DENSMORE] NORTHERN UTE MUSIC 101 
About half the progressions are whole tones, but the ascending fifth 
occurs twice, giving interest to the song as a whole. Five renditions 
were recorded and show no points of difference. 
PLOTS OF SONGS OF THE TURKEY DANCE 
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Fig, 4.—Plots, Group 3 (Turkey,danee) 
The plots of these songs show more uniformity than the plots of 
any other group of Ute songs. They are characterized chiefly by a 
sharply descending trend. 
Woman’s DANCE 
It was said that the Woman’s dance was obtained by the Utes from 
the Shoshoni. As already stated, it was danced at the same time as 
the Turkey dance. Only three of its songs were recorded. 
CHARACTERISTICS OF SONGS 
The songs were accompanied by beating on a large drum. The 
drum rhythm is the same as that in songs of the Woman’s dance 
recorded among the Chippewa. (See Bull. 45, p. 192.) It comprises 
an accented stroke and an unaccented stroke, the latter corresponding 
approximately to the third count of a triplet. A brief rest which 
separates these corresponds approximately to the second count of a 
triplet. In melodic compass these songs are smaller than the Turkey 
dance songs, and the progressions are larger. The largest range in 
any of these songs is nine tones, which was the smallest range in the 
Turkey songs, and 14 per cent of the intervals are a fourth, or larger 
than a fourth, as compared with 7 per cent of similar intervals in the 
Turkey dance songs. 
