On the Warpath
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| name = On The Warpath
| cover = OnTheWarpath1904.png
| alt =
| caption = Sheet music cover
| type = Instrumental
| written = 1904
| published =
| writer =
| composer = Raymond A. Browne
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}}
"On The Warpath" is a popular instrumental tune composed by Raymond A. Browne in 1904.Browne, "On The Warpath" (Sheet music). "On The Warpath" was the first American popular music to incorporate a repeating tom-tom effect in the score.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."
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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).
Category:Songs about Native Americans
Category:Native American cultural appropriation
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