Timbres of Music (Vocal & Instrumental) sustaining the several Moods/Sentiments for worship-services, achieving trances, enhancing dreaming
timbre |
mood/sentiment |
expository exemplification |
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chanting voice |
inditing |
low-toned (usually male) for contemplating animal-deities |
singing voice |
eating |
high-toned (usually female) for icaro-hymning to plant-spirits |
shrill-toned wind-instrument |
sleeping |
shalm (shawm) for general appeal to dreamless/dream immaterial worlds |
clear-toned wind-instrument |
trancing |
stone flute (in Japan), accordion (in Madagascar) for spirit-possession |
plucked string-instrument |
serenading |
mandolin (in Italy and in Spain) |
bow-played string-instrument |
dancing |
rebek (in Iran etc.) |
tympanic percussion |
in absence of spices from diet |
or in ritual to worship deities governing the spice-sentiments |
other percussion (xylophone, gongs, etc.) |
in absence of visual art |
or in ritual to worship deities governing the artistic sentiments |
Tympanic (drum) percussion is characteristic of African and of Siberian ritual worship, for inducing advent of particular possession deities; or (as, in the Shaking-Lodge of the Cree) of a series of particular deities. The drum is usual in cultures lacking spices; whereas adequate comesting of spices is able uphold the sentiment-mood level above any need for drumming to feel the mood-excitation necessary to invite the divinities from their worlds to come for their being entertained by performance by mortals. But drumming (so-called "metal" music) could as well be used in ritual performance especially in honor of spice-plant divinities, to indicate the parallelism of result of spice-ingestion with result of spiceless drumming.
Icaro-hymning (for the ayawaska-c^akruna combination) would be social way of telepathizing with spirits of entheogenic plant-species divinities, parallel with private inducing of hypnosis in individual plant-spirits.
[written Mar 2015]