Describe three significant musical characteristics you hear in CD 1:3, “Sioux Grass Dance,” a traditional Sioux war dance. (Answers may vary.)
What will be an ideal response?
• piercing falsetto
• driving drumbeat separate from voice part
• pitches sliding down from high to low (portamento) at the ends of phrases
• mixture of solo and group singing
• text is meaningless syllables (vocables)
• repeating, melodic phrases that start on high pitches and then gradually descend to lower pitches ("high to low and back up again").
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