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ANALYSIS OF SONGS 



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Song No. 2 (p. 307) also appears to have been built on the principle 

 of three. (See tabular analysis No. 2.) Three different melodic 

 phrases are repeated with a slight variation by beginning the second 

 A phrase on a lower note that suggests that the second three phrases 

 are complementary to the first tliree. This peculiarity persists in 

 the repetition of the six phrases as a group as the song proceeds. 

 Because of this I have used roman numerals to indicate even larger 

 divisions of the song than the plirase divisions. The two sets of com- 

 plementary plirases which constitute that portion of the song num- 

 bered I are repeated with slight variations in other respects than the 

 low note just mentioned, to form Part II, but for Part III only the 

 first three phrases are given. The structural plan of presenting the 

 full design twice and then only part of it to finish with is similar 

 to that of No. 1 in its larger aspects. The similarity is between 

 divisions containing three phrases doubled (or six phrases) in No. 2, 

 as against divisions containing only three phrases not doubled in 



