Indian Story and Song, from North America
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Indian Story and Song, from North America is by Alice C. Fletcher. The contents list the Story and Song of the Wren, the Omaha Funeral Song, the Story and Song of the Mother's Vow and A Pawnee Love-song. The contents also list pieces called Music in Indian Life and The Relation of Story and Song.
A narrator watches a woman with hair seamed with grey reach the top as lightning flashes around her, and hears her voice ring out loud and clear in a song. A Dakota woman fasted in the early part of the century, according to the book. One section says that the creation of what we know as musical form seems also to be due to the influence of story upon song.
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- Author
- Alice C. Fletcher
- Pages
- 151
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Music
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