MUNM 3213 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Heavy Brush Dance songs: - Answers - -Region: California
-Purpose: To heal a child who is sick.
-religious in character, slower in tempo, wordless (vocables), sung by men only.
-Hupa, Yurok, Karok tribes perform this dance.
-Must be performed 3 times each before moving onto a different song.
Light Brush Dance songs: - Answers - -Region: California
-Instruments: deer hoof rattles.
-Purpose:To heal a child who is sick.
-Genre: not religious.
-Roles: 1 Lead female vocalist.
Male singers act as the Rhythmic Ostinato (grunting).
-Musical attributes:
Text and Vocables,
Use of female vocals,
Upbeat tempo.
-Hupa, Yurok, Karok tribes perform this dance.
-Listen for the song to repeat 3 times. You will hear the song stop, then starts again.
Heavy and light songs must be performed 3 times each before moving onto a different
song.
Stomp Dance - Answers - -Region: South East.
-Instruments: turtle shell rattles, stomping of feet.
-Purpose: Keep the capital corn religion thriving.
-Genre: vocables, text, including some English words. Shouts mark changing parts of
the song
cycle.
-Roles: A male vocal and dance leader, a male chorus, a female lead shell shaker.
Other men and women dance along in a circle.
Women's Shuffle Dance (Eskanye) - Answers - The woman's shuffle dance is from the
North East region, specifically the Saint Lawrence Lowlands. The shuffle dance is a
social dance performed by Haudenosanee people. The shuffle dance is one dance that
goes with Earth Songs. This shuffle dance is one of four Sustenance Dances that are
performed a little after midwinter. These songs are performed to celebrate the earth and
individual beings. Women gather at "sings" to share new songs with one another and to
