Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla, under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry : illustrated by numerous plates . h Mr. Hender-son, I wrote down from their singing, I can only promise that the notesare correctly given, and that I have done my best to put them into the time 542 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY in which they are sung. Unharmonious as they will appear to musicalears, we thought them pleasing when sung in good time by a number offemale
Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla, under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry : illustrated by numerous plates . h Mr. Hender-son, I wrote down from their singing, I can only promise that the notesare correctly given, and that I have done my best to put them into the time 542 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY in which they are sung. Unharmonious as they will appear to musicalears, we thought them pleasing when sung in good time by a number offemale voices. The first and much the most common of these is that in which the wellknown Greenland chorus, Amna aya, commences the performance, andis introduced between each verse, constituting about five-sixths of the wholesong. When the words of the song are introduced, the notes rise a little forthree or four bars, and then relapse again into the same hum-drum chorus asbefore, which to do it justice is well calculated to set the children to words of the song seem to be as interminable as those of ChevyChacefor the women will go on singing them for nearly half an hour,and then leave off one by one, not with their story but their breath They have a second song, varying from the preceding one very slightlyin the tune, and accompanied by the same chorus, but with differentwords. The third and last is the most tuneful of any of their songs. The ter-mination, which is abrupt and fanciful, is usually accompanied by a peculiarmotion of the head, and an expression of archness in the countenancewhich cannot be described by words.
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