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

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Analysis.—This melody is based on the second 5-toned scale and consists of
3 periods. About one-third of the intervals are larger than a minor third, eight
being fourths, an interval often associated with motion. Attention is directed to
the drumbeat in the 5-8 and 3-8 measures, being similar to that in the preceding
song of the Flower dance.
Just before noon the "country chief" calls from the plaza telling
the women to take their gifts of food to the meeting place of the
dancers. The women "take nice baskets of food to make the men
happy." The Acoma have no fresh fruit and this feast consists of
dried fruits and bread, with freshly killed mutton.
The dancers return to the plaza after their noontime feast. A man
walks beside the girl, carrying the drum. Everyone sings—the girl,
the drum carrier, and the boys—as they return to the plaza. Their
song concerns a visit to other pueblos and tells what food they were
given. The words with period A were sung twice.