On the Eskimo Music. 45 
In conclusion I may summarise the main points of the present 
paper. 
The melodies of the East Greenlanders are characterized by 
rhythm which is skillfully and logically carried out. In regard to 
tones, they have not reached the stage of using a definite scale. 
But excluding the finer intervals, the melodic material embraces 
quite few groups of tones. The majority of the melodies range 
over a fifth or a sixth and they use from 2 to 6 tones. Recitative 
melodies are not rare. The concluding strophes of the melodies 
often have a special form. 
The songs of the Smith Sound Eskimo, North-West Green- 
landers and Central Eskimo are related. A distinct tendency can 
be noticed towards a pentatonic scale without half-tones. In the 
construction of the strophe, these melodies do not seem to have 
such a definite form as those of the East Greenlanders. 
The melodies noted in South-West Greenland are very strongly 
Europeanised. 
