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Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 

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1 1 ; :j ; J ' -1^;^ ^ 



c|3 * • 



b*-k 



yaoj-e yanj-e ya(T)-& aaiirjAiyjafljAtrjaifn a ya a ha ya* 



(l.) "Record bd>d from here on. 



No. 65. Record IV. C. 48 

 No tonality is established 



Measures Beats 

 3 11 



12 



20 



12 



? (fault in the record) 4? 



19 



12 

 16? 



12 



12 



12 



12 



The metric regularity of this song is almost perfect while there is a strong 

 tendency m favour of the same number of measures to the phrase. There is 

 ot course, considerable exact repetition, or repetition with small variations 

 wmcn do not affect the general impression of the same thing being sung over 

 ^X^'^^ll The arrangement of phrases for all but the last four suggests the 

 pisik with prelude, but there are no verses and no refrains in this song, which 

 IS a continuous repetition of burden syllables. The tonality is vague but the 

 j-nytbms are strongly pronounced and are as follows:— 



\nn\ J nnn .,nnn\ 



The song begins on the last half of the first beat of the measure, but the 

 pitch is so wandering that it is not worth while trying to conjecture just what 

 place the first tone takes in the general scale. The end of each phrase is about 

 on the same tone, b or c, and presumably the song ends in this neighbourhood 

 when fiiiished, although some songs make astonishing modulations and departures 

 that finish them far from where they began, another point which differentiates 

 them clearly from American Indian songs. 



