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Show DENSMORE] NORTHERN UTE MUSIC 139 No. 66. Song used in treatment of sick ( o) ( Catalogue No. 757) Recorded by SINGER NO. 25 VOICE J- 66 . Dram not recorded SONGS NOS. 61- 66 Analysis.- These songs will be analyzed collectively, since, like the preceding group, they are the property of an individual and all pertain to one subject. In the preceding group a majority of the songs are major in tonality and begin with an upward progression. In this group of six songs five are major in tonality and four begin with an ascending interval. The keynote is the final tone in all the songs. Five begin with a 2- 4 measure- division, a peculiarity which occurred in seven of the. nine songs in the previous group recorded by Pa'gitS. None are harmonic in structure, though in four songs there is an evident harmonic feeling. It is interesting to note that the first three songs are in tempo J = 58, which was the tempo of two- thirds of Pa'gitS's songs. These, like his, are characterized by the interval of a fourth and a major second, about 17 per cent of the intervals being fourths and 60 per cent being major seconds. As these intervals do not characterize the entire material analyzed by the writer, it is interesting to find them in both groups of songs used in treating the sick. The interval of a fourth, as frequently stated, has been found to characterize songs concerning motion, and the major second is usually a passing tone. In these two songs it occurs most commonly as an ascending followed by a descending progression. A rhythmic unit occurs in all the songs recorded by this singer and was present in all but one of the songs recorded by Pa'gitS. In the first three of the present group ( Nos. 61- 63) the rhythmic unit is characterized by a count- division of two eighth notes, this being the only count- division in the unit of No. 61. In Nos. 64 and 65 we find a unit comprising two quarter notes followed by a half note, but in No. 65 there is a second unit having a slightly different count- |