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1154 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY VOLUME 7
to be looser than that of the first, there is, nevertheless,
a relationship between melody and text. "The more
I worked it over, the more interesting it became. I
began to see melodic repetitions, transposed, sometimes
up, but usually down. X^ for example, means X with
most of its weight up an interval of a fourth. A4 means
transposed down a fourth; B3 means B down a third,
etc. Instead of the puzzling analysis I had originaUy,
it all falls into place as six basic phrases, much varied
and transposed, but aU pretty regular. It doesn't quite
fit your suggested phrases in red ink [marked by me
on a Xerox copy of the original score], but it comes very
close to it," Analysis of this song was difficult because
Frank Italio had begun it after its companion song
(1952, 7-2-A) with hardly a break, but then had interrupted
it in the middle, giving the impression that he
was singing another song.
The structure of this song is very complex, with many
repetitions of the same or simUar sequences of musical
phrases. The latter are indicated by letters (with the
variations explained by McAUester), and the groups of
phrases are designated by Roman numerals. Only the
syUables that may be meaningful, or are clearly defined,
are given below.
[Read down]
Stanza I
Stanza II (false start) Stanza II Stanza III
I: X
A
B
C
D
E
'iyUii [you?]
'aka ['AkA on it, or
'Aga for it; possibly
'for you'l
qe'a [dayhght]
'aha [comes or brings]
yel [Raven]
'ehe yaha {or 'eya,
that?)
X
A
B
'UiUii
'ahaha
qe'a [breaks off
to teU part of
story]
X^
B
D
E
'ihi heheheh
ckul telihika
yel [Raven]
'eya 'aha
X
A
B
C
D
E
'ihi
'aka
qe'a [dayhght]
'aha [brings]
yel [Raven]
'eya [that]
II: X^
A
B
C
D'
E'
'ihjd heh
'aha-kaha
qe'a [dayhght]
'ahaha ya
'unax [or 'AUAX out
of it] du [he]
'ukuts Pie breaks]
X'
A
B
C
D'
E'
'i
'aka
qe'a [dayhght]
'aya
'unax du [out of it,
he]
'ukutsi [breaks]
'eyaha
X'
A
B/
C
D'
E'
'i-yuhu
hu wucl [wu wal'?
he cracks]
'a
'iyisa [soon]
[speaks]
['u]nax du [out of
it, he]
'ukutsgci [breaks,
maybe]
(FI ends: hut6
'awA! "That's
aU!")
III:X
A4
B3
Cs
D4
E4
x„
Y
hihihi
'aka [on it, for it]
qe'a [dayhght]
'aha
'unax du [out of it, he]
'ukutci [breaks]
hihihihi
'a 'ayaha
Xl
As
B4
C4
D4
E4
X5
Y
'Uii
'aka
qe-ha [dayhght]
'aya
'unax du [out of it he]
'uk'uts-gci [breaks,
maybe]
'a ha
'ahaha