Polyphonies des Iles Salomon Polyphonies of the Solomon Islands /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Zemp, Hugo.
Format: Audio
Language:Austronesian
Published: Paris : Chant du Monde : Distribution, Harmonia Mundi France, p1990.
Series:Collection du Centre national de la recherche scientifique et du Musée de l'homme.
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Item Description:The 1st-7th works performed by an ensemble of pan pipes (called rihe mumu, also the title of the 1st piece), the 8th-14th and 19th-23rd by women's voices, and the 15th-18th and 24th-25th by mixed voices. The 8th-14th and 21st-22nd pieces are rope (round dance) songs, the 15th-18th lalaa songs, the 19th-20th and 24th-25th sitting dance songs.
The vocal parts of the pieces recorded in Guadalcanal either wordless or sung in Nginia; songs from Savo sung in Savosavo.
Additional title on container: Guadalcanal et Savo = Guadalcanal and Savo.
Compact disc.
"New edition of [analog] record LDX 74663 [orig. issued in 1978 or 1979], revised and augmented..."--Program notes, p. 31.
Program notes by Hugo Zemp in French with English translation (32 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
Physical Description:1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.