. Bulletin. Ethnology. TETON STOUX MUSIC 299 No, 108. "My Horse Flics like a Bird" (Catalogue No. 573) Sung by Brave Buffalo Voice J ^ 84 Drum not recorded Ko - la mi - ta - Sui) - ke kitj-yaij. gyi-f^r^^^^s^is^ WORDS kola' friend mita'surike my horse kigyag' yag flies Like a bird ig'yagke lo as it runs Analysis.—This is one of the instances in which the signature indi- cates the pitch of the tones as sung by the singer but does not imply a "key" in the musical sense of the term. The song is classified as '' ; (See table on p. 305.) It will be note
. Bulletin. Ethnology. TETON STOUX MUSIC 299 No, 108. "My Horse Flics like a Bird" (Catalogue No. 573) Sung by Brave Buffalo Voice J ^ 84 Drum not recorded Ko - la mi - ta - Sui) - ke kitj-yaij. gyi-f^r^^^^s^is^ WORDS kola' friend mita'surike my horse kigyag' yag flies Like a bird ig'yagke lo as it runs Analysis.—This is one of the instances in which the signature indi- cates the pitch of the tones as sung by the singer but does not imply a "key" in the musical sense of the term. The song is classified as '' ; (See table on p. 305.) It will be noted that the progres- sions of the first 12 measures are based on the major triad B-D sharp-F sharp, yet the presence of E sharp makes it impossible to consider that part of the song in the key of B. The remainder of the song sug- gests the key of B minor. In the first part of the song Brave Buffalo sang E sharp and D sharj), and in the latter part he sang E natural and D natural, these tones being given clearly and unmistakably. A comparison of the tone C, registered at the beginning of the cyHn- der, with C on the piano, shows that the phonograph was properly adjusted when the record was made, so that the change of i^itch is not due to any slackening of speed in the recording machine, which might have been the case if the machine had been partially run down. Two renditions were recorded, wdth a pause and some conversation between them, and the pecuharities of the first rendition were re- peated exactly in the second. Tlie personality of the singer should be taken into account in considering a song of marked pecuharity, and Brave Buffalo, who made this record, was not a man given to. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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