Densmore's Menominee Music

A collection of songs of the Menominee people, collected by Frances Densmore between 1925 and 1929 and published in her 1932 Menominee Music. The songs were digitally encoded by Daniel Shanahan and Eva Shanahan.

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Properties
Dataset ID
densmore-menominee
Authors
Frances Densmore (collector), Daniel Shanahan (encoder), Eva Shanahan (encoder)
Contributors
Bas Cornelissen (additional metadata)
Citation
Shanahan & Shanahan, 2014
Sources
Densmore, 1932
License
Unknown
Formats
kern
Issues
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Index
IDOptionsNumTitleSourceGenreMetersmd5
menominee0011Song of MudjikikwawisDensmore, 1932, p. 29game, ceremonial3/4, 2/456318
menominee0022Song of OsawapunokeDensmore, 1932, p. 29game, ceremonial2/4, 3/4d4c0c
menominee0033Song of KesigokiuDensmore, 1932, p. 30game, ceremonial2/4, 3/4f8ac7
menominee0044Song of WapunomitaweDensmore, 1932, p. 30game, ceremonial2/4, 3/4d53a1
menominee0055Song Received from the Spirit WomenDensmore, 1932, p. 32game, ceremonial3/4, 2/4ecdd9
menominee0066A Spirit Woman Gives a NameDensmore, 1932, p. 35game, ceremonial2/4, 3/44d269
menominee0077Song with Lacrosse GameDensmore, 1932, p. 40game, ceremonial3/4, 2/46ca2e
menominee0088I Paint My Face RedDensmore, 1932, p. 44game, ceremonial2/4, 3/4d90d1
menominee0099The East God Gave Us this DanceDensmore, 1932, p. 45game, ceremonial5/8, 2/4928eb
menominee01010Song to the East GodDensmore, 1932, p. 46game, ceremonial3/4, 2/4f25c0
menominee01111Song in Honor of the DrumDensmore, 1932, p. 47game, ceremonial2/4, 3/48066b
menominee01212Song for the Person to be AdoptedDensmore, 1932, p. 47game, ceremonial2/4, 3/45aad5
menominee01313Dancing Song from the East God (a)Densmore, 1932, p. 48game, ceremonial2/4, 3/41521d
menominee01414Dancing Song from the East God (b)Densmore, 1932, p. 49game, ceremonial2/4, 3/40ce98
menominee01515Dancing Song from the East God (c)Densmore, 1932, p. 49game, ceremonial2/4ae3ca
menominee01616Dancing Song from the East God (d)Densmore, 1932, p. 50game, ceremonial3/8, 3/4, 2/4c4e7b
menominee01717In Four DaysDensmore, 1932, p. 51game, ceremonial3/4, 5/8, 2/40b709
menominee01818Dancing Song from the South God (a)Densmore, 1932, p. 53game, ceremonial2/4, 3/458f56
menominee01919Dancing Song from the South God (b)Densmore, 1932, p. 53game, ceremonial3/4, 2/45da7e
menominee02020Dancing Song from the South God (c)Densmore, 1932, p. 54game, ceremonial3/4, 2/4, 3/8, 2/8a10e0
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References
Densmore, Frances. 1932. Menominee Music. Bulletin 102 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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Music Cognition Group & clclab
ILLC, University of Amsterdam

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