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TETON SIOUX MUSIC 



301 



Analysis. — It is interesting to compare this with other songs con- 

 cerning the horse, not only in this group, but in the songs of war (Nos. 

 138, 139, 140, 145). The tempo is slower, and the rhythm is not the 

 galloping rhythm of some of the other songs. There is in it a little of 

 the dignity and solemnity which seems always present in the mind of 

 the Sioux when he sings of the dawn. The drum is a rapid tremolo. 

 Two renditions were recorded, wliich are identical in all respects. 

 Tlie song contains only the tones of the minor triad and fourth. Of 

 the intervals 65 per cent are major seconds, and the trend of the 

 melody is downward from the twelfth to the tonic. 



No. 110. "Horses Are Coming" 



Sung by Brave Buffalo 

 Voice J — 72 

 Dri M J~ 1.32 

 Drum-rbytlim similai" to No. 19 



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(Catalogue No. 605) 



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Ta -te o - u - ye to - pa kii] suq-ka - wa-kaq waij-zig - zi 



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WORDS 



tate' oii^ye to'pa kir) the four winds are blowing 



^uqka^wakag wagzig^zi some horses 



aii' welo^ are coming 



Analysis. — Two renditions of this song were recorded; these are 

 alike except that the second is slightly lower in pitch. It has been 

 noted that some singers \v\R pause after the first rendition of a song, 

 and then begin a second rendition on exactly the same pitch as the 

 first, while others vnR begin slightly higher or lower. This song con- 

 tains no rhythmic unit, but the song as a whole has a rhythmic com- 

 pleteness, which is interesting. The first and last phrases resemble 

 each other in some of the count-divisions, notably in the first triple 

 measure. 



