SEALED INDIAN Songs of the SOUTHWEST Native American Hopi Navajo Taos HEAR AZ NM

SEALED / SS / NEW

INDIAN Songs of the SOUTHWEST

Native American

THUNDERBIRD Records / Santa Fe, NM / TR - 1943

HEAR IT   (not this sealed copy of course!)

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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