34 HJALMAR THUREN. 
The 37 melodies! given in the Appendix contain no less than 
26 different scales. Only the following scales are used in more than ° 
one melody. | 
A—C (mel. 32, 5, 25) 
G A—C (1, 10) 
FG A—C (6, 20, 22) 
F—A—CD (27, 19) 
Е@А-=Ср (2123, 29.7) 
FGABfatCD (34, 37) 
Yet it must be repeated here, that the intervals used by the 
Greenlanders do not everywhere correspond to ours. 
Recitative strophes are much more common than with East 
Greenlanders. Sometimes the singer keeps to one and the same tone. 
More frequently the general recitative occurs with A as tonus currens, 
G or Gsharp on descending, B or Bflat on rising. The recitative 
character is maintained in most strophes, which only range over 
two or three tones. 
The melodies of the Smith Sound Eskimo do not seem to 
be so definitely formed as those of the East Greenlanders, whilst 
on the other hand they range over a larger number of different 
scales. Among the East Greenlanders the range of the melody is 
most often given already by the A period; the B and C periods only 
give variants on the tones once chosen. Among the Smith Sound 
Eskimo we obtain the impression that they have at their disposal 
a certain number of melodic motifs, composed by themselves or 
inherited, which are bound together to a melody, and that the 
range of the melody depends upon whether the new motif is con- 
nected with the foregoing, higher or deeper tones. 
This appears very characteristically in the refrain reproduced by 
Stein, which in its different variants is to be considered as the 
national song of the Smith Sound Eskimo. 
R. Stein, Eskimo Music, p. 340—41 (transposed): 
Ae DE Des men 
pele — 
Ha-ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ha-ya ya etc. 
ee Е a 
gs 2” Sas o 8 8 HE af 
1 No. 36, which shows the time as counted by the Eskimo during the melody, is 
not included. 
