6^8 AFRICAN NATIVE MELODIES. 



any (but those frankly modern) which chd nut correspond to this 

 scale, among the Snto and Chwana tribes. Also among the 

 Bondei of East Africa 1 found the following: s t'l d r S| , then 

 d d' S d' , then d' 1 d' 1 S 1 , but I confess that others of that 



part were otherwise. Also all but one of Father Torrend's 

 collection, and all but one, I think, of the Zulu tunes of Father 

 Mayr, whose sad death lovers of native lore must deplore. I 

 found one Pentatonic only, but that a lullaby, and therefore ])ro- 

 bably old, among those Baroness Posse so carefully collected, and 

 allowed me to exhibit with my last musical paper. None of the 

 native pianos I have tried are confined to the Scotch scale ; a 

 Zulu Zanze, which I had tried or seen quoted somewhere, gives 

 d' 1 s I'l r d 1| S| f| (!) Hi . All but the pemultimate note 

 are in the Scotch scale. 



A si'folntnlo, however, gives d r d S| and a lesiba, in m s I'l I'l d : 

 r I'l r d. Other pentatonic scraps my ear has caught are in Suto 

 d' S 1 S Ml a threshing song ; S I'l S I'l r a dance tune ; d' r' d' 1 : 

 S II r : S d S heard at Tsikoane in Leribe ; d' r' d' 1 , f S 1 : 

 sl S I'l d r d I heard somewhere. The second is practically the 

 former pentatonic phrase transposed a 4th. 



Examples of Modern Native Tunes (in the modern scale) by 

 way of contrast : 



s I'l r d d, r d 1| S| s, 



1. Ai-ko-na white man. Ai-ko-na black man. 

 Whether it's a white man. Whether it's a black man. 



d r f s f r I'l d 



Mi-na hambi-le fu-na skof 



One's going round to look for skof ! 



d r I'l f s I'l f r s s s s 



2. Siya ku bo-na Sonke kahle bitje-nya-na 

 We shall all be glad to get a little bit. 



Hla-la la-pa pan-si ma-si-hambe. 

 Sit here on the floor let us go! 



s d' t Is I'l I'l in f s :- r r r 



3. Mosali Mo-ho-lo O'nti-mi-le jua-la nti-mi-le 



I'lf r d d d t|d 



Jua-la nti-mile jua-la 



d I'l Is in I'l PI f s r r r 

 Sti-ma sti-ma sti-ma-na jua-la sti-ma-na 



PI fpir d d d t| d 



jua-la sti-ma-na jua-la 



i.e. — The old lady has stinted me of beer Oh don't 



do that ! Stiuia is presumably for 5^ tunc don't stint. 



in r PI f in r in f in r d r d 



4. Ha le se le ka Paradeiseng : Oho m'nyako 'a Adam le Eva. 



( sa?) 

 When you were still in Paradise. Oh ! the gate of Adam and Eve ! 



