Songs of the Copper Eskimos 313 



lesser units. As the song was sung, however, the larger ones seemed to fit the 

 case better. The mfetre is more regular in this version. The melody is made 

 smoother and more plastic by the introduction of the sixth degree, below the 

 tonic. The tune begins, as in the previous case, on the third degree of the major 

 scale on the final beat of the measure and ends on the second. 



The second song is especially interesting for its metre. In the first two 

 phrases it is perfectly regular and then settles into an order of 3, 3, 3, 4 from 

 which it does not deviate until the last measure, which although only actually 

 three beats long, theoretically should be four, to include the first note of the 

 song, which is a final beat. There is one exception in the presence of the rest, 

 which is probably not an integral part of the song, and which perhaps might not 

 be taken at the same point again, if at all. It is interesting to observe how the 

 extension of the B phrases is sufiiciently long to exactly compensate for the 

 lack of a fourth individual phrase to balance the second A phrase. The song 

 should be compared with the B phrase of No. 104 which has the same general 

 metric swing. 



The song begins on the first beat of the measure, on the fifth of the major 

 scale and ends on the second degree. 



