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Bunun People

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The best-known traditional Bunun music is a chorus called “Pasibutbut” (written in Standard Chinese as “eight-part harmony,” among other forms). Originally a song praying for a bountiful harvest at occasions such as the millet sowing festival (“Minpinan,” sowing festival) each February, it uses a choral method in which several to over ten men form a circle and gradually layer slightly different scales.

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