Sioux Grass Dance Song Analysis

In the back you can hear the drums being played in the Sioux Grass dance. Its rhythm is stready with a strong pulse, along side with the drums you can hear some type of suspension rattles and container at the same time. There is both male and female voices present, they are both singing in unison and you can very clearly distinguish the falsetto tones. Their voice ranges from high to low. The Melody of this song is repreated varous times you can hear a pattern of a loud introduction and it decends and becomes loud again as if a new person or new phases is being said. The use of vocables is very present, and you can very much tell this is a dance song rasther than a chant, you can almost see this song being sung at a powwow.