22 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [RULL. 80 
MELODIC ANALYSIS—continued 
TABLE 8.—STRUCTURE 
F Mandan 
. Sioux songs 
Chippewa - and 
songs redler Sioux songs} Ute songs Pirdatcc Total 
songs 
Num-| Per |Num-} Per |Num-| Per |Num-| Per |Num-| Per |Num-| Per 
ber | cent | ber | cent) ber | cent ber | cent} ber | cent | ber | cent 
Melodies. 2052-8 5. en eens 222 66 iv 85 | 158 66 54 49 31 28 | 482 59 
Melodic with harmonic 
PAMOWOrK 2. fhe see aes ose 35 10 3 16 47 20 32 29 44 40 | 161 19 
Harm onic 8.52. scsi 83 CAM Bee oe | aera 33 14 24 22 35 380 | 175 21 
Ieregulat 2 oss. c cen neceas aac oanstee aeeane seemee ieee 7) Pepe eel Enenir Sqace 4 sacs|ars 85" YM = 
Total esesoie sees eee 340 atiwee 2025-322 ZA0:||Sa ss 110-5525 TIO! Sconce S20u\4eecee 
1 Songs are thus classified if contiguous accented tones do not bear a simple chord relation to each other. 
2 Songs are thus classified if only a portion of the contiguous accented tones bear a simple chord relation 
to each other. 
3 Songs are thus classified if all the contiguous accented tones bear a simple chord relation to each other. 
TABLE 9.—FIRST PROGRESSION—DOWNWARD AND UPWARD 
P Mandan 
. Sioux songs 
Chippewa |, - ; and 
ecorded by | Sioux songs} Ute songs : Total 
songs f Hidatsa 
Chippewa songs 
Num-} Per |Num-| Per |Num-| Per |Num-} Per |Num-| Per |Num-) Per 
ber | cent] ber | cent} ber | cent | ber | cent} ber | cent | ber | cent 
238 70 12 60 | 165 69 76 69 56 61 | 547 67 
102 380 8 40 75 31 34 31 54 49 | 278 53 
B4U ase Sas 20)\css2s 24D) cooee 1107 |S. 52 oe LOG | Sasa 20h eee 
“TABLE 10.—TOTAL NUMBER OF PROGRESSIONS—DOWNWARD AND UPWARD1 
é Mandan 
: Sioux songs 
pe a recorded by | Sioux songs| Ute songs ae Total 
gs Chi Hidatsa 
ppewa songs 
Num-| Per |Num-| Per |Num-| Per |Num-| Per |Num-| Per |Num-| Per 
ber | cent | ber | cent | ber | cent | ber | cent] ber | cent} ber | cent 
5, 422 65| 346 64) 4,651 63| 1, 887 61| 1,733 63)14, 039 64 
2, 864 35| 198 36) 2, 674 37] 1, 226) 39| 1,038 37) 8,000 36 
852865. 2.2 54d lo eee po20|Sacese 3 Palibi aces PR ALN epee. 22, 039). - ~~ 
1 Ina group of Slovak songs analyzed according to this methodit was found that the minor third occurred 
one-fourth to one-half as frequently as in Indian songs, while the minor second occurred from three to 
four times as frequently. (Bull. 75, Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. 55.) In the music of the Hindusit has been 
found that ‘‘The augmented Fourth and diminished Fifth, which we avoid,are common with them. . . 
No less surprising than the presence of intervals which seem to us unvocal is the comparative absence of 
what we should call vocalintervals—the Thirds, Perfect Fourth and Fifth, and the Sixths... . 
in fact, is habitually taken as a changing note: . 
indeed, in any way but as a harmonic interval.” Fox Strangways, Music of 
of tentative way: ... 
Hindostan, pp. 324-325. 
. . or agrace-note: . 
A Third, 
. . or, especially in ascent, nia sort 
