/Song's 0/ the Copper Eskimos 379 



Measures Beats 

 3 13 



5 171 



The chief point of interest in this song is the rhythmic elaboration of the 

 Jittle melodic ideas, although often a changed measure bar obscures them some- 

 what, as for instance in the D phrase, which has several melodic aflSnities with 

 B. The form, if complete, is interesting because of the return to the themes set 

 forth in the first two phrases, a plan that we have encountered before but rarely, 

 as in the case of the Longspur's weather incantation from the Copper Eskimos. 



The song begins on the first beat of the measure, on the third degree and 

 ends on the same tone which is the general level. 



