Dene music
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The Dene and their direct language relations live in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, as well as some parts of California, and through to the Apache and Navajo lands in the South Central United States. Their music includes modern rock and country songs, jigs and reels, work songs, community dances, numerous kinds of religious songs and lullabies.
Dene folk music uses melodies similar to European scales with the coloration of blue notes. According to scholar Michael Asch, Dene music includes "a melodic scale, melody, and metric rhythm".[1] Syncopation is common, as are pulsating vocal styles. Melodies generally follow a descending pattern. Many songs, especially Drum Dances, ended with a vocal glissando and percussion break, along with a spoken thank you (mahsi). Vocables are very common.
Songs are typically composed anonymously, though there are no taboos on anyone writing most songs. Only two composers are well-remembered, Chief Victor (Deline on Great Bear Lake) and Yatsule (born at Tulita in 1879).
Further reading[edit]
- Asch, Michael (1988). Kinship and the Drum Dance in a Northern Dene Community. University of Alberta Press; Boreal Institute for Northern Studies. ISBN 0-919058-73-6. OCLC 18749031. Search this book on
- Keillor, Elaine (1988). "La naissance d'un genre musical nouveau : fusion du traditionnel et du 'country'". Recherches amérindiennes au Québec (in français). 18 (4): 65–74. ISSN 0318-4137.[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ Moore, Patrick; Wheelock, Angela (1990-01-01). Wolverine Myths and Visions: Dene Traditions from Northern Alberta. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-8161-5. Search this book on
- ↑ Lindsay Levine, Victoria, ed. (2002). Writing American Indian music : historic transcriptions, notations, and arrangements. American Musicological Society. pp. 150–151. ISBN 0-89579-494-2. OCLC 53125793. Search this book on
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