Music of Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti, and Zuñi Pueblos - Flutopedia.com

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pueblo music
93
No. 65.
Corn-grinding song— Continued
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Translation
Great sun, great sun, look down on us children and on the mothers and young
maidens while they toil grinding our sacred blue corn.
Analysis.—This song is transcribed on the pitch of the opening measures. The
pitch was lowered gradually during period A and was found to be a semitone lower
in the second measure of period B, this pitch being maintained to the close of the
performance. The song is harmonic in structure and contains only the tones of
the major triad and sixth. The interval of a major third comprises 36 of the 75
progressions, while the interval of a fourth occurs only four times. The rapid
tones in the first ending were not sung in exact time, the transcription representing
them as nearly as possible. Each period has its own rhythm, and there is no
phrase that can be designated as a rhythmic unit.
HUNTING SONGS
In old times the Cochiti hunted the antelope and deer, and occasionally
the elk and bear, in addition to the buffalo. (Cf. description of
an antelope hunter who disguised himself as an antelope (Benedict,
1931, p. 200).)