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and so distinctly major in tonality, 40 per cent of the intervals are 

 minor thirds. The song contains 60 progressions, 37 of which are 

 downward and 23 upward. It will ])e recalled that the average num- 

 ))or of progressions in comparatively modern songs is 31.3. 



No. 131. "His Horses He Granted Me" 



Sung by Two Shields 



Voice J — 58 

 Drim not recorded 



(Catalogue No. 543) 



AVa - kaij - taij - ka ce- wa - ki - ya a- wa - ku we 



ta-suij-ke ko ma-ku we - lo he 



Wakaij^taijka Wakaij^taijka 



<5ewa''kiya 1 pray to 



awa^ku we I^ringing home 



ta^ug^ko his horses 



ko also 



ma^ku welo' (he) granted me 



Atialysis. — In determinmg the keynote of a song the test by the 

 ear seems permissible, and by this test the song under analysis is 

 transcribed as being in the key of A, although the seventh and third 

 tones of that key do not appear in the melody. The omission of 

 these tones places the song in the first five-toned scale, according to the 

 system of pentatonic scales given by Helmholtz. (See p. 7.) One 

 instance of a song on the first five-toned scale is found in the analj^zed 

 Chippewa songs. (See song No. 116, Bulletin 53.) A descending 

 fourth characterizes this melody. It appears as E-B m the first two 

 measures, followed by D-A and A-E, these progressions being 

 repeated in the latter part of the song, which contains the words. 

 The tonality of the song is major, tliough more than half the intervals 

 are minor thirds. 



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