'Are'are music Shaping Bamboo
Film et Vidéo
- Auteurs : Zemp Hugo ;
- Editeurs : Watertown Documentary Educational Resources [distrib.] ;
- Date d'édition : 2011
- Sujets : 'Are'are (peuple des îles Salomon) -- Musique -- DVD, Musique traditionnelle, Ethnomusicologie, Chansons, Instruments à vent, Flûtes de pan (famille d'instruments), Bambous, Instruments à percussion, Films ethnographiques DVD Salomon
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 2 DVD monoface simple couche (2 h 22 min, 34 min), : Coul., son.
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Version en anglais ; Version restaurée ; Tournage : Iles Salomon en 1975 et 1977
Résumé
Indiqué sur la jaquette : Are'are music : This film is a fascinating documentation of the traditional musical culture of the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands, of an exceptional beauty and complexity in its instrumental and vocal polyphonies. It shows in detail all the playing techniques, body movements of performers, and spatial coordination of music ensembles and dancers. This comprehensive inventory of all the twenty musical genres of the 'Are 'are people is structured according to native classification. ; Indiqué sur la jaquette : Shaping Bamboo : For the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands, the most valued music is that of the four types of panpipe ensembles. With the exception of slit drums, all musical instruments are made of bamboo; therefore the general word for instruments and the music performed with them is 'bamboo' ('au). This film shows the making of panpipes, from the cutting the bamboo in the forest to the making of the final bindings. The most important part of the work consists in shaping each tube to its necessary length. Most 'Are'are panpipe makers measure the length of old instruments before they shape new tubes. Master musician 'Irisipau, surprisingly, takes the measure using his body, and adjusts the final tuning by ear. For the first time we can see here how the instruments and their artificial equiheptatonic scale—seven equidistant degrees in an octave—are practically tuned.