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melody; thus Nos. 6 and 9 in Bulletin 45 are based on the descending 

 intervals D-A, A-E, ending with the descending tonic triad D-B-G in 

 the closing measures. No. 3 in Bulletin 45 and No. 82 in the present 

 volume are based on the intervals C shar})-G sharp, F sharp-C sharp. 

 Second, the melody is based on two descending intervals of a fourth, 

 the second interval being only one tone below the first. No. 28 in the 

 present volume is based on the intervals E flat-B flat, D flat-A flat, 

 (See also No. 2.3.) Third, the interval of the fourth is especially 

 prominent but this interval is, as it were, inclosed in the interval of 

 the fifth; thus in the j)resent instance (No. 22) the intervals which 

 form the framework of the first four measures are the fifths E flat- 

 A flat, D flat-G flat, but the principal intervals are the fourths D flat- 

 A flat, C flat-G flat. The next four measures are characterized by 

 descending fourths, the third of the tonic chord appearing for the 

 first time in the final measure. The close of the song suggests that 

 there should be another measure ending on G flat but that G flat was 

 below the range of the singer's voice. 



Since 11 per cent of the series of 340 songs have a common melodic 

 characteristic, we note with interest that they have also a common 

 subject, all being songs concerning motion (20) or animals (15), in 

 some instances the two ideas being combined. The single exception 

 is a love song which contains the words ''I sit here thinking of her." 

 While the idea of motion is not expressed therein, it can not be con- 

 sidered entirely absent from the mind of the singer. 



The numbers and titles (or words) of this group of songs are as 

 follows : 



(a) SONGS CONCERNING MOTION 



Bulletin 45: 



No. 6. " I am raising my pipe " 



No. 9. "A bubbling spring comes from the hard ground" 



No. 10. "You are going around the Mide^ lodge" 



No. 63. "The shell goes toward them and they fall " 



No. 86. "The flame goes up to my body" 



No. 91. "To the spirit land I am going, I am walking" 



No. 109. "The big bear, to his lodge I go often " 



No. 132. "The women are enjoying it [the dance] with us" 

 Present volume: 



No. 22. "I arise from the flowing spring" 



No. 32. "The prairie land whence I arise" 



No. 34. "The Sioux women gather up their wounded" 



No. 39. " OdjiVwe brings back our brother " 



No. 105. "Go with me" 



No. 106. "Now I go" 



No. 110. "I go around weeping" 



No. 111. "Come, let us sing" 



No. 121. CaVuno'ga dance 



No. 162. "The sound of his approaching footsteps" 



No. 170. "Work steadily, I am afraid they will take you away from me" 



No. 174. "You shall depart" 



