Serrah's Get Away

       The Maori are Polynesians living in New Zealand, and they date back to the 11th century. Originally, the Maori people were hunters and warriors, but they soon turned to the agriculture way of living. As of today, the Maori mainly live in the cities, but they stay closely to their tribes. Their villages are fortified with in the center the marae, an open space on which the whare hui, or the meeting house is located. Which this building is very symbolic body of their ancestors. With watch towers that have 'pahu' in them. The 'pahu' is a wooden plate that functions like an alarm gong.      As of today, their music is mainly vocal. It can be divided into two categories: the recitatives and the songs. When it comes to the recitatives have no fixed pitch organization and the tempo is much higher than the song's tempo.  From Christianity the use of instruments was kind of neglected. The Maori used to use aerophones and idiophones, and of course recently with the com

With this blog, I wanted to learn about Japans traditional music. It is such a wonderful island, and I wondered, where may Japan learn their music? With Japan being a big island, they developed most of their music themselves, but they have had influences from other countries as well. Japan gain their influences through Korea and China. Korea served as a bridge with Chinese musical ideas. Their music can be considered a combination of vocal or instrumental. It is full of emotional expressions, and many instruments originated in China and Japan adapted them to their local needs.     When it comes to Japanese traditional music, it's referred to it historical folk music. These are two forms both being the oldest form known as: shomoy (Buddhist chanting) and Gagaku (theatrical court music). Gagaku is the oldest musical traditional in Japan. It includes two styles known as kigaku (instrumental music) and seigaku (form of vocal music). Shomyo translate to 'voice' and 'wisdom&#