cantillation

• Koran cantillation - with the ancient African musical vocabulary.
• The cantillation was done sometimes by one division alone, sometimes by both divisions in unison, or one division would answer the other a responsive chanting that was termed haawe aku, haawe mai_--"to give, to return Ellis gives a quotable description of this hula, which he calls the "hura ka raau Five musicians advanced first, each, with a staff in his left hand, five or six feet long, about three or four inches in diameter at one end, and tapering off to a point at the other. —  Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
• The cantillation was done sometimes by one division alone, sometimes by both divisions in unison, or one division would answer the other, —  Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
• In a performance of this hula witnessed by an informant the chorus of dancers was composed entirely of girls, while the kumu operated the nose-flute and at the same time led the cantillation of the mele. —  Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
• From the first it was evidently destined to enact a role different from that of the old cantillation; none the less the musical ideas that came in with it, the air of freedom from tabu and priestcraft it breathed, and the diatonic scale, the highway along which it marched to conquest, soon produced a noticeable reaction in all the musical efforts of the people. —  Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula

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