DENSMORE] NORTHERN UTE MUSIC 205 
Piots or RupIMENTARY SONGS 
A different method has been used in the “plotting” of the rudi- 
mentary songs. Heavy horizontal lines are used to represent the 
keynote and its octave, a light dotted line represents the third, and a 
heavy broken line represents the fifth. On these horizontal lines the 
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Fic. 19.—Plots, Group 15 (Rudimentary songs) 
progression of the accented melody tones is plotted by means of a 
curved line. It will be noted that, with few exceptions, the accented 
tones occur on the intervals represented by horizontal lines. Ac- 
cented tones occurring _on other intervals are represented by curves 
at approximately the correct distance between the horizontal lines. 
