. Bulletin. Ethnology. densmoreI MENOMINEE MUSIC No. 58. Song for Working Magic Recorded by Katherine Laughret 89 (Catalogue No. 1636). rfjif|fe#^ FREE TRANSLATION The pipe that I use to do this Analysis.—This song is based upon three intervals of a third, oc- curring one below another. The song opens -with the descending interval E-C sharp, followed by C sharp-A, and A-F sharp, with a return to A, which is regarded as the keynote. With one exception the intervals are minor thirds. The song contains three periods, a structure that has been noted in several other songs said to have been receive
. Bulletin. Ethnology. densmoreI MENOMINEE MUSIC No. 58. Song for Working Magic Recorded by Katherine Laughret 89 (Catalogue No. 1636). rfjif|fe#^ FREE TRANSLATION The pipe that I use to do this Analysis.—This song is based upon three intervals of a third, oc- curring one below another. The song opens -with the descending interval E-C sharp, followed by C sharp-A, and A-F sharp, with a return to A, which is regarded as the keynote. With one exception the intervals are minor thirds. The song contains three periods, a structure that has been noted in several other songs said to have been received in dreams. A more frequent structure consists of four rhythmic periods. THE MEDICINE LODGE In its essential aspects the medicine lodge (Mita'win) of the Menominee is identical wdth the Grand Medicine Society (Mide'wiwin) of the Chippewa.^^ On attending the Menominee medicine lodge it was found that the songs were practically the same as those used by the Chippewa, from the musical standpoint, and that many songs contained Chippewa words. For that reason no songs of the medicine lodge were recorded among the Menominee and the subject did not receive extended consideration. The first account of the Menominee medicine lodge was written by Dr. Edwin James in 1826,^^ and Hoffman began his investigation in 1890, the results of Hoffman's study bemg embodied in his mono- graph on the Menominee Indians. A later study by Alanson Skinner gives the hitherto unknown origin myths and the rituals of the Menominee. This authority states that "the society seems to be of Algonkian, and presumably of Ojibwa, origin," and that at least three types of the ceremony once existed. These are: (1) The Dakotan type, stiU practiced by some bands of Winnebago in Wis- " Cf. Hoffman, The Menominee Indians, pp. 66-137, and Mide'wiwin of the Ojibwa, also Bull. 46, Bur. Amer. Ethn., pp. 13-115, and Bull. 86, pp. 86-97 and 176. » An unpublished manuscript In the library of the New York State
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