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46 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETEDSTOLOGY [Bull. 165
No. 32.
"In the west is the home of the raingods"
Voice J = 88
Drum J = 88
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(Catalog No. 1919)
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Translation
There in the west is the home of the raingods,
There in the west is their water pool,
In the middle of the water pool is the spruce tree that they use as a ladder.
Up from the water the raingods draw the crops which give us life,
East from there, on the place where we dance, they lay the crops,
Then up from that place the people receive crops and life.
Analysis.—A count division of eighth notes occurs almost without interruption
in this melody. The phrase designated as a rhythmic unit occurs five times and
provides a basis for studying the rhythm of the song as a whole. Attention is
directed to the measures in double time that begin with the same count divisions
as the unit, and to a measure in 7-8 time that resembles the rhythmic unit, also
to the final measure which contains a different arrangement of the count divisions
which occur in the unit. The song contains 70 intervals, 31 of which are minor
thirds and 23 are whole tones, next in frequency being the fourth which occurs
11 times. The melody contains all the tones of the octave except the sixth and
has a compass of nine tones.