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present volume). The two songs in Bulletin 45 and No. 125 in the 

 present volume are songs of the moccasin game, No. 31 is a war song, 

 and No. 53 the song before a boys' fight. The character of these 

 songs suggests a correspondence between the mental state of the 

 singer and the initial intervals of the songs. The tonality of the 

 present song is minor, but the tonic does not appear until the ninth 

 measure, the opening being based on the major third, which consti- 

 tutes the upper part of the tonic triad. This openuig is noted in 

 five other songs of the present series (Nos. 1, 34, 83, 94, 120). Four 

 of these are songs of war or of dances connected with war and one 

 concerns thunderbirds. In a less marked degree it occurs in the fol- 

 lowing songs in Bulletin 45: Mde' songs Nos. 51, 54, 59, 69, 79, and 

 war song No. 130. 



At the close of this song we find the progression 8-7-8, which 

 represents the descent of a whole tone to the seventh of a minor key 

 and return to the tonic. This progression at the close of a song 

 occurs in 9 other songs of various classes of the series of 340 (see 

 Nos. 19, 126, 150 ui Bulletin 45 and Nos. 50, 85, 100, 119, 124 of the 

 present volume). This close of a song is frequently found in the 

 ancient music of the white race, especially in old English Plain Song. 



This melody contains no rhythmic miit, but the phrase in the 

 8th measure reappears in the 14th and in part of the 15th measure 

 with a change of accent, a variation which gives character to the 

 rhythm of the song as a whole. The metric unit was maintained 

 with less regularity m this than in the majority of the songs. 



The second song concerning this fierce fight calls to mind the grief 

 of the Sioux. Odjib'we said he remembered the Sioux women fol- 

 lowing them across the river, crying, and cursing the Chippewa. 



No. 10. *'At Ca'gobens' Village" 



Sung by OdjIEb^we 



(Catalogue No. 337) 



Voice J= 100 

 Drum J= 108 

 ( Druin-rhytlim similar to No. 3) 



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