On the Warpath explained
| On The Warpath |
| Cover: | OnTheWarpath1904.png |
| Caption: | Sheet music cover |
| Type: | Instrumental |
| Written: | 1904 |
| Composer: | Raymond A. Browne |
"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]
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).
Notes and References
- Browne, "On The Warpath" (Sheet music).
- 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."
