How to Build a Traditional Song With Ethel Makinen and Roby, Kassy, and Edward Littlefield This workshop will focus on how to compose and use Tlingit songs. A traditional story, How Raven Created Dance and a Kaagwaantaan song from Sitka, T’aaw Yaat X’asheeyí, will be used as examples to demonstrate how to present the history behind a song, traditional drumming, song calling, harmony and dance. Traditional form, story line, transcription of words and music, developing melody and harmony, and dance styles will be discussed. Questions and Answers afterward will allow participants to discuss issues on how new songs could be created today.
Learning Tlingit using the mentor/apprentice method (see Taff, Alice)
