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Show DENSMOBE] NORTHERN UTE MUSIC 209 The pitches of the notes having been obtained from the transcribed record, 28 the completed musical transcription is obtained as given in figure 3 [ pi. 15]. The revised location of the drumbeats is shown by the dots below the score. One of the interesting results of the quantitative transcription of this phrase is the fact that it agrees so well with the original musical transcription. There is no essential difference. Perhaps the omission of the measure in 3- 4 time is not justified, though the exact time value is as given in figure 3 [ pi. 15]. A more extended study would certainly make possible an exact transcription of the whole song, but the close agreement of the two methods hardly justifies the great amount of labor involved in the photographic method. This study was undertaken principally to learn what could be done if it were desirable. LAME DANCE- NO. 39 The portion of the music of the Lame dance of about 15 seconds' duration as reproduced by the phonograph was photographed with the phonodeik, making a film record about 19 feet long. The part of the song which is photographed begins when the stylus of the reproducer of the phonograph is about 2 ^ inches from the beginning end of the wax cylinder record. The original musical transcription of the portion photographed is given in figure 4 [ pi. 16]. The purpose of the study was to determine the relation of the drumbeats to the rhythm of the voice. The record of a drumbeat appears on the photograph as a short series of vibrations of the pattern shown in figure 20. Thirteen consecutive drumbeats have been identified, and they have been marked by *' s and numbered by serial numbers in circles, as ® , @. The dots in a row below the sound record are time signals, one one- hundredth second apart. The numbers below the dots between the *' s are the time intervals between the drumbeats in hundredths of a second. The notes of the music which have distinct accents as heard on the phonograph are marked A- G on both the score, figure 4 [ pi. 16], and on the upper edge of the photograph. Each note of the score is marked with a letter, as a, b, c- wf and the same notes when identified are similarly marked on the photograph. There is a remarkable regularity in the beats of the drum. The 12 intervals between beats, in hundredths of a second, are 92, 92, * A certified test of the author's pitch discrimination was made in 1914 by Prof. Carl E. Seashore, dean of the Graduate College, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. 25043°- 22 14 |