Follow the accompanying Active Listening guide as you listen to the Hymn of the Native American Church. What are the musical features of “peyote style” exemplified in the hymn of the Native American Church? (See also transcription of melody in Worlds of Music, Transcription 2.5, p. 64.)

What will be an ideal response?

• The melody is made up of only two note values, one long, the other short.
• The pitches of the melodic phrases move down in a descending direction.
• There is a rattle/drum accompaniment, but the melody is harmonically unaccompanied and consists of vocables (wordless syllables).