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MR.1959.22.2-A4
Basic facts:
| country |
province |
region |
village |
people |
group |
date |
collector |
| Namibia | | Nyae Nyae | | Bosjesmannen | | 1953 | |
Language and title:
original language: Khoisan
Musical composition:
| type | # performers | instrument (type) | singing voice |
| Group | 3 | - |
FEMALE | |
Characteristics:
general:
function: unknown
length: unknown
Performers:
unknown
Fragment:
not available online
Remarks:
"Bushman Music and Pygmy Music"
Reference Bushman Music. Musée de l'Homme 55 - 3
Bushmen, three women singing. Nisa ! na, an old medicine woman, and two other old women sing about the giraffe medicine music given to her in a dream by the great god who lives in the eastern sky.
Tempo:
|
| average | 118.98 |
| median | 120 |
| minimum | 103.45 |
| maximum | 136.36 |
| standaard deviation | 6.58 |
| regression factor | -0.08 |
|
Pitch:
Tessitura

Octave reduced tone scale

All pitch candidates

Melodic progress (fragment)