Describe the texture of the Iroquois Quiver Dance—how is the melody being treated? What is the “response”?
What will be an ideal response?
• A solo voice (the "leader") sings a text phrase, the "call."
• A group of voices answers the leader's call by singing a "response," "yowe hi ye ye!"
• This important texture or manner of treating a melody is common to many music-cultures throughout the world and is known as call-and-response.
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