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Scale over 5 octaves Pentatonic Scale - C Major. Indigenous music of North America, which includes American Indian music or Native American music, is the music that is used, created or performed by Indigenous peoples of North America, including Native Americans in the United States and Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples of Mexico, and other North American countries—especially ...
Māori music of New Zealand; Music of the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders of Australia; Music of the indigenous peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean; Native American music of the United States and Inuit, Métis and First Nation music of Canada; Sámi music of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia; Music of South India; Music of the ...
Native Americans in the United States had no indigenous traditions of classical music, nor a secular song tradition. Their music is spiritual in nature, performed usually in groups in a ritual setting important to Native American religion. It was not until the 1890s that Native American music began to enter the American establishment.
The Indianist movement was a movement in American classical music that flourished from the 1880s through the 1920s. It was based on attempts by classical composers to incorporate American Indian musical ideas with some of the basic principles of Western music, with the goal of creating a new, truly American national music.
Native American music was the focus of Nettl's early career, a typical subject for American ethnomusicologists of the mid-20th century. [6] He did field research in Montana on the Blackfeet people's music for his 1953 PhD dissertation; [ 8 ] [ 9 ] It was republished in 1954. [ 20 ]
Pueblo music includes the music of the Hopi, Zuni, Taos Pueblo, San Ildefonso, Santo Domingo, and many other Puebloan peoples, and according to Bruno Nettl features one of the most complex Native American musical styles on the continent.
American Indian opera is a subgenre of music of the United States. It began with composer Gertrude Bonnin (1876-1938), also known as Zitkala-Sa ("Red Bird" in Lakota ). Bonnin drew from her Yankton Dakota heritage for both the libretto and songs for the opera The Sun Dance .
The music is documented in Songs of the Pacific Northwest by Phil Thomas (1979), Washington Songs and Lore (written for Washington Centennial Commission in 1988) and The Rainy Day Songbook (published by Whatcom Museum of History and Art in 1978) both by Linda Allen. [4] Notable modern folk musician Phil Elverum is also from the Pacific Northwest.