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WORDS 



^ar)tt/ my beart 



mato'ke(5a<$a is different (see footnote, p. 120) 



wagma''yar)ka yo behold me 



dagte^ my heart 



mato'ke6a<5a is different 



heiya''ye waye^ I have shown it 



wazi^'yata from the north 



tate^ a wind 



hiyo^ ma aii^ wo comes to get me (cf. words of Nos. 41, 105; 



also footnote, p. 120). 



Analysis. — This song contains the tones of the fourth five-toned 

 scale. In structure it is melodic with harmonic framework, the tonic 

 chord being strongly in evidence throughout the melody. Concern- 

 ing the change of tempo see song No. 5. In this instance the phrase 

 indicated as the rhytlmiic unit of the song is long and not accurately 

 repeated. Three reasons seem to justify this: (1) the phrase forms the 

 rhythmic divisions of the entire song; (2) the phrase in every instance 

 opens with the same measure-divisions; (3) the note values of the 

 phrase are in some instances necessarily changed to conform to the 

 words. Two-thirds of the progressions are downward, and the song 

 contains only three intervals larger than a minor third. See plot of 

 .this melody on page 283. 



In this song we meet a strange phase of the life of a medicine-man. 

 Two Sliields, who recorded the song, said that "\^Tiite Shield used 

 to sing this song when he was worried or disappointed." Strangely 

 human is tliis little melody. Two Shields said also that when sing- 

 ing the song he would mention the direction on wliich the wind was 

 blowing that day, as "every man who performs ceremonies respects 

 the various winds." 



