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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



BILL. 53 



No. 130. Dream Song (Catalogue No. 321) 



Sung by Awun^akum^igickun^ ("fog covering the earth") 



Voice J^r= 184 

 Drum J" = 152 

 ( Drum-rhythm similar to No. 2 ) 



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m 



-t^— h- 



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■hz 



i 



Analysis. — The metric unit of this song was difficult to recognize 

 in the tempo at which the song was sung. By greatly reducing the 

 speed of the phonograph it was possible to detect this unit, and the 

 relative note-values were thus transcribed. The metric unit is 

 i' = 184, which is unusually rapid. The tempo of the original rendi- 

 tion was determined m the usual manner, that is, by adjusting the 

 speed of the phonograph at 160 revolutions per minute, so that the 

 tone C as registered on the cylinder corresponded to the same tone 

 as given by the pitch pipe. The metric unit was steadily maintained 

 throughout the two renditions of the song, which were identical in 

 every respect. The song is melodic in structure and has a compass of 

 twelve tones, beginning on the twelfth and ending on the tonic. 



