AUSTRALIA - Aboriginal - Songs from the Northern Territory cd3

CLICK ON starinar TO GET MORE TRIBAL AND INDIGENOUS MUSIC. BE A MEMBER OF A GLOBAL SeeDeRS TRIBE. MoRE CoMING SooN. ENJoY! Songs From the Northern Territory 3: Music From Yirrkala and Milingimbi, North-Eastern Arnhem Land Artist/Collector: Alice Moyle Label Information: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS): AIAS 3 CD Media Type: CD Year: Recorded 1963; Released 1997 Availability: AIATSIS Notes: For the purpose of music description, Eastern Arnhem Land of the Northern Territory is divided here as follows: the north-eastern sector including offshore islands; the eastern sector extending along the coast south as far as the Roper River; and the Groote Eylandt archipelago, north-west of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Field recordings reproduced on this compact disc were collected in the north-eastern sector at Yirrkala on the Gove Peninsula and Milingimbi on the Crocodile Islands off the north coast. The Aboriginal communities at these two localities, together with the people on Galiwin'ku (previously called Elcho Island) have, in the anthropological literature, been referred to as the Murngin (WL Warner) and Wulamba (RM Berndt). More recently they have become known as the Yolngu, from a local word meaning 'people'. The artistic talents of the Yolngu were soon to become widely known and admired. Their bark paintings are now to be found in many Australian galleries and in galleries overseas. Two of their leading painters in the early 1960s, both of the Rirratjingu clan, are to be heard as singers in this series of compact discs (see discs 3 and 4). Yolngu children excelled as singers and dancers at the Darwin Eisteddfod, an annual 'top end' event which, in the 1960s, drew many Aboriginal entrants from communities within and beyond Arnhem Land. Since that time, there have been changes. Mission stations and government stations are now Community Centres administered by the Aboriginal people themselves and many have preferred to live more or less permanently on outstations situated within traditional territories or homelands. Item characteristics of Eastern Arnhem Land clan songs performed and recorded in 1960s-all of which were sung by men-are summarised here as follows: (1) a didjeridu accompaniment which utilises two tones differing widely in pitch (the interval between the higher or overblown tone and fundamental often sounding close to a tenth but varying according to the shape and length of the hollowed branch); (2) a narrow vocal range of pitch (compare them, for instance with Western Arnhem Land songs) which rarely exceeds a fifth or sixth and may be less than a second; (3) clearly audible song words which are translatable, meaningful and appropriate to relevant clan territories and related myths; and (4) the occurrence of an unaccompanied vocal termination (UVT), or termination of a song item by voice or voices alone, after the accompanying instruments have ceased. Good examples of this fourth item characteristic are to be heard on this disc (Track 11) and disc 4 (Track 1). Song refrains may consist of repeated strings of words and syllables, a prolonged single syllable or a repeated pattern of vocal sounds (for example, bird calls). These calls are incorporated into the particular sectional or phraselike structure of many item sequences performed in Eastern Arnhem Land. As part of the music survey mentioned above, several visits were made to the north-eastern sector and a fairly comprehensive coverage was obtained of songs by men, women and children. I also made recordings of a number of ceremonial events. An extract from one of these is to be heard in tracks 1-5 on this disc. Manikay.com

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