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Show DENS MORE] NORTHERN UTE MUSIC 157 the east, the men with hand drums being in the center of the line. In front of the men were two circles of women dancers, one circle being inside the other.. The two circles moved in opposite directions, the inner one moving " with the sun." Each group of women had a leader, who wore a feather war bonnet. The leader of the inner circle was the wife of the chief, and only she was allowed to carry a scalp on a pole. The arrangement of the dancers is shown in the accompanying diagram ( fig. 13). At the conclusion of the Scalp dances it was customary to take the scalps to the chief. He had a large tipi with tall poles, and the scalps were fastened at the tops of these poles, where they remained undisturbed. No. 78. Scalp Dance Song ( a) ( Catalogue No. 760) Recorded by SINGER NO. 1 VOICE J = 96 Drum not recorded Analysis.- This song was twice recorded by the same singer, only one of the yecords being transcribed ( cf. Nos. 39 and 77). The repetition arose from an impression frequently noted among the Indians, that if the words are changed in a melody it becomes a different song. Thus, in the first instance, the singer said this was a song which he sang in the war dance when he brought home a captive woman, and, in the second instance, he said it was a scalp dance song. Tfee words were not taken in either rendition. A comparison of the two cylinders shows the pitch of the renditions to be the same. Five repetitions of the song were recorded the fijst time and six the second time. The differences in these 11 renditions are too slight to be of importance. In the first group the opening phrase was occasionally repeated, and in the second group the ending was occasionally changed in rhythm, and the fifth measure ( last two counts) contained quarter in place of eighth notes. Passing from this comparison to an analysis of the transcription, we note that the melody contains only the tones of the minor triad and fourth and in structure is melodic with harmonic framework. More than half the intervate are minor thirds, a majority of the remainder being major seconds. |