Songs are a fundamental part of Indigenous Australian cultures. They are vehicles for transmitting experiences about a region, including the stories and ancestral entities from the creation. Yet relatively little is known about the musical characteristics of songs from many parts of Australia. In this article we present the first musical analysis of traditional songs of the Anmatyerr people of central Australia. We analyse a selection of songs from recordings of a women’s song set owned and performed by the landholders of Arrwek, an estate that straddles the Anmatyerr-speaking and Warlpiri-speaking regions. We analyse three basic acoustic elements of a central Australian Aboriginal song: rhythmic text, pitch, and the relationship between them. Our analysis finds that these have much in common with Warlpiri songs, despite their Anmatyerr geographic affiliation.

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澳大利亚中部Arrwek的土著妇女歌

歌曲是澳大利亚土著文化的基本组成部分。它们是传递有关一个地区的经验的工具，包括创作中的故事和祖先实体。然而，对来自澳大利亚许多地区的歌曲的音乐特征知之甚少。在本文中，我们将对澳大利亚中部Anmatyerr人的传统歌曲进行首次音乐分析。我们分析了Arrwek的土地所有者拥有和表演的女性歌曲集的录音中的歌曲选集，Arrwek是一个讲安玛特尔语和Warlpiri语地区的庄园。我们分析了澳大利亚原住民歌曲的三个基本声学元素：有节奏的文本，音高以及它们之间的关系。我们的分析发现，这些歌曲与Warlpiri歌曲有很多共同点，