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Appendix — Tongan Music - Savage Island: An Account of a Sojourn in Niue and Tonga

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Appendix — Tongan Music - Savage Island: An Account of a Sojourn in Niue and Tonga
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The music of the Tongans was inseparable from the dance (by which I mean the rhythmic movements of any part of the body), and it therefore esteemed rhythm before melody or harmony. There were two principal forms, the Me'e-tu'u-baki (dance standing up with paddles) and the Otuhaka (song, with gestures). Since the inculcation of English hymnsingi...

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1984
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Basil C. Thomson
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