Editing Punta (section)

==Instruments==
[[File:Músics al pororó 2015 01.JPG|thumb|Musicians in the pororó festival in the streets at [[Livingston, Guatemala|Livingston]], [[Izabal Department|Izabal]], Guatemala. December 2015]]
The music of punta involves responsorial singing accompanied by indigenous membranophones, idiophones, and aerophones.<ref name=Greene /> Membranophones are instruments that create sound through a vibrating skin or vellum stretched over an opening, as in all drums.<ref name=Virtual>{{cite web|title=Virtual Instrument Museum|url=http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/vim//cgi-bin/type.cgi|publisher=Wesleyan University|access-date=25 November 2013|year=2003}}</ref>   Idiophones are instruments that produce sound through the vibrating of a solid material that is free of tension, commonly found in shakers, scrapers, and xylophones.<ref name=Virtual /> Aerophones are instruments that create sound through vibrating air within a column or tube, like pipes and horns.<ref name=Virtual /> Other instruments used in the Garifuna culture include calabash rattles called shakkas (chaka) and conch-shell trumpets.

The two principle Garifuna instruments are single-headed drums known as the ''primera'' and ''segunda''.<ref name=Greene /> The ''primera'', or the lead tenor drum, is the smaller of the two. This drum is used as the drummer contrives a series of rhythms key to punta. The ''segunda'' is the bass drum. The drummer playing this instrument repeats a single duple-meter ostinato throughout the song. While the second drum plays steady, the first drum and the other instruments like the maracas and conch shell improvise solos similar to those in a jazz song.<ref name=Griffin>{{cite web|last=Griffin|first=Wendy|title=Punta's Names Show Different Origins|url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/arts/honduras/discovery_eng/art/dance/punta2.html|publisher=Stanford University|access-date=20 November 2013}}</ref>
The punta ritual for a wake is sung in Garifuna, with a soloist and a chorus. Although punta music may sound happy, the words can often be sad. One song can be translated as, "Yesterday you were well. Last night you caught a fever. Now in the morning you are dead."<ref name=Griffin />