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SEALED / SS / NEW
INDIAN Songs of the SOUTHWEST
Native American
THUNDERBIRD Records / Santa Fe, NM / TR - 1943
Gerald Nailor cover
Tracklist
A1 Apache Mountain Spirits Dance Song
A2 Hopi Butterfly Song
A3 Taos War Dance Song
A4 Navajo Horse Riding Song
A5 Zuni War Dance Song
A6 Hopi Plaque Song
A7 Taos Moonlight Song
B1 Navajo Yebeechi Chant
B2 Apache Sunrise Song
B3 Hopi War Dance Song
B4 Hopi Lullaby "Humming Bird Song"
B5 Taos Hoop Dance Song
B6 Navajo Fire Dance Song
B7 Hopi Coming Out Song
Liner notes:
Gems For Collectors
Like all primitive peoples, the Southwest Indians have many traditional religious and social ceremonies. Each ceremony has its own special class or type of song. Though they sound strange to us at first, Indian songs are like our more familiar American music: each song has a short melodic phrase built on related tones. The tonal range of the songs is usually from one to three octaves.
Some of the songs have words; others have no words, using instead voice-sounds or vocables, like words but without specific meaning. Once these vocables are set to a melody, they are never changed.
When there is more than one singer, the group generally sings in unison. Singers with clear, resonant voices and good musical intonation make up the choir, which leads the chanting in the ceremonies.
The songs themselves are the property of the tribes, societies, or individuals. The music is intimately bound up with the religious and tribal life of the Indians; the societies are careful never to change a single word or sound of the songs. Being primitive, the Indian songs can show us a historical background which probably applies to all music. Many composers have found that study of the Indian music brings them a wealth of melodic and rhythmic inspiration.
The music of the religious dance ceremonies of the Southwest Indians is usually a chant. The dancers themselves, or a chorus, sing the chants and often accompany themselves by the beat of one or more drums, or by rubbing notched sticks across a hollow gourd. Gourd rattles and sleigh bells are part of the trappings of the dancers. The sound of the rattle and the tinkle of the bells accentuate the rhythms of the dance.
The chants are in fact prayers addressed to the gods, spirits, animals and plants of the Indian world. The voices, the drums, the rattles and the bells make a complex sound which is strong and sharp, and filled with exciting rhythm.
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