Sound Gallery - Native American Music

Dancers and musicians perform at a Hethu'shka Society concert at the Library of Congress.

Library of Congress (Digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcomaha.0371)

• Traditional Native American music

  
  

  Sound recording of traditional Native American music

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  Library of Congress

  Audio Transcript

  Chanting and drumming of traditional Native American music.

Spectrogram of Native American music. Spectrograms are graphs that visualize sounds. The brightness of the colors shows sounds’ amplitude (loudness) across different frequencies (pitches), shown from bottom to top, and over time, from left to right. Note the difference between the loud, low-pitched regular drumbeat and the higher-frequency harmonics of the human voices

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