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572:. Though it is now accepted that music, especially white music, may be composed in the European influenced sense, the traditional view still greatly affects how songs and their creation or origin are considered. Songs are considered somewhat like objects, in that they may be created of components, but once finished become a unity. They may also be "given" or even sold. Some songs belong to everyone, some songs to just one person but may be sung by others, and some songs individuals save until times of great need. Two songs which may be aurally identical may be considered different songs if they have different origins, i.e., came from different visions. 393:
instruments or texts, and singing is not supposed to sound like talking (or imitate any other sound). Typically, songs which contain texts are short and not repetitive, such as: "It's a bad thing to be an old man", 1951 recording of a Crazy Dog Society song) or the relatively lengthy, "Yonder woman, you must take me. I am powerful. Yonder woman, you must take me, you must hear me. Where I sit is powerful" (Wissler and Duvall 1909:85 sung by a rock to a woman in the buffalo-rock myth). Often when the text takes up most of the melody with fewer vocables the melodies are short. The vocables used, as in
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closely with warfare and most singing is done by men and much by community leaders. "The acquisition of songs as associated with difficult feats—learned in visions brought about through self-denial and torture, required to be learned quickly, sung with the expenditure of great energy, sung in a difficult vocal style—all of this puts songs in the category of the heroic and the difficult."
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and the difficult in Blackfoot life", with performance practices that strongly distinguish music from the rest of life. Singing is strongly distinguished from speech and many songs contain no words, and those with texts often describe important parts of myths in a succinct manner. Music is associated
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Though these recordings are countless there are chronological gaps (1910–1950), complex music and culture changed rapidly, and the various groups are treated unevenly. Additionally there are few studies of the musical culture (most recordings being made as part of ethnographic studies), mostly by
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Drumming has increased in prominence since 1900, now being virtually required, possibly because of the influence of pan-tribal culture, the decreased use of rattles and other percussion, or the decrease in frequency of songs texts. The use of the term "drumming" for musician/singer also increased
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increases as the drumming moves further to the center of the drum skin. At some point "hard beats", loud strokes off the rhythm by an individual, sometimes the leader, and beats may be omitted. Drumming may pause for a phrase or two in the last stanza of the last repetition and finish loudly. When
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happen but are rare, and the vocal style is the element least tampered with it being considered essential to sound like traditional Indigenous music.. Though the European influenced concept of meter may be inapplicable to Blackfoot music as it is characterized by the relationships between phrases
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as lessening the importance and meaning of both words and music; and the same for the manner of listening to such music, that is, for entertainment or enjoyment, often while doing other things: if someone needed to say so many words, why didn't they just talk. Blackfoot music is not based on
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Singing without drums is extremely rare and considered inappropriate. The drum accompaniment to songs is rhythmically independent to the singing but in perfect unison, "slightly off the beat", and "often related roughly by the proportion of 2:3", to the vocal pulse or
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Rehearsing happens increasingly, likely because of the influence of European influenced concepts of performance, song origin or composition, and a change in the purpose of music: from communication with the supernatural to communication with other humans.
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The basic musical unit in Blackfoot music is the song, and musicians, people who sing and drum, are called singers or drummers with both words being equivalent and referring to both activities. Women, though increasingly equal participants, are not called
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Solo singing may have been more prominent, or the norm, in the past, but group singing has increased in prominence, with singing/drumming groups called "drums". Vocal blending is not required in ensemble singing. The leader may begin the head
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The vocal style is similar to other Plains Indigenous nations with: "high-pitched beginnings, pulsations, vocal narrowness. nasality." "Pulsations on longer tones, the audible effects of tension, nasality, substantial
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Public interest in Blackfoot music is indicated by the release of two records (17611 and 17635), recorded unexplainably in New York in 1914. Beginning in the 1950s professional singing groups were formed.
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Music, singing, is not thought to be like speech, or any other sound at all. There are no spoken introductions or conclusions and no "intermediary forms" between speech and singing.
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and/or reduction of the first.". However, there was more formal variation in the past. Songs sung with medicine basket openings and gamblings songs often use
784: 647:"manly-hearted women" (Lewis, 1941) who act in much of the social roles of men, were in the past also willing to sing alone and use a men's singing style. 730:. The second set of recordings, by Clark Wissler in 1903 and 1904 contains 146 cylinders, part of his larger studies and the third, by J.K. Dixon of the 552:, players drum upon a plank, and the drumming is more likely to coincide with vocal beats, but less accurate unison playing. Rattles are no longer used. 723: 510: 262: 257: 1198: 799: 281: 1418: 1285: 575:
Most songs, except gambling songs which simply repeat "litany-like" one or two phrases, are characterized by an "incomplete repetition"
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often being associated with the objects, such as sticks or dancers legs, they are attached to rather than as instruments of their own.
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of a song, and then be repeated or "raised" by another singer, possibly the second singer. In pan-Indigenous powwow terminology,
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there are many collections of Blackfoot music, the largest being at the Archives of Traditional Music at
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or game song repertoire, except for Mice Songs associated with one game, and songs usually called
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Traditionally, songs are considered to be given, completed, to individual Blackfoot people in
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sung to them by their mothers. Women used to have their own small repertoire of lullabies,
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pattern, "many of them can ultimately be reduced to a binary form in which the section is a
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and it is considered somewhat inappropriate for women to sing loudly or alone.
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of subsequent repetitions of a section is common, though may also occur down a
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than European influenced musical thought which tends to be more
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Jack Gladstone (Montana's Traubadour and Blackfeet poet singer)
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or vocal texts. Blackfoot people see the profusion of words in
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accompanied by husband Lucien Hanks in 1938, was recorded in
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generally equals the rate at which vocal pulsations occur.
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War against the Crow and Gros Ventre (circa 1861–1867)
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or others singing around forty songs in or around the
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No. 2 in 1909, includes several songs sung mostly by
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Blackfoot Musical Thought: Comparative Perspectives
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Index

Blackfoot music
North American Indian music
Aboriginal music of Canada
Arapaho
Blackfeet
Dene
Innu
Inuit
Iroquois
Kiowa
Kwakwaka'wakw
Métis
Navajo
Pueblo
Seminole
Sioux
Yaqui
Yuman
List
Chicken scratch
Ghost Dance
Hip hop
New Mexico music
Opera
Peyote song
Pow wow
Throat singing
Anasazi flute
Apache fiddle
Clapper stick

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