Music of the Maidu Indians of California

A collection of Maidu songs recorded by Frances Densmore from performances by Pablo Sylvers and Amanda Wilson in 1937. These songs were published in Densmore's Music of the Maidu Indians of California in 1958 and encoded by Daniel and Eva Shanahan.

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Properties
Dataset ID
densmore-maidu
Authors
Frances Densmore (author), Daniel Shanahan (encoder), Eva Shanahan (encoder)
Contributors
Bas Cornelissen (additional metadata)
Citation
Shanahan & Shanahan, 2014
Sources
Densmore, 1958
License
Unknown
Formats
kern
Issues
Publication preview urls are wrong

HathiTrust uses a 'page scan sequence' number in the url. We compute this by adding some number to the page number, but it seems that this doesn't always work... Is there another query param that we can use to select the page?

Index
IDOptionsNumTitleSourceGenreMetersmd5
maidu0011Song of the Hesi Dance (a)Densmore, 1958, p. 17ceremonial, dance2/433fd2
maidu0022Song of the Hesi Dance (b)Densmore, 1958, p. 18ceremonial, dance3/4, 2/4387c2
maidu0033Song of the Duck Dance (a)Densmore, 1958, p. 18ceremonial, dance2/4, 3/48bd88
maidu0044Song of the Duck Dance (b)Densmore, 1958, p. 19ceremonial, dance2/4, 3/4f9a9b
maidu0055Song of the Duck Dance (c)Densmore, 1958, p. 19ceremonial, dance3/41bb74
maidu0066Song of the Duck Dance (d)Densmore, 1958, p. 20ceremonial, dance2/445e62
maidu0077Song of the Bear Dance (a)Densmore, 1958, p. 21ceremonial, dance3/4, 2/418173
maidu0088Song of the Bear Dance (b)Densmore, 1958, p. 21ceremonial, dance3/47abde
maidu0099Song of the Bear Dance (c)Densmore, 1958, p. 22ceremonial, dance2/4, 3/45399f
maidu01010Song of the Grasshopper DanceDensmore, 1958, p. 22ceremonial, dance2/4, 3/4, 3/84144a
maidu01111The Dancers Approach the Lodge (a)Densmore, 1958, p. 25dance3/4, 2/44a670
maidu01212The Dancers Approach the Lodge (b)Densmore, 1958, p. 26dance3/4d2921
maidu01313Social Dance Song (a)Densmore, 1958, p. 26dance3/4ed7df
maidu01414Social Dance Song (b)Densmore, 1958, p. 26dance2/46e844
maidu01515Social Dance Song (c)Densmore, 1958, p. 26dance2/491104
maidu01616Social Dance Song (d)Densmore, 1958, p. 27dance2/46db23
maidu01717Social Dance Song (e)Densmore, 1958, p. 27dance2/472be4
maidu01818Social Dance Song (f)Densmore, 1958, p. 28dance2/45a784
maidu01919Social Dance Song (g)Densmore, 1958, p. 28dance2/4, 3/4723c8
maidu02020Social Dance Song (a)Densmore, 1958, p. 28dance2/4728fe
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References
Densmore, Frances. 1958. Music of the Maidu Indians of California. Publications of the Frederick Webb Hodge Anniversary Publication Fund. Los Angeles, U.S.A.: The Southwest Museum. 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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Music Cognition Group & clclab
ILLC, University of Amsterdam

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