What time characteristic (meter) do you hear in CD 1:8 that is ...

[Arii_bell]

What time characteristic (meter) do you hear in CD 1:8 that is different from the other traditional Native-American music you have heard so far (excluding CD 1:7, the country-western song Folsom Prison Blues)?
 
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Question 2

Shizhan, a Navajo Circle Dance song, is from what source?
 
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[duke02]

Answer to Question 1

 Shizhan', is in a compound meterrepeating groups of very fast threes: 123 123 123 . . . The other examples of traditional Native-American music from North America heard so far in this chapter are not in any definite meter.

Answer to Question 2

 from the public part of the Enemyway ceremony known collectively as Nd' songsthese songs are the hit tunes of traditional Navajo life.

[Arii_bell]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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