MISCELLANEOITS vSONGS 



Children's Songs 



The little girls of tho camp had thoir plays, which could scarcely 

 be called games. In one of these childish plays the girls stood one 

 behind another, each with her hands on the shoulders of the girl in 

 front of her. Then they w^ent around the village in a wavering lino 

 singing the following song, the words of which are not transci-ilKnl, 

 but which mean " the deer follow each other. " 



No. 215. Song of Little Girls' Play (a) (Catalogue No. 680) 



Sung l)y Yellow Haih 

 Voice J= 76 

 Drum not recorded 



Analysis. — This is an example of a song in which the first part is 

 sung only once, seeming to serve as an introduction to the musical 

 performance. Thus the song was sung as transcribed and the last 

 section was repeated four times. After a pause the song was recorded 

 again, the singer beginning with the repeated part and singing it 

 several times without a break in the tempo. Tho rhythmic unit is 

 short but clearly given. The interval of a fourth occurs six times, 

 forming about one-fourth of tho entire number of intervals. 



Another play which afforded much merriment was described by 

 Yellow Hair, who said that the little girls sat in a circle and each 

 girl, putting one hand over the hand of the girl who sat next to her, 

 lightly pinched the hand near the WTist. The tickling sensation 

 could be endured only a few seconds before the little girls all fell over 

 in a state of helpless laught<>r. Almost immediately the play was 

 resuuKul, and the song sung again, to be interrupted before it was half 

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