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Zeisberg 09 “Indian Love Song"
1media/zeisberg 8 and 9.jpg2020-01-11T13:16:18+00:00Jennifer Fraser404477000adfd4e5c7a1128cfac82e1fc740e8c3182Song 9 of Primitive Indian Tunes, piano transcriptions by F. J. Zeisberggallery2020-01-12T20:36:13+00:00Jennifer Fraser404477000adfd4e5c7a1128cfac82e1fc740e8c3Zeisberg titles this song "Indian Love Song," not the "Love Song: Omaha" used in Indian Story and Song, thereby conflating Omaha as a specific Indigenous group with the generic title of "Indian" in vogue at the time. The original arrangement and harmonization is attributed to Fillmore. One will note that there is an English text, used both in Fillmore's arrangement and Zeisberg's. This text, the story about the Love Song tells us, was written by Miss Edna Dean Proctor, who was a noted author and poet. As Fletcher writes, Proctor "has rendered into charming verse the scene and the feeling of the hour, giving us an Indian love song in its entirety" (Fletcher 1900: 49). What Fletcher does not say is how Proctor knew of the Omaha original, whether she interacted with Indigenous peoples at all, which suggests that she has not so much "given us an Indian love song in its entirety" as her own, Settler interpretation of an Omaha love song.
Zeisberg's arrangement uses only the first two verses and does not acknowledge Proctor's authorship of the text.
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1media/zeisberg 8 and 9_thumb.jpg2020-01-07T15:27:41+00:00Jennifer Fraser404477000adfd4e5c7a1128cfac82e1fc740e8c3Manuscript: Zeisberg, No. 8 "Pawnee Love Song" and No. 9 “Indian Love Song"3Page 7 of Primitive Indian Tunes, piano transcriptions by F. J. Zeisbergmedia/zeisberg 8 and 9.jpgplain2022-05-30T17:52:49+00:00No. 8, Nov 15, 1937, No . 9. Nov 16, 1937Donation to Oberlin CollegeLuca Connorsced9dd0f9f64a731c75f8e47663d30a132fa944a
1media/zeisberg 9 cont. _thumb.jpg2020-01-07T15:29:13+00:00Jennifer Fraser404477000adfd4e5c7a1128cfac82e1fc740e8c3Manuscript: Zeisberg, No. 9 “Indian Love Song” continued3Page 8 of Primitive Indian Tunes, piano transcriptions by F. J. Zeisbergmedia/zeisberg 9 cont. .jpgplain2022-05-30T17:53:02+00:00Nov 16, 1937Donation to Oberlin CollegeLuca Connorsced9dd0f9f64a731c75f8e47663d30a132fa944a
1media/Indian Story and Song Love Song MUSIC_thumb.tiff2019-12-31T03:19:43+00:00Jennifer Fraser404477000adfd4e5c7a1128cfac82e1fc740e8c3Image: Fletcher Transcription of "Love Song (Omaha)"6From Fletcher's Indian Story and Songmedia/Indian Story and Song Love Song MUSIC.tiffplain2022-05-26T21:44:31+00:001900Public DomainLuca Connorsced9dd0f9f64a731c75f8e47663d30a132fa944a
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