[Cultivate], to study, practise, and improve.
[Colonists], persons who leave their native land and settle in some distant country.
[Dirge], a mournful or funeral song.
[Dialogue], two people speaking in turn, conversation between two.
[Interrupt], to stop for a time.
[Placid], quiet, gentle, peaceful.
[Resume], to take up again.
[Clansmen], the men belonging to a clan.
[National music], music that has grown up gradually among the people of a country.
[Originally], in the beginning.