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CHIPPEWA MUSIC— 11 



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No. 52. Song Before the Boys' Fight (Catalogue No. 279) 

 Sung by Odjib'we 



Voice J = 63 



Recorded without drum 



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Analysis. — This melody, like the preceding, is based on the fifth 

 five-toned scale with D as the tonic. The song is mmor in tonality 

 and very slow in tempo. The subdominant triad (G-B flat-D) 

 is prominent in the middle section whUe the minor third on the tonic 

 (D-F) characterizes the first and last sections. A slow metric unit 

 in songs of controlled excitement is noted also in Nos. 30, 51, 103, 161. 



Voice J =96 

 Recorded without drum 



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No. 53. Little Girls' War Song 



Sung by Odjib^we 



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(Catalogue No. 280) 



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Nln-a-bem ga-mo-kwa-na-wind 



nina^em my husband 



gamo^kwanawind^ who was wounded 



Wliile the boys held their sham battles the little girls mimicked 

 the woman's share in war. The aged wamor remembered well 

 the boys' contests and also the song which the little girls sang, 

 giving several uniform renditions of it, but in his description of 

 the girls' play there lingered a trace of the boy's condescension. 

 Odjib'we said merely that "the little girls were danciug and jumping 

 around." 



Analysis. — This melody contains three peculiarities which rarely 

 occur in Chippewa songs. First, it begins and ends on the same tone. 

 This feature is found in only 1 1 songs (3 per cent) of the entire series 

 of 340. The examples found in Bulletin 45 are Nos. 132, 142, 149, 



