. Bulletin. Ethnology. 27] MUSIC OF INDIANS OF B. C.—DCENSMORE 85 No. 84. Divorce Dance Song (b) Recorded by Jane Gkeen (Catalog No. 1685). 0 4 ihi. n n p^ 1—1 MB P"^- #i\ r g ^-^ -*-«-:—-; \^^ —•- — —« 3 --\^ —n~ UL^ \L-\ ^ 1 1—=—^ —ii i-a( 1-J-. d : 60 jljl^JrFJ'l^^^-i^IXUaj^^^ Free translation.—I thought you were good at first. I thought you were like silver and I find you are lead. You see me high up. I walk through the .sun. I am like the sun- light myself. Analysis.—The change from major to minor tonality occurs in all the ren- ditions of this song, the keynote remai
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 27] MUSIC OF INDIANS OF B. C.—DCENSMORE 85 No. 84. Divorce Dance Song (b) Recorded by Jane Gkeen (Catalog No. 1685). 0 4 ihi. n n p^ 1—1 MB P"^- #i\ r g ^-^ -*-«-:—-; \^^ —•- — —« 3 --\^ —n~ UL^ \L-\ ^ 1 1—=—^ —ii i-a( 1-J-. d : 60 jljl^JrFJ'l^^^-i^IXUaj^^^ Free translation.—I thought you were good at first. I thought you were like silver and I find you are lead. You see me high up. I walk through the .sun. I am like the sun- light myself. Analysis.—The change from major to minor tonality occurs in all the ren- ditions of this song, the keynote remaining the same, hut the third and sixth being lowered a semitone. The intervals are more varied than in the song next preceding and comprise two semitones and five intervals larger than a minor third. Without these intervals the melody would be monotonous, as the remain- ing intervals consist of minor thirds and whole tones, about equal in ascending and descending order. The first portion of the song is rather lively and is based on the interval of a fourth, but with the change to minor tonality the fourth is replaced by minor thirds. The final measures are slower in tempo and contain a rather sad but coherent phrase. MISCELLANEOUS SONGS The singer said she had heard the old people sing the following song. In explanation she said her people believe that the spirits of the dead make known their presence in a room by a slight explosive noise in the fire.^ She said, "If you hear ^ping'' in the fire it is some dead person speaking. When he comes into the room he causes a thought of him to come into the minds of the people in the room, then he speaks through the ; Continuing her narrative, she said that a spirit who does not want to speak through the fire makes known his presence in the woods by making a tree fall when there is no wind. "If a person is walking in the woods and sees a tree fall when there is no wind he will say 'Now you
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