746 Transactions. 
Mr. Davies’s essay is much fuller in the first edition than in the 
the Maori would say, “ Yes, that’s right," on the phase being s : 
t must be remarked that the notes of the songs given by Davies € 
not all conform to the enharmonic scale, the lower tetrachord of which, 
the tonic A, is as under :— 
a= 
The various accidentals employed in the notation of Maori music n 
represented by the following signs, of which those marked half-sharp 
half-flat are the ordinary sharp and flat of European music :— 
ff = quarter-sharp ; $ = half-sharp; #— three-quarter sharp 
F= quarter-flat ; b = half-flat ; [-= three-quarter flat. 
In the full seale, built of two tetrachords—the Dorian enharmonic scale S 
—a tone separated the highest and lowest notes of the resp 
tetrachords :— 
айн be seen that in the songs recorded by Davies the wide inter’ 
may contain intermediate notes, and | 
an accompaniment of the voice; the rise and fall of the melody 
sponded more or legs with the natural tunes of speech; harm 
Present, was quite rudimentary. aM 
The writer, after hearing many Maori songs and many pakeha i 
songs, came to the conclusion that there was only one way by wa 
scale employed by the Maori of | 
detected. „Те Was at least one musical instrument in commo: 
among the old-time Maori upon which definite intervals were produ 
е koauau. Аз it has been repeatedly said by the Maori that there 
no tunes without words, 
pears with the intervals used in sin 
\ gin E 
u àn instrument of the flute kind, and was made 
dod or bone (вее Plate 83, figs. 1, 2, 3, and Plate 85, figs. 1-4). Like 
flute, it was pierced on the side with holes, in number from опе to 
