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CHIPPEWA MUSIC II 



117 



No. 36. Song of the Exhausted Warrior 



Suug by Odjib'we 



(Catalogue No. 367) 



Voice J = 84 



Drum J r- 104 



( Drum-rhythm similar to No. 2 ) 



e ba - ba - pi - ni - si - wa - gun ge - non -de - ci - nan 



g§^^ 



^S^ 



14— h^^g ^ a* 



e nin - ga - a - da - won- ge - yen 



ge - on - dji- da-go 



^^•—*-^±z^l ^t^^^iti^i -»-•- — ^—•^£j : 



ge-dn- dji- da -go 



^S^ 



baba'pini''siwa''gQn alas 



genon^decinan' I can not travel 



ningifada^wongen^^ I^ut I will borrow that 



geondji'dago^cinan'' by means of which I can arrive 



Analysis. — Three renditions of this song were recorded; these are 

 uniform in every respect. This uniformity is of interest, as the 

 rhythmic unit is long and irregular; it occurs three times without 

 variation. The remainder of the song contams fragments of the 

 unit, but no complete repetition. The song is minor in tonality and 

 is characterized by the sharped seventh, which is found but rarely 

 in the mmor songs under analysis. By this accidental the song is 

 more fully identified with what is commonly termed the minor scale. 

 The relation of the rhythm to the content of the song is worthy of 

 note, the effect of perturbation in the first part of the song being con- 

 trasted with the more regular rhythm of the latter part. 



1 Where no words appear in the music above, meaningless syllables were sung. 

 * A syllable is added to this word to make it conform to the music. 



