- Pueblo music
Pueblo music includes the
music of theHopi ,Zuni ,Taos Pueblo , San Ildefonso, Santo Domingo, and many otherPuebloan peoples , and according toBruno Nettl features one of the most complexNative American music al styles on the continent. Characteristics include common use of hexatonic andheptatonic scale s, variety of form, melodic contour, and percussiveaccompaniment , melodic range averaging between an octave and a twelfth, with rhythmic complexity equal to the Plains Indians musical sub-area.Nettl cites the
Kachina dance songs as the most complex songs and the music of Hopi and Zuni as the most complex of the Pueblo, while the Tanoans and Keresans musics are simpler and intermediary between the Plains and western Pueblos. The music of thePima and Papago is intermediary between the Plains-Pueblo and the California-Yumanmusic area s, with melodic movement of the Yuman, though including therise , and the form and rhythm of the Pueblo. (Nettl 1956, p.112-113)Work song s are found in Pueblo music, but are otherwise mostly unknown among Native American folk music (Nettl, 1965, p. 152).ources
*Nettl, Bruno (1956). "Music in Primitive Culture". Harvard University Press.
*Nettl, Bruno (1965). "Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents". Prentice-Hall, Inc.
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