AFRICAN NATIVE MKLODIES. 62;i 



Except for the passing f in line 2, and the lift mf at the 

 end, it will be seen that the scale runs : m' r' d' 1 S i»i. 



Let me take another example from the extreme East, from 

 the other extremity of Eurasia, namely, from Corea, whence a 

 friend was kind enough to procure me the following Pentatonic 

 melody, a Confucian chant: — 



1 1 , d r , I'l : d , r ni , m s , in : m 1 , s m , r : ni , s PI , dr , d 

 1 1 , d r , I'l : d , r m , I'l s , PI . 



It will be noted that this scale, so frequent in the corners 

 of the earth (it is used in China also), has no interval smaller 

 than a tone; the only other interval between adjacent notes is 

 the minor third ; the semitone does not exist. Hence the fact, 

 so often a trouble to missionaries here, that they cannot get 

 semitones properly sung. 



I will now proceed to Suto melodies, that being the Bantu 

 language I am most familiar, with, carefully observing any cases 

 which do not conform to the Scotch scale above : — 



d r PI r d 1, 1, rd 1, s, s, 



1. (Ue) Ue, Ue maloto, Klioashi (2) ; hulele, Khoashi (2). 



I have this song entered as a threshing song, but it is also 

 used in a children's game with stones. They sit round, hold- 

 ing them, tap on the ground at the three "lie's'' and the 

 syllable /o, and ]Dass at the syllables in italics. The song is prob- 

 ably old, and the sense of the words lost. Hulele means " draw 

 to" one; some read Helelc, which is an interjection of surprise, 

 and Khase. Z does not occur in Suto. It is a question whether 

 these alternatives are corruptions, or original, derived from some 

 other dialect and corrupted into the mere Suto forms first given, 



2. PI r PI r »>) pir pi r 



Seotsanyana Ha a rohalc, Ka s-dkaiu'iig'' La jnanyamane 



does not sleep in the kraal of the calves 



PI r PI r d r 1| 



Oa qetlioha O etsisa Nkhekhenene 



he just lies on his back r d 1| d S| 



he pretends sleep. 



(The last line is sung twice, first to the melody above it, then 

 to that below it.) Seotsanyana is a kind of Lob-lie-by-the-fire 

 of the Basuto children. He does not lie on his side, like one 

 really tired, but idly lolls on his back. 



3. r d 1, s, 



Ha ke hide ke bapala I no longer play 



Ke se ngoana e monye-nyane I'm not a little child : 



Kulu-pana, Kulu-pana ! Wallow, roll on the ground ! 



* The accent of the native words is on the penultimate syllable unless 

 otherwise marked. 



