The Music Culture of Avatar

Based off my less then legal acquisition of the sound track for the movie Avatar I would have to say that the difference between the film score and the actual music of the Na’Vi’s music would be the inclusion of vocals and the increase of African tribal instruments (it seems that aerophones also appeared quite often during these parts). The actual film score on the other hand used orchestrated numbers with more classical western instruments such as the piano. Now it should be mentioned that these two cultures tend to mix with each other quite well and that the tracks may start off as a film score change to Na’Vi music and finally return to being a film score before the track has finished.

Also while this may a bit off the topic question I noticed myself being reminded of the opening track to Myst IV while listening to some of the tracks from this film (such as Gathering All The Na'Vi Clans For Battle). Of course after listening to them back to back it is quite obvious that they rely on different devices however I can’t shake the fact that these two music cultures (well I don’t know if an intro can be called a culture) seem to share some roots.