Guests: Maria Shakka Tláa Williams, musical ethnologist. Judith Daxootsu Ramos, language Steven Langdon. anthropologist. A sketch of Tadeo Haenke drawn by Vincenz Raimund Grüner, an artist and illustrator who lived in Vienna.
Three scholars have triangulated the sounds of Lingít singing through sheet music written down by Tadeo Haenke and recordings of elders singing. Haenke, a Czech botanist on the Malaspina expedition, was also an artist and a harpsichord player.
Musical notation for a Lingít song that Tadeo Haenke heard during the Malaspina’s expedition to Yakutat in 1791. Haenke’s sheet music is housed at the Museo de America in Madrid.
