MUNM 3213 Final Exam questions n
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Heavy Brush Dance songs: - correct answer ✔✔-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: - correct answer ✔✔-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 - correct answer ✔✔-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) - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔-Region: Northwest Coast.
-Instruments: Whistles and drums.
correct answers rated A+ 2025/2026
Heavy Brush Dance songs: - correct answer ✔✔-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: - correct answer ✔✔-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 - correct answer ✔✔-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) - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔-Region: Northwest Coast.
-Instruments: Whistles and drums.
