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OCCASIONAL NOTES, 
Does the music contain progressions in semitones or 
chromatic intervals ? 
Are there Sune ee intervals than semitones, such as 
4 tones, + tones ? 
Are there peculiar progressions in certain intervals, 
which are of frequent occurrence in the tunes? If 
so, what are they ? 
Do the tunes usually conclude in the tonic (the key 
note, or the first interval of the scale)? Or if not, on 
what other interval ? 
Do the tunes contain modulations from one key into 
another? If so, describe the usual modulations ? 
Are there certain rythmical peculiarities predominant 
in the music? If so, what are they? 
Is the time of the music, generally, common time, 
triple time, or irregular ? 
Are there phrases, or passages, in the melodies, which 
are of frequent re-occurrence ? 
Have the airs of the songs re-occurrences of musical 
phrases which are traceable to the form of the 
poetry ? 
Have the people musical compositions which they re- 
gard as very old? and do these compositions exhibit 
the same characteristics which are found in the 
modern ones ? 
Are the compositions generally lively or grave ? 
Describe the Form of the various kinds of musical 
compositions. (Form being taken in its musical 
sense, as Sonata-form, etc.) 
If there is anything noteworthy about their composi- 
tions or manner of composing which has not been 
alluded to in the preceding questions, notice it. 
