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 Micronesian music -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Micronesian music is influential to those living in the (A country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986) Micronesian islands.
The music is based around (Myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person) mythology and ancient Micronesian (Any customary observance or practice) rituals.
Micronesian folk music is, like (additional info and facts about Polynesian music) Polynesian music, primarily vocal-based.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/micronesian_music.htm   (100 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Music of French Polynesia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
French Polynesia came to the forefront of the world music scene in 1992, with the release of The Tahitian Choir's recordings of unaccompanied vocal Christian music called himene tarava, recorded by French musicologist Pascal Nabet-Meyer.
This form of singing is common in French Polynesia and the Cook Islands, and is distinguished by a unique drop in pitch at the end of the phrases, which is a characteristic formed by several different voices; it is also accompanied by steady grunting of staccato, nonsensical syllables.
In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Music-of-French-Polynesia   (174 words)

  
 Micronesia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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