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CHIPPEWA MUSIC 



153 



Gegobina'mawikgn^ 1 



Kawln^ Do not weep 



Gocu^ 



Nlnda'nibosi^ 



I am not Koina; to die 



This song is widely known among the Chippewa. It is one of the 

 sweetest of all their love songs. In it we do not find the fancy of 

 youth but the deeper love and the nearness of the deeper sorrow. 



Analysis. — Although this song begins with a downward progres- 

 sion, it is more strongly marked by upward movement than many of 

 the songs. In this and in its plaintiveness lies its chief interest. 



Reference is made to song no. 200 (catalogue no. 145), in the section 

 on Red Lake reservation music, which shows a repetition of this song 

 by a singer on that reservation. 



No. 139. "He Must be Sorrowful" (Oataiogneno. iio) 



Sung by Ki^osf/wini'ni ("fioon hunter") 



VoiCK J — 76 

 Recorded without drum 



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Gi - na- ni - na-wen - da - mo- dog ga - ni - ci - wa - na - djT - gi - gad 



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me-gwa we-ski - ni - gi-yan e 



GinanFnaw6n^damodog^ He [or she] must be very sorrowful 



Ganiclwana^djlgad^ Since he [or she] so deceived and 



forsook me 



Me'gwa During 



We''skinigiyan^ My young days 



Analysis. — This, like no, 136, may be sung by either a man or a 

 woman. The song is chiefly interesting because of the flatted third 

 as an accidental. The expression of sadness by means of a minor 

 interval is not so characteristic of Indian music as of our own. 



