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TETON STOUX MUSIC 



299 



No, 108. "My Horse Flics like a Bird" (Catalogue No. 573) 

 Sung by Brave Buffalo 



Voice J ^ 84 

 Drum not recorded 



Ko - la mi - ta - Sui) - ke kitj-yaij 





gyi-f^r^^^^ s^is^ 



WORDS 



kola' friend 



mita'surike my horse 



kigyag' yag flies Like a bird 



ig'yagke lo as it runs 



Analysis. — This is one of the instances in which the signature indi- 

 cates the pitch of the tones as sung by the singer but does not imply 

 a "key" in the musical sense of the term. The song is classified as 

 '' irregular. " (See table on p. 305.) It will be noted that the progres- 

 sions of the first 12 measures are based on the major triad B-D sharp-F 

 sharp, yet the presence of E sharp makes it impossible to consider 

 that part of the song in the key of B. The remainder of the song sug- 

 gests the key of B minor. In the first part of the song Brave Buffalo 

 sang E sharp and D sharj), and in the latter part he sang E natural 

 and D natural, these tones being given clearly and unmistakably. 

 A comparison of the tone C, registered at the beginning of the cyHn- 

 der, with C on the piano, shows that the phonograph was properly 

 adjusted when the record was made, so that the change of i^itch is 

 not due to any slackening of speed in the recording machine, which 

 might have been the case if the machine had been partially run down. 

 Two renditions were recorded, wdth a pause and some conversation 

 between them, and the pecuharities of the first rendition were re- 

 peated exactly in the second. Tlie personality of the singer should 

 be taken into account in considering a song of marked pecuharity, 

 and Brave Buffalo, who made this record, was not a man given to 



