Travel Song

History

Travel songs originally began as Migration songs, with different repertoires for the travel toward the Sandibari Forests and the return home. Subjects covered a wide variety of topics and many surviving old examples are composed partially or entirely of nonsense words; the main star of the show was percussion: stamping of feet, banging of spears against ice, snow or rock, and so on.
The advent of migration into space changed the soundscape considerably. The echo of a ship's chambers and the distinct sound of metal has led to a flourishing in the types of percussion used in travel songs, many of which persist into the present day with the use of pipes or metal rods as instruments. Originally used for migration, the songs are now used to pass time on any particularly long voyage.

Execution

The travel song is primarily played, with chanting taking a back seat. Modern travel songs are played using pipes or long metal rods banged against the walls and floors of ships in a typically up-tempo beat, with the option of sliding one's palm, fingers, or claws along the pipe for flavor. Words may be utterly nonsensical, discuss migration, pertain to a number of Spacefarers' Superstitions, or discuss a number of other things.

Components and tools

Travel songs are sung to the rhythmic beating of a pipe against walls and floors, or in groups focusing on reconstructing and studying Stenza historical practices for various reasons, of a spear or staff against any surface, from snow and ice to rock to metal floors and walls.