Earth Songs. This shuffle dance is one of four Sustenance Dances that are
performed a little after midwinter. These songs are performed to celebrate the earth and
individual beings. Women gather at "sings" to share new songs with one another and to
, create new songs. The songs are usually funny and light-hearted in nature. Like the
name suggests, this is a woman's dance. However, men are traditionally the lead
singers and are accompanied by rattles or a water drum.The lyrics of these social songs
are vocables and sometimes text. The tempo is moderate and the women move in a
clockwise circle while the dance steps are a shuffle with the right foot and then the left,
while their feet stay close to the ground.
Hamat'sa Dance - Answers - -Region: Northwest Coast.
-Instruments: Whistles and drums.
-Purpose: exercise evil spirit.
-Roles: all men, singing powerfully.
-Musical attributes: Tremelo-drum roll.
Mountain Spirit Dance - Answers - -Region: Apache (Southwest)
-Instruments: Water drums, rattles,
-Purpose: bring about healing,all about nature, respect.
-Genre:
-Roles:Crown Dancers
-Musical attributes: Instructed by Mountain Spirits. duple meter.
Bird Songs - Answers - -Region: California
-Instruments: Gourd rattles
-Purpose: Celebrates the belief that the Cahuilla arrived here long ago in migratory flight
- not as birds, but like birds.
-Genre: social
-Roles: Male singer
-Musical attributes: repeated phrases. Creation story
Heleluyun Yvhikvres - Answers - -Region: Southeastern Woodlands
-Instruments: None
-Genre: Religious, Hymn
-Roles: men and women
-Musical attributes: sung in unison
Buffy Sainte-Marie - Answers - -Region: California
-Instruments: Mouth bow
-Songs: Cripple Creek, "Bury my heart at wounded knee"
XIT - Answers - -70's Rock band.
-Region: Southwest
-Songs: Plight of the Redman, "Relocation"
Heavy Brush Dance songs: - Answers - -Region: California
-Purpose: To heal a child who is sick.
-religious in character, slower in tempo, wordless (vocables), sung by men only.
-Hupa, Yurok, Karok tribes perform this dance.
-Must be performed 3 times each before moving onto a different song.
Light Brush Dance songs: - Answers - -Region: California
-Instruments: deer hoof rattles.
-Purpose:To heal a child who is sick.
-Genre: not religious.
-Roles: 1 Lead female vocalist.
Male singers act as the Rhythmic Ostinato (grunting).
-Musical attributes:
Text and Vocables,
Use of female vocals,
Upbeat tempo.
-Hupa, Yurok, Karok tribes perform this dance.
-Listen for the song to repeat 3 times. You will hear the song stop, then starts again.
Heavy and light songs must be performed 3 times each before moving onto a different
song.
Stomp Dance - Answers - -Region: South East.
-Instruments: turtle shell rattles, stomping of feet.
-Purpose: Keep the capital corn religion thriving.
-Genre: vocables, text, including some English words. Shouts mark changing parts of
the song
cycle.
-Roles: A male vocal and dance leader, a male chorus, a female lead shell shaker.
Other men and women dance along in a circle.
Women's Shuffle Dance (Eskanye) - Answers - The woman's shuffle dance is from the
North East region, specifically the Saint Lawrence Lowlands. The shuffle dance is a
social dance performed by Haudenosanee people. The shuffle dance is one dance that
goes with Earth Songs. This shuffle dance is one of four Sustenance Dances that are
performed a little after midwinter. These songs are performed to celebrate the earth and
individual beings. Women gather at "sings" to share new songs with one another and to
, create new songs. The songs are usually funny and light-hearted in nature. Like the
name suggests, this is a woman's dance. However, men are traditionally the lead
singers and are accompanied by rattles or a water drum.The lyrics of these social songs
are vocables and sometimes text. The tempo is moderate and the women move in a
clockwise circle while the dance steps are a shuffle with the right foot and then the left,
while their feet stay close to the ground.
Hamat'sa Dance - Answers - -Region: Northwest Coast.
-Instruments: Whistles and drums.
-Purpose: exercise evil spirit.
-Roles: all men, singing powerfully.
-Musical attributes: Tremelo-drum roll.
Mountain Spirit Dance - Answers - -Region: Apache (Southwest)
-Instruments: Water drums, rattles,
-Purpose: bring about healing,all about nature, respect.
-Genre:
-Roles:Crown Dancers
-Musical attributes: Instructed by Mountain Spirits. duple meter.
Bird Songs - Answers - -Region: California
-Instruments: Gourd rattles
-Purpose: Celebrates the belief that the Cahuilla arrived here long ago in migratory flight
- not as birds, but like birds.
-Genre: social
-Roles: Male singer
-Musical attributes: repeated phrases. Creation story
Heleluyun Yvhikvres - Answers - -Region: Southeastern Woodlands
-Instruments: None
-Genre: Religious, Hymn
-Roles: men and women
-Musical attributes: sung in unison
Buffy Sainte-Marie - Answers - -Region: California
-Instruments: Mouth bow
-Songs: Cripple Creek, "Bury my heart at wounded knee"
XIT - Answers - -70's Rock band.
-Region: Southwest
-Songs: Plight of the Redman, "Relocation"
