On the Warpath

On the Warpath
"On The Warpath"
(A Wild West Two Step)
OnTheWarpath1904.png
Sheet music cover.
Music by Raymond A. Browne
Written 1904
Language English

"On The Warpath" is a popular instrumental tune composed by Raymond A. Browne in 1904.[1] "On The Warpath" was the first American popular music to incorporate a repeating tom-tom effect in the score.[2]

References

  1. ^ Browne, "On The Warpath" (Sheet music).
  2. ^ Pisani, Imagining Native America in Music, p. 253: "Raymond A. Browne used a repeating tom-tom open-fifth trope for 'On the War-Path: A Wild-West Two-Step' (also 1904). Though the tom-tom effect had occasionally appeared in nineteenth-century balletic danses sauvages, 'On the War-Path' is the first such instance I have found in an American popular song."

Bibliography

  • Browne, Raymond A. "On The Warpath" (Sheet music). New York: F.B. Haviland (1904).
  • Pisani, Michael. Imagining Native America in Music. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press (2006).

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