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Show * DENS MORE] NORTHERN UTE MUSIC 73 point and immediately rising to a higher one. This, in the outline, may suggest the bounding or leaping of an animal. In the Bear dance songs, however, the higher point of such a series is more uniform than tm mm » No. 4. No. 6. » HHl No. 7. No. 8. FIG. 1.- Plots, Group 1 ( Bear dance) in the Sioux songs, producing what might be termed a " horizontal type" of plot. This appears in a less marked degree in the plots of the hand game song. ( See p. 181.) TABULATED ANALYSIS OF BEAR DANCE SONGS MELODIC ANALYSIS TABLE IA.- TONALITY Major tonality Minnr tonality, Total Number of songs 12 5 17 Serial Nos. of songs 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,12,13,14,15 16, 17. 1, 2, 9,10, 11. TABLE 2A.- Beginning on the- Octave Seventh Sixth Fifth Third Second Keynote Total - FIRST NOTE OF SONG- ITS RELATION Number of songs 2 1 1 3 8 1 1 17 TO KEYNOTE Serial Nos. of songs 3,4. 10. 14. 1, 6, 11. 2, 7, 8,12,13,15, 16,17. 5. 9. |