. Bulletin. Ethnology. DENSMOnE] Makah J=69 te=F^ NOOTKA AND QUILEUTE MUSIC No. 79. Song Before Feast Recorded by Young Doctob 161 (Catalog No. 1308) ggi-^s^Rg^a £?=& -=-»-p-=^ "^^ rF=m=&4=^. Pi ^-» # > > I ^=A f^ q S^^ iJ: |: -4-V- it: # [A: Analysis.—This is a particularly pleasing melody with the pro- longed tones and short tones followed by rests that characterize Makah songs. It has a rhythmic unit and a short phrase near the close which occurs twice. More than half the intervals are whole tones and almost one-third are minor thirds. After the food was served the follow
. Bulletin. Ethnology. DENSMOnE] Makah J=69 te=F^ NOOTKA AND QUILEUTE MUSIC No. 79. Song Before Feast Recorded by Young Doctob 161 (Catalog No. 1308) ggi-^s^Rg^a £?=& -=-»-p-=^ "^^ rF=m=&4=^. Pi ^-» # > > I ^=A f^ q S^^ iJ: |: -4-V- it: # [A: Analysis.—This is a particularly pleasing melody with the pro- longed tones and short tones followed by rests that characterize Makah songs. It has a rhythmic unit and a short phrase near the close which occurs twice. More than half the intervals are whole tones and almost one-third are minor thirds. After the food was served the following song was sung, accom- panied by the clapping of hands. This is a "family song" of Young Doctor's and he said that he is the only person living at the present time who can sing it. The song is so old that the meaning of the words is lost except that one sentence means "A chief is in a canoe with many ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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