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====Shumian musical forms==== | ====Shumian musical forms==== | ||
Shumian music is based mostly on slow improvisation against a drone. The drone in Shumian music was traditionally produced by repeatingly plucking the strings of a special lute-like instrument called the ''ḍhàu'' and consisted of either just the tonic, or the tonic and dominant. | Shumian music is based mostly on slow improvisation against a drone. The drone in Shumian music was traditionally produced by repeatingly plucking the strings of a special lute-like instrument called the ''ḍhàu'' and consisted of either just the tonic, or the tonic and dominant. | ||
In modern times, the ''ḍhàu'' is used as a melody instrument, played with a bottleneck slide. | |||
There is no native tradition of vocal music in the Shumian culture. | There is no native tradition of vocal music in the Shumian culture. | ||