07:700:292 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ostinato, Work Song, Hemiola
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Africans had to change their home unlike the native americans who had lived here and didn"t have to move. This forced the african slaves to adapt and assimilate into the society that their masters had forced them to conform to. The african slaves already had differences by tribe and country which made this assimilation easier and made them more likely to do so. This is something that native americans didn"t have to do as much because this land belonged to them in the first place. The postal worker"s song from a western standpoint. A monophonic tune with western harmonic implications. It"s not homophonic because it implies a harmonic line a third up but the line, because it"s only a third up, it serves as a separate tune. The phrasing is similar to that of the native american hymn. The african side of the postal worker"s song. The rhythms aren"t created with actual instruments.
