Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Polyphony
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Oceania== Parts of [[Oceania]] maintain rich polyphonic traditions. The peoples of [[New Guinea Highlands]] including the [[Moni people|Moni]], [[Dani people|Dani]], and [[Yali people|Yali]] use vocal polyphony, as do the people of [[Manus Island]]. Many of these styles are [[Drone (music)|drone]]-based or feature close, secondal harmonies dissonant to western ears. [[Guadalcanal]] and the [[Solomon Islands]] are host to instrumental polyphony, in the form of bamboo [[panpipe]] ensembles.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jordania |first1=Joseph |title='Polyphonic regions of the world' in 'Why do People Sing? Music in Human Evolution' |date=2011 |publisher=Logos |page=36}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Kaeppler |first1=Adrienne L. |last2=Christensen |first2=Dieter |title=Oceanic Music and Dance |url=https://www.britannica.com/art/Oceanic-music#ref14334 |website=Britannica |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |access-date=7 August 2018}}</ref> Europeans were surprised to find drone-based and [[Consonance and dissonance|dissonant]] polyphonic singing in Polynesia. Polynesian traditions were then influenced by Western choral church music, which brought [[counterpoint]] into Polynesian musical practice.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jordania |first1=Joseph |title='Polyphonic regions of the world' in 'Why do People Sing? Music in Human Evolution' |date=2011 |publisher=Logos |page=35}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Kaeppler |first1=Adrienne L. |last2=Christensen |first2=Dieter |title=Oceanic Music and Dance |url=https://www.britannica.com/art/Oceanic-music#ref14339 |website=Britannica |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |access-date=7 August 2018}}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)