"Ceremonial sabio duet" Bosavi: Papua New Guinea

This music is very interesting and would be a fun style of music to analyze in class due to the complexity of its simplicity. The sounds of this music almost remind me of the dissonant traditional music of Bosnia. A shaker begins the piece setting up the rhythmic foundation for the reminder of the ceremonial song. Then a male voice enters beginning and ending every two measure phrase on the same pitch. While he's holding this ending pitch, much like a drone, the second voice enters in call and responce fashion and also ends on the same pitch. Even though it's apparent that they're both singing the same pitch at this point, the vibrancy in their voices makes it sound microtonal. This is the amazing part. We now have the tonic being sung that doesn't sound very stable at all due to the "out of tuneness" to western trained ears that resolves to the first note of a suspension! But, due to the instability of the previous note, this new note doesn't feel like it needs to be resolved to be stable. So, we have a phrase group consisting of a PAC every two measures except for the last one that ends on something even less stable and we have tonics that are RESOLVING to the first notes of suspensions! This is so weird to me but does create a very trance like ceremonial quality.