Songs of the Copper Eskimos 



239 



Phrases 

 BC 



e bMe d' e'ide b^ b^) 

 §2322 2§ 222 



Measures Beats 

 8 18 



A' 



Conn. 



a b* b= c b ? 



b 

 3 



12 



Although it seems as if the measure divisions as marked here must be 

 wrong in places, repeated tests with the record leave room in the transcriber's 

 opinion for no other arrangement. The difficulty lies chiefly with the measures 

 d and e and their variants. While there are points about the song that are 

 reminiscent of the pisik the arrangement of the phrases and the connectives is 

 different. Possibly the BC phrase might be split into two, but there appears to 

 be no natural division except at the point where the extension begins and the 

 extension has hardly enough individual character to stand alone as a phrase. 

 Note how nearly the A' phrase approaches the A in the number of beats although 

 the measures of which the two are composed are different. The song begins on 

 the first beat on the fifth degree and ends on the third. 



