Aborigeenid (Inglise keeles)
At a corroboree Aborigines interact
with the Dreamtime through dance, music and costume. Many ceremonies act out events from the
Dreamtime. Many of the ceremonies are sacred and people from outside a community are not permitted
to participate or watch.
The Australian Aborigines used a limited variety of implements to make musical sounds. The
didgeridoo (wind instrument a bit like trumpet) is probably the best known, but others included rattles,
clapping sticks and two boomerangs clapped together. However they do not appear to have used drums,
flutes and whistles. The melodies, tunes, harmonies and rhythms of Aboriginal music included
traditional ceremonial songs that were handed down from generation to generation. It was very
important in Aboriginal thinking, to replicate the songs that had been first played and sung by the
ancestors in the Dreamtime. When the traditional music and songs were used, living men considered