Music Cultures Oceania

Question 1

The Three Parts of Oceania

Answer 1

Melanesia Micronesia Polynesia

Question 2

Melanesia

Answer 2

Dark Islands

Question 3

Micronesia

Answer 3

Small Islands

Question 4

Polynesia

Answer 4

Many Islands

Question 5

Square Mileage of Oceania

Answer 5

Roughly 3 million sq. miles

Question 6

Ritual Spiritual activities include…

Answer 6

Calling on animals and natural elements for guidance, protection, and subsistence.

Question 7

Important instruments of Hawaii

Answer 7

Ukelele Steel Guitar DrumsVoiceHula

Question 8

Steel guitar

Answer 8

Using a roughly 3-inch steel bar to slide over the strings of a guitar. Modern steel guitars don’t use regular guitars for the sliding effect, but now placed on the players lap or on legs.

Question 9

Pahu

Answer 9

Big drum using sharkskin heads. Used in many ritual contexts such as births and memorial services, but today is used to preserve Hawaiian ethnic identity.

Question 10

Kilu

Answer 10

Small drum made out of coconuts

Question 11

Characteristics of Hawaiian vocals

Answer 11

VibratoOne pitch per syllable Portamento (sliding) Open vowel soundsUse of Falsetto Oral Tradition Practices Chants, called mele

Question 12

Mele

Answer 12

A poetic form of song that tells a story

Question 13

Outback or Bush

Answer 13

Interior of Australia that mainly consists of vast plains and large desert regions

Question 14

Aborigines

Answer 14

Australia’s well know indigenous population who live in the interior of Australia

Question 15

Animism

Answer 15

Belief systems in which natural phenomena as well as both animate and inanimate objects are considered to possess a spirit

Question 16

Dreamtime

Answer 16

Ancestor Spirits took human or other forms, and gave shape to land, plants, animals, etc. Once they formed these parts of the Earth, they changed shaped into land, animals, etc.

Question 17

Musical Characteristic of Australia

Answer 17

Vocal exclamations: Storyteller shouting words Didjeridu: Long tree branch. Player uses circular breathing, growling, humming, to change the sound Clapsticks: Wood sticks that usually accompany the Didjeridu

Question 18

Kundu (Papa New Guinea)

Answer 18

Hourglass shaped drum

Question 19

Susap (Papa New Guinea)

Answer 19

“twangy” timbre, almost as if the singer is singing through a voice modulator