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begin on pitch 2 and remain there until the end of the phrase, where 

 there is a rise to pitch 4. This rise is accompanied by stress, which 

 is in addition to the morphological stress on the word, if there is one. 

 The position of the phrase-final stress and rise to pitch 4 is as follows: 

 it occurs on the next to last vowel of the plu-ase if that vowel (a) is 

 directly followed (without intervening length) by the phrase-final 

 vowel, or (b) is separated from the latter only by length and is at the 

 same time either identical with it or morphologically stressed. An 

 example of (a) is wdih in sentence 5. Examples of (b) are to.'ne^ni- 

 koswenyd^to : ok in sentence 63, and ^eyof^eohtoni'.ak in sentence 20. 

 Otherwise the stress and rise is on the last vowel of the phrase (see 

 examples passim). 



In the sentence-final phrase there is most commonly a rise to 

 pitch 3 at some (apparently nondistinctive) point during the phrase 

 and a fall to pitch 1 on the last vowel (or vowel sequence), which is 

 again stressed. 



Other patterns occur in chanting, but those described above are 

 overwhelmingly the most frequent and characteristic. 



Preaching is conspicuous as the style in which the Good Message 

 of Handsome Lake is recited. It occurs in other rituals too, and is 

 found in sections 1, 13, 14, and 18 to 22 of the Thanksgiving Dance 

 recorded here. Its alternation with chanting seems to have some 

 semantic function, indicating, although not consistently, the begin- 

 ning of a major subdivision of the text. Here, at least, it signals the 

 first section of the entire text, and the shift from terrestrial to celes- 

 tial items at section 13 (cf. p. 7). 



Preaching utilizes five pitches. Its patterns are more intricate and 

 varied than those of the chanting style, but several characteristic 

 features can be easily described. 



Probably its most characteristic featm'e is an added stress that im- 

 mediately precedes the usual phrase-final stress. In phrases that are 

 not sentence-final this stress is accompanied by a falling pitch, with 

 a partial rise on the phrase-final stress. Typical pitch patterns are 

 523, 423, and 412, the last two usually preceded by a phrase contain- 

 ing the first. In the sentence-final phrase there is very often a rise 

 to pitch 4 before the end of the phi'ase, with a fall from 4 to 1 on the 

 final vowel. Many sentences contain an initial phrase which begins 

 on pitch 4 and ends with a rise to pitch 5. All of these above-men- 

 tioned patterns are exemplified in sentence 465. Variations of them, 

 and some entirely different patterns, can be found throughout the 

 sections of the Thanksgiving Dance containing this style. 



