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CHIPPEWA MUSIC — II 



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Analysis. — The tempo of this song is very slow, the metric unit 

 being a half note. The rhythmic unit occurs five times, as indicated. 

 The melody comprises the tones of the fourth five-toned scale, yet 

 the progressions are grouped about the minor triad with minor seventh 

 added. (See Nos. 133, 147, 151, 152, 153.) The several renditions 

 recorded show the rhythm unchanged but the intonation varying, a 

 glissando being frequently introduced. 



No. 155. MIde' Song 



Sung by Ki^miwun 



Voice J=72 

 Drum J =112 

 (Drum-rhythm similar to No. 2) 



(Catalogue No. 304) 



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Analysis. — Three renditions of this song were recorded at Waba'clng. 

 A few weeks later the phonograph record was played for a member of 

 the Mide'wiwin on the White Earth Reservation, who said that the 

 melody was correct, but that the words were not. As he was a 

 particularly good authority, the words arc omitted in the transcrip- 

 tion. The melody is simple, containing only the tonic triad and 

 sixth and moving along harmonic lines. Attention is directed to the 

 slow metric unit of the voice and the rapid unit of the drum. The 

 rhythmic unit is unusually long and its repetitions embrace the 

 entire song. 



