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3. DREAM SONGS AFTERWARD USED AS WAR SONGS OR OTHERWISE 



Like the other dream songs, these were said to have been composed 

 during a dream or on waking from a dream. Many of them are asso- 

 ciated with some animal which becomes the manido' of the dreamer. 

 The words of many of these songs suggest that the dreamer contem- 

 plates nature in a certain aspect so long and so steadily that he 

 gradually loses his owti personality and identifies himself with it. In 

 other instances he imagines that animals or objects in nature are sing- 

 ing and that he learns their songs. It has not been definitely ascer- 

 tained whether the singer imagines he repeats the melody or only the 

 words of such songs. 



All the dream songs are supposed to be spontaneous melodies, and 

 therein lies their chief importance in connection with the analytical 

 study of Indian music. 



No. 112. Song of the Trees 



Sung by Ga^gandac^ 



(Catalogue no. 206) 



Voice J= 100 



Drum 



120 



(Drum-rhythm similar to No. Ill) 



* 



l^iE^Sl^ 



No-diu e - ta nin-eo-tan 



m^^'^^^mm 



m. 



& 





;i 



Nodin'' The wind 



E^ta Only 



Ningotan^ I am afraid of 



Narrative. — The following explanation of this song was given by Main''&ns: The song 

 belonged to a certain man who sang it in the dances which were held before going to 

 war. When this man was a boy he had a dream and in his dream he heard the trees 



