DENSMoRE] MANDAN AND HIDATSA MUSIC 135 
No. 66. Dog Society Serenade (a) (Catalogue No. 853) 
Recorded by Hotpine EAGLE 
VOICE @ - 66 
DRUM @ = 66 
Drum-rhythm similar to No.32 
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Analysis —The tone material of this song is peculiar, the second 
and sixth tones of the octave being lacking and the fourth and sev- 
enth repeatedly sharped. The differences of pitch were clearly 
given in all the renditions, though in instances of this kind it should 
not be understood that the sharped tones were sung exactly on 
“piano pitch.” <A lesser difference in pitch is indicated by the sign +- 
placed above a note. Only seven complete measures occur in this 
song, but the entire range of 10 tones is included in six measures. 
The song contains 24 intervals, only two of which are larger than 
a major third. One-fourth of the intervals are semitones, which is 
an unusually large percentage of these intervals, not only in the 
present series, but in the music of other tribes analyzed according to 
this method. 
