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[BULL. 53 



No. 125. Moccasin Game Song (Catalogue No. 410) 



Sung by E^niwub^e 



Voice J — 84 

 Drum J = 92 

 ( See drum-rhythm below ) 



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Drum-rhythm 



{r— N-5=:i- 



L M J^ JL,^JMJ ^= i^!J=j^-i 



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etc. 



Analysis. — This song is minor in tonality and contains the first, 

 second, third, fifth, and sixth tones of the diatonic minor scale, a 

 tone material occurring in only three other songs of the series of 340 

 (see Nos. 178 and 184 of Bulletin 45, and No. 83 of the present work). 

 This is of special interest, as the omitted tones are the same intervals 

 as in the fourth five-toned scale, which is major in tonality. The 

 melody begins with an upward progression of an octave (see Nos. 170 

 and 174 of Bulletin 45, and Nos. 9, 31, 53 of the present book); it 

 also begins and ends on the same tone (see No. 53). The rhythmic 

 unit is steadily repeated except in two measures in which the division 

 of the last count is changed, this slight change giving character to a 

 melody which otherwise would be monotonous. The entire song is 

 in triple time. Four renditions were recorded, the repetitions usu- 

 ally succeeding each other without a long closing tone. Such a tone 

 is indicated in the transcription, but appears only once on the pho- 

 nograph cylinder. 



