Teton Sioux Music

This repository contains a digital edition of 245 songs from the book Teton Sioux Music by Frances Densmore, originally published by the Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 61, Smithsonian Institution (1918).

A scan of the original publication can be found online at:

• https://archive.org/details/tetonsioux00densmore/page/n7 (color)
  
• https://books.google.com/books?id=Adw_AAAAYAAJ (black & white)

This digital edition only encodes the music and not any lyrics to the songs.

Online viewing

A demo page on the Humdrum notation plugin website contains a nice browsing interface to the songs in the collection. Otherwise, graphical notation for the data files can easily be viewed and heard online in the Verovio Humdrum Viewer: http://verovio.humdrum.org/?file=folk/sioux&k=e&filter=autobeam From this link you can navigate between songs with the arrow buttons at the top of the linked page. Here is a view of song no. 46 in Verovio Humdrum Viewer:

A view of the same song in the original edition, page 177:

Here are links to display individual songs:

Number Title     1 Song of the White Buffalo Maiden     2 Song of Pretended Search     3 Ceremonial Song     4 Song for Securing Fair Weather     5 We Are Coming     6 Song of the Braves' Dance     7 With Dauntless Courage     8 The Many Lands You Fear     9 Song of the Departure of the Young Men   10 Song of the Return of the Young Men   11 Song of Cutting the Sacred Pole   12 Song of Victory over the Sacred Pole   13 Song of Painting the Sacred Pole   14 Song Sung after Raising the Sacred Pole (a)   15 Song Sung after Raising the Sacred Pole (b)   16 Song Sung after Raising the Sacred Pole (c)   17 Song of Preparing the Sacred Place   18 Song of Final Visit to the Vapor Lodge   19 Opening Song of the Sun Dance (a)   20 Opening Song of the Sun Dance (b)   21 Opening Prayer of the Sun Dance   22 Wakangtangka, Pity Me   23 Song of Lamentation   24 Noon Song   25 Song Concerning the Sun and Moon   26 Wakangtangka Hears Me   27 Black Face-paint He Grants Me   28 I Have Conquered Them   29 Dancing Song (a)   30 Dancing Song (b)   31 Dancing Song (c)   32 Dancing Song (d)   33 Dancing Song (e)   34 Dancing Song (f)   35 Dancing Song (g)   36 Song at Sunrise   37 The Horsemen in the Cloud   38 Before the Gathering of the Clouds   39 Song in Time of Danger   40 Song Concerning a Dream of the Thunderbirds   41 A Wind   42 In a Sacred Manner I Return   43 The Thunderbird Nation   44 A Buffalo Said to Me   45 Weapon Song   46 Song of the Elks   47 Owls Hooting   48 Song of the Young Wolves   49 Song of the Old Wolf   50 Song of the Crow and Owl   51 Where the Wind Is Blowing   52 I Made It Walk   53 Song of a Wolf   54 Toward Them I Walk   55 An Eagle Nation Is Coming   56 A Blacktail Deer   57 A Bear Said This   58 He Comes to Attack   59 May You Behold a Sacred Stone Nation   60 The Sacred Stones Come to See You   61 I Sing for the Animals   62 My Horse   63 Worthy of Reverence   64 A Sacred Stone Nation Is Speaking   65 They Move With a Purpose   66 From Everywhere They Come   67 A Wolf Nation Called Me `Father'   68 I Have Caused Them to Roam   69 These Are My Spies   70 I Am Required to Roam   71 Father, Behold Me   72 I Was Ordered to Return   73 Father, Sing to Me   74 A Spirit Has Come   75 From Whence the Winds Blow   76 Something I Foretold   77 In a Sacred Manner I Live   78 A Voice I Sent   79 The Sunrise   80 Behold the Dawn   81 Behold All These Things   82 I Am Sitting   83 We Will Eat   84 These Are Good   85 You Will Walk   86 Song Preceding Treatment of Fractures   87 An Appeal to the Bear   88 Song of the Bear   89 Bear Told Me   90 Song of Healing   91 Sitting Bull's Medicine Song (a)   92 Sitting Bull's Medicine Song (b)   93 A Wind from the North   94 May This Be the Day   95 Northward They Are Walking   96 My Goal   97 In the North   98 Their Votes Could Be Heard   99 Against the Wind 100 I Come 101 Buffalo Society Song (a) 102 Buffalo Society Song (b) 103 Buffalo Society Song (c) 104 Song of the Elk Society 105 Something Sacred I Wear 106 My Life Is Such 107 An Elk Am I 108 My Horse Flies like a Bird 109 When a Horse Neighs 110 Horses Are Coming 111 Prancing They Come 112 Chasing, They Walked 113 A Root of Herb 114 Song of the Fox Society (a) 115 Song of the Fox Society (b) 116 Song of the Strong Heart Society (a) 117 Song of the Strong Heart Society (b) 118 Song of the Strong Heart Society (c) 119 Song of the Strong Heart Society (d) 120 Song of the Badger Society (a) 121 Song of the Badger Society (b) 122 Ceremonial Song of the Miwatani

Number Title 123 Song of the White Horse Riders (a) 124 Song of the White Horse Riders (b) 125a Those Are Not My Interest 125b Those Are Not My Interest 126 Like a Wolf I Roam 127 Watch Your Horses 128 Friends, Go On 129 A Wolf I Considered Myself 130 Adventures I Seek 131 His Horses He Granted Me 132a Those Hills I Trod Upon 132b Those Hills I Trod Upon 132c Those Hills I Trod Upon 133a Wolf Song 133b Wolf Song 134 It Is Difficult 135 Song of the Camp 136 Clear the Way, I Come 137 At the Wind Center I Stand 138 Song Concerning War Paint 139 Tremble, O Tribe of the Enemy 140 Behold My Horse 141 See My Desire 142 The Earth Only Endures 143 Tell Her 144 She Stands There Smiling 145 Horses I Am Bringing 146 He Is Returning 147 Song Concerning White Butterfly 148 He Lies Over There 149 Learn the Songs of Victory 150 Song in Honor of Onihang 151a You May Go on the Warpath 151b When You Return 152 I Look for Him in Vain 153 He Is Again Gone on the Warpath 154 You Should Give Up the Warpath 155 Song of the Warpath 156 May I Be There 157 A Prairie Fire 158 Song Concerning Sitting Crow 159 A Spotted Horse 160 Owls Hoot At Me 161 I Wish to Roam 162 A Night Is Different 163 I Am Bringing Horses 164 Even the Eagle Dies 165 I Took Courage 166 Captives I Am Bringing 167 They Deserted Their Leader 168 One of Them Will Be Killed 169 I Intend to Take His Horses 170 It Is I, Myself 171 Horses I Seek 172 When I Came You Cried 173 I Struck the Enemy 174 I Come After Your Horses 175 Two War Parties 176 Sister, I Bring You a Horse 177 Song of Self-reliance 178 I Am the Fox 179 I Look for Them 180 Song of the Buffalo Hunt (a) 181 Song of the Buffalo Hunt (b) 182 Song of the Buffalo Hunt (c) 183 Song To Secure Buffalo in Time of Famine 184 I Sing of the Dead Chiefs 185 I Fear Not 186 I Wish To Do My Part 187 His Customs I Adopted 188 Song in Honor of Two Bears 189 Song in Honor of Gabriel Renville (a) 190 Song in Honor of Gabriel Renville (b) 191 Song in Honor of John Grass 192 Song in Honor of Red Fish 193 Song of Sitting Bull (a) 194 Song of Sitting Bull (b) 195 They Are Charging Them 196 Song of the Grass Dance (a) 197 Song of the Grass Dance (b) 198 Song of the Grass Dance (c) 199 Song of the Grass Dance (d) 200 Song of the Grass Dance (e) 201 Song of the Shuffling-feet Dance (a) 202 Song of the Shuffling-feet Dance (b) 203 Song of the Night Dance 204 Begging Song of the Old Women 205 Begging Song 206 Song of the Moccasin Game (a) 207 Song of the Moccasin Game (b) 208 Song of the Moccasin Game (c) 209 Song of the Moccasin Game (d) 210 Song of the Moccasin Game (e) 211 Song of the Moccasin Game (f) 212 Game Song 213 Song When a Game Is Almost Won 214 Song of Victory 215 Song of Little Girl's Play (a) 216 Song of Little Girl's Play (b) 217 Lullaby 218 Song of the Maiden's Leap 219 Song of a Ghost 220 The Poor Are Many 221 I Expect to Give Something 222 Two White Buffalo 223 Take Fresh Courage 224 The White Horse Riders Said This 225 Two White Buffalo, Take Courage 226 The Tribe You Help 227 Whenever the Tribe Assembles 228 They Depend Upon You 229 I Donated a Horse 230 Hence They Come 231 A Short Time 232 Come 233 Love Song (a) 234 Love Song (b) 235 You Have Relied Upon Me 236 I Have Been Helping 237 Song of the Ticketless Society 238 Song Concerning Fierce Face 239 Song Concerning a Message from Washington 240 Song of the Famine

Corrections

If you think that there is a mistake in the data, verify that there is a problem by viewing the original edition at https://books.google.com/books?id=Adw_AAAAYAAJ to compare with the digital edition.

If an error is found, there are two methods for fixing it. A simple method is to report the problem on the issues page for this repository. You should cite the song number and page in the source PDF (and/or the page number in the original publication) with a description of the error. Also cite the measure number in the source edition (visible at the start of the systems in VHV, as well as after = signs in the data). Also preferably you should include a snapshot of the error in the VHV notation and in the source scan of the corresponding spot.

Images can be added to the issue report by dragging-and-dropping them into the report form.

More advanced users can submit a pull request fixing the error, after first making a fork (i.e., a copy) into their Github account.

In both case, you will have to create a free account on Github.

Line/page breaks and staff spacings are dependent on verovio and not taken from the source edition (may be added in the future).

Downloading

The files can be downloaded by clicking on the green "Clone or download" button that should be near the top right corner of this page. Then choose "Download ZIP" in the drop-down menu that appears.

To download with git:

git clone https://github.com/craigsapp/densmore-teton-sioux

To update your copy with any new changes to the data, type this command within the densmore-teton-sioux directory:

git pull

Alternate access to data

This digital edition is also accessible in a variety of interfaces described below.

KernScores website access

These digital scores are available on the kernScores library of Humdrum musical scores:

• http://kernscores.stanford.edu/browse?l=folk/sioux

with mirrors at:

• http://kern.humdrum.org/browse?l=folk/sioux
• http://kern.ccarh.org/browse?l=folk/sioux

Command-line downloading with Humdrum Extras

The Humdrum Extras command-line programs can download these files from kernScores. A quick method of downloading:

    mkdir -p densmore-teton-sioux
    cd densmore-teton-sioux
    humsplit h://folk/sioux

To interface to the original Humdrum Toolkit commands, use the humcat command to download to standard input (the -s option is needed when downloading multiple files):

   humcat -s h://folk/sioux | census -k

There are 16091 notes in this data set, which is an average of 66 notes per song. The lowest pitch is D2 and the hightest is F5. The shortest note, other than a few grace notes, is a triplet 32nd note, and the longest note is a dotted half note.

Humdrum-data repository

This digital edition will also be available in a larger set of songs collected by Densmore.

Command-line processing

Using the included makefile

The makefile provided in the base directory includes example data processing commands. Type make when in the same directory as the makefile to list commands that can be run with the makefile:

Run this makefile with one of the following labels:
   "make update"      : download any new changes from online repository.
   "make reference"   : download PDF scans of reference editions.
   "make clean"       : delete data directories created by this makefile.

Commands requiring the Humdrum Toolkit to be installed:
   "make census"      : run the census command on all files.

Commands requiring Humdrum Extras to be installed.
   "make keyscape"    : generate keyscape plots by movement.
   "make midi"        : convert to MIDI files (full repeats)
   "make midi-norep"  : convert to MIDI files (no repeats)
   "make musedata"    : convert to MuseData files.
   "make abc"         : convert to ABC files.
   "make musicxml"    : convert to MusicXML files.
   "make notearray"   : create notearray files.
   "make searchindex" : create themax search index.

Commands requiring other software to be installed.
   "make pdf-lilypond": convert to PDF files with lilypond.
   "make pdf-musedata": convert to PDF files with muse2ps.

If the make command does not work for you, then most likely it must be installed. In linux, the following command might install make:

   sudo apt-get install build-essential
   # or
   sudo yum install build-essential

In MacOS Mavericks or later, install the Xcode command-line tools by typing this command in the terminal:

   xcode-select --install

Most of the make targets also require Humdrum Extras to process the data. See https://github.com/humdrum-tools for instructions on downloading and installing it. A few other make targets require additional software to be installed, such as ImageMagick tools, muse2ps, lilypond, and verovio.

Creating MIDI files

To convert the Humdrum data files into MIDI files, type:

make midi

This will create a directory called midi containing the resulting MIDI files. These files contain the full repeats indicated in the music. To generate MIDI files that take only second endings (suitble for most types of analysis), instead type:

make midi-norep

This will generate MIDI files without repeats ("norep").