Show NO SWE WORDS BUT W ATH SONGS Lapp Women Sometimes Faint FaInt On Ou Hearing tiL T STOCKHOLM April 19 A The Lapps Lepps are ps the onh people In the th world who sho have no swear wear words In their language but they have hav wrath songs Instead and thu thus hav hivo In a sense sene exalted pro pro- pro fanity profanity Into an art This and other strIking Information about the music of ot the Lapps ha has just Jut come to cometo light fight through the th and re ot of Karl sho ho h bbs hoh brought back to Stockholm scores cole rind and JOO phonograph records ot of the weird songs of ot these ious bus mysterious nomads nomad ot of ot the th S north The fact tet that LAPP lays arc form forms of personal expression and not meins of ot gl t entertainment for listeners ha has made It almost Impossible for tor observers to much about 11 It took years year o 0 association before Mr could win sufficient confidence ot of any Lapp to be I let t Into so secret and personal a thing thin a as hi his mUSic mUSic- making or as It Is r called Once that confidence w was s established however hower how er ha hs was rich rich- rich ly richly re rewarded The typical Lapp song ton contains contain a cl metrical and Cal I text ss without rhyme The Th music Is descriptive 0 o ithe theme and I there are ar leitmotivs for e each h person animal or thinS things The Th bear hI I the reindeer rt the th squirrel the th river the hill bill even the th mosquito each has his hi motive Mr has Interested musi clans musicians here by showing that many pieces of the Lapp music bear strong resemblance to Wagner Thus Thu a song about a a bear H that J a- a a ticks the reindeer Is a close clos paral- paral lel parallel to ono one ot of 0 the motives motive In So vivid and peEp peEp- nant poignant Is this song that Lapp Worn Worn- en have hav been ben known to faint taint dur- dur 1 Ing durIng dur Its rendition Mr r s a collection Includes laments lamenta medicine mena mens incantations la- la merits ments paeans wrath songs and great range ranee of descriptive tune tunes One of ot the tonal descriptions rep rep- rep resents represents a Swedish crown prince afterwards Charles XV V who visit visit- r ed cd som some om 70 years ago and It bears bars an illuminating similarity simi simi- simi simi- larity to another tune sUpposed to describe a mountain In |