Music 469 



With a few such elemental groups of his own invention at com- 

 mand, any singer would be well equipped to extemporize for the de- 

 lectation of his host and the entertainment of the other guests. 



The song is exceptional for strongly accented notes. The triplets 

 giving the value of three quarter notes in the time of two are rather 

 unusual in modern music. It is cast in the natural minor scale of B^. 

 The singer never uses either the raised 6th or 7th in ascending, as do 

 moderns in the melodic minor, but adheres strictly to the old normal 

 or natural minor form. 



Although diatonic, in that both the G h and O appear frequently, 

 yet the number savors much of the pentatonic. 



At three places where the singer uses one or the other of the tones 

 foreign to the pentatonic scale, he makes half -step progressions. 



In the fourth line of the song we find the single instance in these 

 records, where the performer takes an upward glissando. It is on the 

 two-note embellishment F* G b shown in the last measure of that line. 

 It is immediately followed by a downward glissando. 



Balalognimas 

 Record H. 



Two singers are heard on this record. They seem to be women. 

 Possibly there are more than the two voices. As the song has such a 

 well-defined swing and such a martial character, it must be wonder- 

 fully inspiring when given by a large company of singers. 



It is cast in the natural minor diatonic scale of C#, though it is 

 strongly pentatonic in character. 



The rhythm is partly 5/8 and partly 4/8, but it swings along so 

 naturally that it seems as if it could not be otherwise. 



The distribution of the accents, sometimes falling on the first and 

 third beats and again on the second and fourth, helps to give it a 

 character which puts it in a class by itself. It has the most character 

 of any of the women's songs in this group. 



There are several verses to the song almost precisely alike in 

 words and music. 



Da-eng. Boys and Girls Alternating. 



Record I. Sung while dancing in a religious ceremony. 



This song is in two distinct movements or parts varying one from 

 the other in meter, in tempo, and in general style. 



