The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Polynesian chant tradition · 1st millennium BCE–

Hula takes Polynesian chant’s genealogy-and-dance job — mele, drum or gourd, gesture as the verse — and names it as a Hawaiian school (kahiko).

Influence

Hula

practice · 1st millennium–

Also called hula kahiko, hula ʻauana

Hawaiian chant-dance: mele with ipu or pahu, gesture as the verse, kahiko and later ʻauana wings. It hears Polynesian chant for the genealogy-and-dance chant job recoded as a named Hawaiian school. Empty extra Received/Given is historically checked: ʻauana guitar stays on this node. Himene leftover as a missionary-harmony sibling, not a parent. Paniolo/Mexican guitar leftover as incoming kit for ʻauana, not a Canción mexicana parent. Tourism leftover as a stage billing, not a child. Lakalaka and haka leftover as Polynesian siblings, not children.

Listen

  1. Mele hula (kahiko) Hawaiian hula tradition (traditional) YouTube
  2. Kaulilua Hawaiian chant-dance tradition (traditional)
  3. Aloha ʻOe (later ʻauana repertory) Liliʻuokalani / hula ʻauana (1878) YouTube
  4. Kalākaua-era hula Hawaiian court revival (1880s)
  5. Hula kahiko (Merrie Monarch) Hawaiian hālau tradition (living) YouTube

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Polynesian chant → Hula

form and structureperformance practicefunction and contextinstrumentationstrength: highscholarly consensus1st millennium–19th centuryoraldancepedagogy

Mechanism

Hula takes Polynesian chant’s genealogy-and-dance job — mele, drum or gourd, gesture as the verse — and names it as a Hawaiian school (kahiko). Strength high. Himene leftover as a missionary-harmony recoding, not a parent of hula. ʻAuana leftover as a later guitar wing on the hula node.

Evidence

Hawaiian mele-hula as East Polynesian chant-dance named locally (Grove).

Debate

Whether hula simply is Polynesian chant. The triangle-wide chant-dance job is the umbrella’s; the named Hawaiian school is the recoding this node tracks.

Mediators

community: Hawaiian chanters and hālau