Densmore's Choctaw Music

A collection of songs of the Choctaw people, collected by Frances Densmore in 1933 and published in her 1943 Choctaw Music. The songs were digitally encoded by David Huron.

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Properties
Dataset ID
densmore-choctaw
Authors
Frances Densmore (collector), David Huron (encoder)
Contributors
Bas Cornelissen (additional metadata)
Citation
Shanahan & Shanahan, 2014
Sources
Densmore, 1943
License
Unknown
Formats
kern
Issues
Missing additional metadata

Additional metadata for songs on pages 145 and 155 is missing.

Index
IDOptionsNumTitleSourceGenreMetersmd5
choct011War SongDensmore, 1943, p. 124war2/4, 3/4, 5/8adce8
choct022"Begging for Gunpower" SongDensmore, 1943, p. 125war3/4, 2/4, 5/8, 3/86045e
choct033I am GoingDensmore, 1943, p. 125war2/48ec1f
choct044Slacker SongDensmore, 1943, p. 126war2/4, 3/8, 5/8, 7/8d657f
choct055Victory SongDensmore, 1943, p. 127war2/4ebbdb
choct06Whistle MelodyDensmore, 1943game3/4, 3/8, 2/4, 4/4bee18
choct07a6Song for Success in the Ball GameDensmore, 1943, p. 131game2/4dbd3f
choct07b6 [duplicate]Song for Success in the Ball GameDensmore, 1943, p. 131game2/434e6a
choct087Bullet Game Song (a)Densmore, 1943, p. 133game2/4140e5
choct098Bullet Game Song (b)Densmore, 1943, p. 134game2/4c1387
choct109Bullet Game Song (c)Densmore, 1943, p. 134game, animal2/474f66
choct1110Tick Dance Song (a)Densmore, 1943, p. 136dance, animal2/4, 3/4a9810
choct1211Tick Dance Song (b)Densmore, 1943, p. 137dance, animal2/4, 3/4416a2
choct1312Tick Dance Song (c)Densmore, 1943, p. 138dance, animal2/4, 3/48109c
choct1413Tick Dance Song (d)Densmore, 1943, p. 139dance, animal2/420fe8
choct1514Tick Dance Song (e)Densmore, 1943, p. 140dance, animal3/4d28af
choct1615Tick Dance Song (f)Densmore, 1943, p. 140dance, animal2/44e912
choct1716Tick Dance Song (g)Densmore, 1943, p. 141dance, animal2/4, 3/8, 3/438f5e
choct1817Tick Dance Song (h)Densmore, 1943, p. 141dance, animal2/47fcec
choct1918Tick Dance Song (i)Densmore, 1943, p. 142dance, animal2/4, 3/4ed761
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References
Densmore, Frances. 1943. Chocktaw Music. Bulletin 136 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smitsonian Institution. Washington, U.S.A.: Government Printing Office. Hathi Trust Google Worldcat
Shanahan, Daniel, and Eva Shanahan. 2014. “The Densmore Collection of Native American Songs: A New Corpus for Studies of Effects of Geograpy, Language and Social Function on Folk Song.” In Proceedings for the 13th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, 206–8. Seoul.

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