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CHIPPEWA MUSIC II 



No. 170. "Work Steadily" 



Sung by Main^gans 



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(Catalogue No. 270) 



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WORDS 



ayangwa^misin^ be very careful 



tciano'ldyun' to work steadily 



gegama^kamigo^ U am afraid they will take you away from 



niau J me 



Many of the C'hippewa love songs can be sung by either a man or a 

 woman, but tliis is a woman's song. 



Analysis. — This song is slow in tempo and mournful in character. 

 The tonality is minor, and the melody contains all the tones of the 

 octave except the second. The subdominant is especially prominent 

 and the song has a pleading quality. This peculiarity is noted in 

 other love songs also (see Nos. 106, 109, 110). The time was not 

 rigidly maintained on the eighth notes, which occur on the unaccented 

 parts of the measure. 



Pipe Dance Songs 



The pipe dance was said to be the principal "good time dance" of 

 the early Cliippewa. It is very old and, like all other dances, is 

 believed to have come from the manido'. In this dance a man 

 carried a pipestem and his body was supposed to represent a pipe. 

 The dancer never rose erect, but took a crouching or squatting posture, 

 trying to assume the form of a pipe as nearly as possible. Many 

 contortions of the body were used, and the antics of the dancers were 

 considered very amusing. Only one man danced at a time. When 

 he had finished dancing he presented the pipestem to another, who 

 was obliged to accept it and dance; he transferred also the rattle 

 which he carried. This procedure was continued until all the men 

 had danced. Some were awkward, and their frantic efforts to 



