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Show 124 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [ BULL. 75 SOCIAL DANCE SONGS- Continued MELODIC ANALYSIS- continued TABLE 12c.- INTERVALS IN UPWARD PROGRESSION Serial Nos. of songs Interval of a- Ninth Octave Seventh Major sixth... Minor sixth... Fifth..... Fourth Major third... Minor third... Major second.. Minor second. Total. TABLE 13c.- AVERAGE NUMBER OF SEMITONES IN AN INTERVAL Tota 1 number of intervals 668 Total number of semitones 1,667 Average number of semitones in an interval 2.4 TABLE 14c.- KEY Number of songs Serial Nos. of songs Key of- A major B flat major... B major B minor D flat major... D major E major F sharp minor, G major G sharp minor Third lacking. Total 60. 36,46. 30,32,34. 49. 44. 51. 35,39,40,41,43,46,48. 31. 47. 38,42. 33,37. 22 RHYTHMIC ANALYSIS TABLE 16c.- PART OF MEASURE ON WHICH SONG BEGINS Serial Nos. of songs Beginning on unaccented part of measure Beginning on accented part of measure. -. Total 32,35,38,44,46,48. 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 37,39,40,41, 42,43,45,47,49,50,51. |