A Study of Omaha Indian Music

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“Some of the Indians, music envelopes like an atmosphere each and every religious, tribal, and social ceremony in addition to each and every personal experience. There isn’t a phase of life that doesn’t find expression in song,” wrote Alice C. Fletcher. The famous anthropologist published A Study of Omaha Indian Music in 1893. With the single exception of an 1882 dissertation, it was once the first serious study ever made of American Indian music. And it was once the largest collection of non-Occidental music published to date, ninety-two songs, all from a single tribe.

Fletcher and Francis La Flesche, her Omaha coworker and adopted son, divided the songs into three categories: religious ones, to be sung by a certain class either through initiation or inheritance; social ones, involving dances and games, at all times sung by a group; and ones to be sung singly, including dream songs, love songs, captive songs, prayer songs, death songs, sweat lodge songs, and songs of thanks. John Comfort Fillmore, a professional musician, added a “Report on the Structural Peculiarities of the Music.”

Those interested in a very important aspect of Indian culture will need to own this book, which comprises the musical scores in addition to the native-language words for the songs.


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