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Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



Refrain 



V. 2. 



Refrain 



A number of notes in this song seem uncertain in pitch, that is, they vary 

 to a slight degree from others which seem true. No definite tonality predom- 

 inates. The metre is very regular two-part and the song resembles the pisik 

 with prelude of the Copper Eskimos, but the first verse obtains its material 

 directly from the prelude while the second introduces new ideas, as far as these 

 are possible in a song in which one type of measure, c, is so prevalent. The 

 connective is unusual in its situation between the verse and the refrain rather 

 than after the latter. It is not the same in any two instances while a number of 

 other variations keep the song from being as regular formally as it is metrically. 

 The continuity is broken twice, once by a rest of four beats in the first verse, 

 which was no doubt unintentional and has been omitted from the calculations 

 in the analysis, and by talking just before the beginning of the second verse. 

 Probably the extension after E in the refrain of the first verse should be the 

 complete phrase F, but this was interrupted by talking. 



The tune begins on the first beat of the measure on the tonic if we can 

 regard the tonality as more nearly G major than anything else. In that case 

 the end is on the second degree, which is a very prominent tone throughout. 



