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Traditional Inuit music, the music of the Inuit, has been based on drums used in dance music as far back as can be known, and a vocal style called ''katajjaq''〔(Interviewing Inuit Elders - Glossary from Nunavut Arctic College )〕 (Inuit throat singing) has become of interest in Canada and abroad. Characteristics of Inuit music include: recitative-like singing, complex rhythmic organization, relatively small melodic range averaging about a sixth, prominence of major thirds and minor seconds melodically, with undulating melodic movement.〔Nettl (1956, p. 107)〕 The Copper Inuit living around Coppermine River flowing North to Coronation Gulf have generally two categories of music. A song is called ''pisik'' if the performer also plays drums and ''aton'' if he only dances.〔ARIMA, E.. The Eskimo Drum Dance. ARCTIC, North America, 27, jan. 1974. Available at: ==Cultural role== Traditionally Inuktitut did not have a word for what a European-influenced listener or ethnomusicologist's understanding of ''music'', "and ethnographic investigation seems to suggest that the ''concept'' of music as such is also absent from their culture." The closest word, ''nipi'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=nipi )〕 includes music, the sound of speech, and noise. (Nattiez 1990:56) Until the advent of commercial recording technology, Inuit music was usually used in spiritual ceremonies to ask the spirits (see Inuit mythology) for good luck in hunting or gambling, as well as simple lullabies. Inuit music has long been noted for a stoic lack of work or love songs. These musical beginnings were modified with the arrival of European sailors, especially from Scotland and Ireland. Instruments like the accordion were popularized, and dances like the jig or reel became common. Scots-Irish derived American country music has been especially popular among Inuit in the 20th century. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Inuit music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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