Motif
ceremonial dance-song unity
ceremonial_dance_song_unity
A motif of the Enchanting Music and Sound Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes CHAPTER XIII / CHAPTER XIV / CHAPTER XV / CHAPTER XVI; lines 6784-6876 confidence: high
Songs are described as essential elements of dances and as marking dance character; the author says native poetic imagination is centered on relations of the sexes.
Songs are said to be essential to dances, music is described as almost entirely ceremonial, and rhythm is subordinated to dancing.
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