Title: Traditional Samoan music /
Authors: Moyle, Richard M.; Brigham Young University--Hawaii Campus.
Publisher: Aucklamd University Press ; In association with the Institute for Polynesian Studies,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Samoans Music History and criticism.; Folk music Samoan Islands History and criticism.
Contents: Foreword -- Orthography. (Musical orthography ; Linguistic orthography) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Musical ethnography. (Terminology for music structure ; Composition and ethnic identity ; Teaching ; Song poetry ; Song variations ; Obsolete songs) -- 3. Musical instruments. (Idiophones ; Membranophones ; Aerophones) -- 4. Solo songs. (The tagi of the fāgogo ; Medicinal incantations ; Lullabies ; Stylistic characteristics of solo songs) -- 5. Unison (and predominantly unison) song types. (Recreational songs ; Songs of ridicule ; Tattooing songs ; Stylistic characteristics of unison songs) -- 6. Responsorial (and predominantly responsorial) song types. (Songs to spirits ; Funeral ('āuala) songs ; Paddling songs ; 'O le solo ; Food homage (ta'alolo) songs ; Marriage songs (tini) ; Songs of praise (vi'i) ; Historical songs ; Work songs ; Stylistic characteristics of responsorial songs) -- 7. Responsorial (and predominantly responsorial) song types with dance. (Obsolete dances ; Extant dances ; Stylistic characteristics of dance songs) -- 8. Polyphonic songs -- 9. Summary analyses and conclusion -- Appendix: Post-European Samoan musical influence.