Primitive Papuan Music
p. 48 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, Dec. 2.
TRAVELLERS among the Fuyughe tribe, inhabiting the hilly district between Yule Island and the central mountain range of Papua, have often been struck by the music-loving nature of the people. When they are camped at night on the flank of some steep ridge, the natives’ voices are always to be heard from across the valley, their notes ringing clear and melodious through the still mountain air.
Father Sorin, a priest of the Mission of the Sacred Heart, recently completed a collection of the Fuyughe songs which he sent to France, where it roused con siderable interest. A thorough musical training at the Paris Conservatoire en abled him to record the notation and to write a series of descriptive notes about the primitive songs.