IV CONTENTS 



Part 1. Description and analysis — Continued 



The dance cycles — Continued page 



Social Dances — fish type 23 



Fish Dance . 23 



Raccoon Dance 24 



Chicken Dance 25 



Sharpen-a-stick 25 



Choose-a-partner 25 



Miscellany of songs not adequately recorded at Coldspring, but 



in Tonawanda series 25 



Fishing 25 



Cherokee Dance 25 



Grinding-an-arrow 25 



Knee-rattle and Devil Dance 25 



Alligator 26 



Marriage Dance 26 



Musical analysis 27 



The material 27 



Performance 27 



Instruments 27 



Singing 27 



Method of study 28 



Transcription 28 



Comparative procedure 29 



Nucleus and development 29 



TonaUty 29 



Weighted scales 29 



Focus 32 



Composite scales 33 



Progressions — intervals 33 



Range or compass 34 



Summary 35 



Tempo 36 



Rhythmic figures 36 



Instruments 36 



Melodies 37 



Meter 40 



Structure 40 



Nuclear construction 40 



Consecutive construction 42 



Distribution 42 



Manipulation 43 



One or two themes 43 



Pattern analysis 44 



Contours 44 



Types of antiphony 45 



Interlonghouse variation and personal creativity 46 



Summary 49 



Choreographic analysis 50 



Performance 50 



The setting 50 



Participation 50 



