26 HJALMAR THUREN. 
as the tonometric material shows that the pure fifth is by no means 
the only interval. 
The tendency of the Greenlanders in this case to sing from 
below upwards, is a feature which is not commonly met with among 
primitive races. As a rule, also, the songs of the East Greenlanders 
tend downwards. 
Melodies constructed on the first — third — fifth are also met 
with elsewhere, not only among Indian tribes but also, among others, 
in New Guinea! and the South Sea Islands. ? 
2. The second subdivision of group III (27 melodies) is closely 
related to the foregoing, as it includes melodies which contain the 
first, second, third and fifth. Here also the third (A flat A, A or —-А) 
is as a rule the tonus currens. The second is most often the transi- 
tional note. The melodic periods end as a rule on the deepest tone. 
The third fluctuates between major, minor and neutral third — 
a feature, which is found again not only among most aboriginals’, 
but also in European folk-songs. 
3. The third subdivision of this group (20 melodies) is closely 
connected with the two preceding, as only one tonal degree is added 
above to the melodies: D ог D flat. The tonus currens fluctuates be- 
tween Е and A; D or D fiat occur but seldom in the melodies. 
There remain only a small number of melodies. Several of them 
fall in the main under the groups mentioned: 
II Nos. 20, 50, 66, 68, 75. 
Ш Nos. 34, 40, fragment No. 53, 64, 77, 105. 
Outside the groups mentioned we have: No.17 (DFGA), No. 74 
(main tones CDFA), No. 122 (main tones C--F—A flat), Nos. 93, 96 
(both with main tones FG—C), No. 61, in part recitative melody, 
Nos. 7, 124 (cf. note p. 17) and 67, which form а small, special 
group with the principal tones D—F—B fat. 
The East Greenland melodic material can thus be arranged 
under the following groups: 
I. Recitative melodies. 
II. Melodies with the scales: 1. C—FG, 2. C—FGA. 
1 Ш Kongress der internationalen Musikgesellschaft 1909. Bericht vorgelegt vom 
Wiener Kongressausschuss, p. 297 (Wien, Leipzig 1910). 
> L. Riemann, р. 26. 
5 Wallaschek, р. 170. Riemann р. 97 et seq. 
