Indian Story and Song From North America (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Court, United States. Supreme

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451017200 ISBN 13: 9781451017205

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2024

Synopsis

PREFACE. At the Congress of Musicians held in connection with tlle Trans-JI,1£sstssippi Ezpost'tion at Omaha in July, 18<)8, several essays upon the songs of the North Atnerican Indians were read, in illustratio1t of which a number of Omaha Indians, for the first time, sa1zg their 1tai£ve melodies to an audience largely Co'ntposed of trained music£ans. This unique presentatt'on not only demonstrated the sct"entific value of these abort"ginal songs in the study of the development of 1ftusic, but suggested their availability as themes, novel and cha1'acteristic, for tIle A merican composer... It was felt that this availabil£ ty would be greater if the story, or the ceremony wht'ch gave rise to the song, could be k1'tOW1t, so that, in developing the the'me, all the movements might be consonant with the circumstances that had i1zspired the motive. In response to the expressed desire uf many musicians, I have here given a number of songs in thelr matrix of stor),

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; STORY AND SONG OF THE HE-DHU/-SHKA; STORY AND SONG OF ISH/·I-BUZ-ZHI; STORY AND SO!{G OF THE LEADER ·; ; THE OMAH A TRIBAL PRAYER · · ·; STORY AND SONG OF THE BIRD'S NEST ·; A TRYSTING LOVE-SONG · · · ·; STORY AND SONG OF THE DEATHLESS VOICE; STOR Y AND SONG OF ZONI·ZI-MON-DE ···; LOVE-SO:-JG Poetical Transcription by Miss E D; Proctor · · ; STORY AND SONG OF THE VREN; THE OMAHA FUNERAL SONG · ·; STORY AND SONG OF THE MOTHER'S Vow; A LOVE-CALL · · · ·; A GAME SONG FRO~l THE NORTH-WEST COAST; STORY AND SONG OF THE INDIAN COQUET; AN OLD MAN'S LOVE-SONG; STORY OF THE WEI_TON SONG; A PAWNEE LOVE-SONG · · · ·; STORY AND SONG OF A "vVARRIOR ·; THE MOCKING-BIRD'S SONG · ·; A SONG OF THE GHOST DANCE; SACRED SONGS OF PEACE; COMFORTING THE CHILD ·; · ·; ; MUSIC IN INDIAN LIFE · · ; THE RELATION OF STORY AND SONG; 3; 14; 2r; 26; 30; 34;

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The present book, Indian Story and Song from North America (1900), was inspired by enthusiasm for Native American music generated at the Congress of Musicians held in connection with the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, July 1898.

About the Author:

Alice C. Fletcher, the foremost woman anthropologist in the United States in the nineteenth century, is also the author, with Francis La Flesche, of "A Study of Omaha Indian Music" and the two-volume "Omaha Tribe," Both titles are available as Bison Books. Helen Myers is the coauthor of "Folk Music in the United States: An Introduction,"

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1451017200
• ISBN 13: 9781451017205
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 142