A9 HJALMAR THUREN. 
— = = Sa 
Solo 
De mu pepe > ==! == 
= = 
Whether the melody aie comes from East Greenland must 
remain an unsettled question. 
With its recitative strophes and the melody constructed on the 
principal tones Е sharp — АВС sharp , the melody stands in close rela- 
tion to the North Greenland songs. It reminds us strikingly of the 
melodies Nos. 18, 21 and 19 in Thalbitzer’s collection from North 
Greenland, the last of which (19) и. as follows : 
=,  Q 
== -— SE Lu ЕЕ 
AS == y 379 = 
Ss — 
| 
ur 
= ze | 
A number of West Greenland melodies have been published, 
which are intermediate forms between European and Greenland 
songs. In 1859 “Otte grønlandske Smaasange” were published in 
Greenland (Godthaab) and in Berggreen’s collection of Greenland 
melodies, in addition to the above-mentioned melody and 3 melodies 
of the “gronlandske Smaasange”, we find 8 melodies recorded in 
1857 by the wife of Pastor Janssen. 
The “оНе grønlandske Smaasange” have been harmonized and 
have Greenlandic text of a jesting nature. The melodies are all in 
the major key and contain very simply formed strophes. There is 
no doubt that European folk-songs form the basis of these melodies. 
Among other things, we find in melody No.6 the following strophes, 
well known from a melody occurring all over Europe which pro- 
bably indicates the simplest form of folk-song in major key. 
ЕЕ 
1 Melody №. 5 has most probably the same basis. Regarding the range of this 
melody see also O. Fleischer, Zur vergleichenden Liedforschung, Sammelbande 
4. intern. Musikgesellschaft Ш, 2 (1902) and Hjalmar Thuren, Folkesangen paa 
Færøerne, pp. 247—248. | 
