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TETON SIOUX MUSIC 



115 



No. 12. Song of Victory over the Sacred Pole (Catalogue No. 486) 



Sung by Lone Man 

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WORDS (addressed TO THE SACRED POLE) 



misna'la wima^ca yelo'' " I only am a man " 



ehe^dog wi<5a''yake sni ye. . . you falsely implied 

 nake'' de'ya ila^le now you cry 



Analysis. — The rhythmic unit of this song is loss interesting than 

 the rhythm of the song as a whole, which has a decided "swing." The 

 melody begins on the fifth above the tonic and ends on the third 

 in the lower octave. Many songs have a greater range than this, but 

 few have a compass of a tenth in three measures, as occurs in this 

 song with the introduction of the words. This part of the song 

 was sung quite accurately, but in the measures containing the last two 

 words and in the corresponding measures of the first section of the 

 song the intonation was so unsteady as to make transcription diffi- 

 cult. It has been frequently noted among the Sioux, as among the 

 Chippewa, that large intervals are sung with more accuracy than 

 small ones. The drumbeat was in half notes, representing a very 

 slow tempo. In the double measures the drumbeat coincided quite 

 regularly with the corresponding tone of the song. 



