Memoirs of the International Congress of Anthropology
Memoirs of the International Congress of Anthropology
Charles Staniland Wake
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It is enough to say that the results obtained were similar and went to confirm the views suggested by our study of the first one. No. 2 is plainly in the key of D major, and every phrase of it implies harmony as clearly as does any civilized music. It is built on the tonic, dominant and subdominant chords; its tonality is much more strongly marked than that of No. 1; and it ends with the plagal cadence which I have so often found in the Omaha music and elsewhere. No. 3 is just as dearly in the ...key of E minor. It certainly implies the tonic and dominant chords, and the cadence is best made with the subdominant before the tonic, i. e., a plagal cadence. Although this chord is not necessarily implied in the melody, it makes the close more natural, and is most satisfactory alike Digitized by Google 164 THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY. to civilized and uncivilized ears. All this is directly in the line of my previous investigations in the Omaha music, and tends to confirm the conclusions toward which those investigations seemed clearly to point.
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