DRUMS OF THE WORLD
New Guinea
Iatmul Drum New Guinea
Iatmul - Chambri Lake Drum / Trommel / Tambour Papua New Guinea / Papua Neuguinea
Music plays an influential role in the Chambri Lake region, particularly during rituals related to ancestor worship. Hand drums accompany clan songs performed at important community events. The drum sound represents spirit and ancestor voices. Drums were carved with an adze and hollowed out by a slow burning process. Small black pellets of beeswax, used for fine tuning the sound quality of the drum, are attached in a circular pattern around the center of the drum skin. Tuning is accomplished by heating the drum skin over fire.
Bibliography:
Ammann Raymond (1997) : Le rythme Kanak, Cahiers de musiques traditionnelles.
Bateson Gregory (1936) : Music in New Guinea. The Eagle 48.
Bogner Piet (1984) : Traditionelle Musikinstrumente aus Neuguinea. München, Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der Naturvölker.
Chauvet, Stephen (1930) : Les arts indigènes en Nouvelle-Guinée.
Collaer, Paul (1965) : Musikgeschichte in Bildern – Ozeanien. Musikethnologie1. Leipzig.
Barry Craig (Editor) (2011) : Living Spirits with Fixed Abodes - University of Hawai'i Press.
Fischer, Hans (1958) : Schallgeräte in Ozeanien. Sound-producing instruments in Oceania.
Friede, J. (2005) : New Guinea Art - Masterpieces of the Jolika Collection from Marcia and John Friede.
Gourlay Kenneth (1975) : Sound-Producing Instruments in Traditional Society.
Graf, Walter (1950) : Die musikwissenschaftlichen Phonogramme Rudolf Pöchs von der Nordküste Neuguineas.
Kelm, Heinz (1966) : Kunst vom Sepik.
Kunst Jaap (1931) : A Study on Papua Music.
Martinez-Jacquet, Elena; : Invocando a los espíritus : instrumentos musicales de Indonesia y Oceanía en la colección Helena Folch.
Neuhauss Richard (1911) : Deutsch-Neu-Guinea. Vol. I-III, Berlin, Reimer.
Niles Don (2006) : Drums, in P. Peltier and F. Morin (eds), Shadows of New Guinea, Art from the Great Island of Oceania in the Barbier-Mueller Collections.
Peltier Philippe, Markus Schindlbeck et Christian Kaufmann (éds), (2015) : Sepik. Arts de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée, Paris, Skira, Musée Du Quai Branly.
Reche Otto (1913) : Der Kaiserin Augusta Fluss, in Georg Thilenius (ed.), Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908-1910
Spearritt Gordon (1982) : The Pairing of Musicians and Instruments in Iatmul Society, Yearbook for Traditional Music 14.
Wirz Paul (1959) : Kunst und Kult des Sepik-Gebietes (Neu-Guinea) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung einer daselbst in den Jahren 1950 und 1953 erworbenen Sammlung, Amsterdam, Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen Amsterdam.
Music plays an influential role in the Chambri Lake region, particularly during rituals related to ancestor worship. Hand drums accompany clan songs performed at important community events. The drum sound represents spirit and ancestor voices. Drums were carved with an adze and hollowed out by a slow burning process. Small black pellets of beeswax, used for fine tuning the sound quality of the drum, are attached in a circular pattern around the center of the drum skin. Tuning is accomplished by heating the drum skin over fire.
Bibliography:
Ammann Raymond (1997) : Le rythme Kanak, Cahiers de musiques traditionnelles.
Bateson Gregory (1936) : Music in New Guinea. The Eagle 48.
Bogner Piet (1984) : Traditionelle Musikinstrumente aus Neuguinea. München, Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der Naturvölker.
Chauvet, Stephen (1930) : Les arts indigènes en Nouvelle-Guinée.
Collaer, Paul (1965) : Musikgeschichte in Bildern – Ozeanien. Musikethnologie1. Leipzig.
Barry Craig (Editor) (2011) : Living Spirits with Fixed Abodes - University of Hawai'i Press.
Fischer, Hans (1958) : Schallgeräte in Ozeanien. Sound-producing instruments in Oceania.
Friede, J. (2005) : New Guinea Art - Masterpieces of the Jolika Collection from Marcia and John Friede.
Gourlay Kenneth (1975) : Sound-Producing Instruments in Traditional Society.
Graf, Walter (1950) : Die musikwissenschaftlichen Phonogramme Rudolf Pöchs von der Nordküste Neuguineas.
Kelm, Heinz (1966) : Kunst vom Sepik.
Kunst Jaap (1931) : A Study on Papua Music.
Martinez-Jacquet, Elena; : Invocando a los espíritus : instrumentos musicales de Indonesia y Oceanía en la colección Helena Folch.
Neuhauss Richard (1911) : Deutsch-Neu-Guinea. Vol. I-III, Berlin, Reimer.
Niles Don (2006) : Drums, in P. Peltier and F. Morin (eds), Shadows of New Guinea, Art from the Great Island of Oceania in the Barbier-Mueller Collections.
Peltier Philippe, Markus Schindlbeck et Christian Kaufmann (éds), (2015) : Sepik. Arts de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée, Paris, Skira, Musée Du Quai Branly.
Reche Otto (1913) : Der Kaiserin Augusta Fluss, in Georg Thilenius (ed.), Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908-1910
Spearritt Gordon (1982) : The Pairing of Musicians and Instruments in Iatmul Society, Yearbook for Traditional Music 14.
Wirz Paul (1959) : Kunst und Kult des Sepik-Gebietes (Neu-Guinea) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung einer daselbst in den Jahren 1950 und 1953 erworbenen Sammlung, Amsterdam, Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen Amsterdam.