. Bulletin. Ethnology. 80 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BnLi,. 165 SONGS FOR CHILDREN Two songs for children are here presented. Lucero said that his mother sang them to him when he was a child, to put him to sleep. The first song of the group was said to be the song with which the horned toad put her children to sleep. It was said "the song has no words because the horned toad cannot ; The records of both songs are slower and softer at the close, this being the customary manner of singing the songs. (Catalog No. 2002) No. 57. Song of the horned toad when putting her children to
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 80 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BnLi,. 165 SONGS FOR CHILDREN Two songs for children are here presented. Lucero said that his mother sang them to him when he was a child, to put him to sleep. The first song of the group was said to be the song with which the horned toad put her children to sleep. It was said "the song has no words because the horned toad cannot ; The records of both songs are slower and softer at the close, this being the customary manner of singing the songs. (Catalog No. 2002) No. 57. Song of the horned toad when putting her children to sleep J i 108. slower and softer Analysis.—The chief interest of this melody lies in the treatment of the rhythmic unit. After two occurrences the second measure of the unit is changed from double to triple time, thus changing the accent on a quarter note. The melody contains the tones of the fourth (major) 5-toned scale and has a generally descend- ing trend. The opening phrase is based on the descending tetrachords E-D-B, D-B-A, and A-G-D. The fifth above the keynote is a particularly prominent tone, occurring in both the upper and lower octaves. In the next song a woman sings to her child about a situation that would be famihar to the little listener. A crane has stolen some com. The sound supposed to be made by the departing crane is heard in the first four measures and at the close, this being a syllable resembling tui, tui on the quarter notes with shorter syllables on the shorter tones. The words occur with the descending phrases, which have a beseeching quality. These phrases have the same compass but each is in a 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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