Line 19. Position of Final Tone (III)

The relation of the final note to the total range of the song.

Read the Coding Guide for this Line. Listen to each example at least twice. Once you have listened to all the examples, take the Test which follows.

  1. N. America, Southeast U.S. Virginia Mountains. A modern hillbilly religious song in bluegrass style. Male group with strings. (Lomax #10, A4)
  2. Lowest note. S. America, French Guiana. The Kalina fish and grow manioc along the circum-Caribbean coast. Here they sing non-lexical syllables set in an irregular meter. Male solo. (Vianès, A1)
  3. Lower half. N.E. Europe, Lithuania. A sutartine (hocketing choral round), the oldest known Baltic song form, is stylistically related to the hocketing songs of S. Russia, Georgia, and African gatherers. (Former U.S.S.R. #11, B2)
  4. Upper half. C. Asia, Nepal, Tamang. (See Line 17, #8.) (Pignède, B2)

Test

Which form of Position of Final Tone is recorded here?
For each example below, choose the feature that best fits from the following scale.

Lowest
Lower
Midpoint
Upper half
Highest

Consult the Coding Guide as needed. Note your answers in order to check them against the answer key.

  1. C. India, Madhya Pradesh, Hill Saora tribe. A rice-field work song with much repetition and narrow range. (Sweden #3, B2) Reveal Answer
  2. C. Europe, Germany. Woodcutter’s yodel. (Wiora A4; see Line 10, #3.) Reveal Answer
  3. N.W. Europe, Scotland, Hebrides. Gaelic lyrics concerning the beauties of nature. Female leader alternating with mixed chorus. (Lomax #33, B 2) Reveal Answer
  4. C. Europe, N. Hungary. A ballad of an outlaw hero performed in declamatory style, with wide interval leaps and irregular meter. Male solo. (Hungary #1, A7) Reveal Answer
  5. C. Asia, Mongols (Buryat Mongols). Descendants of the riders of Genghis Khan employ an ornamented bardic style, as in this solo drinking song with a heterophonically related lute accompaniment. (Former U.S.S.R. #7, 4) Reveal Answer
  6. W. Europe, Spain, C. Spain, La Mancha. A petition to the Virgin for rain. Female solo. (Lomax #25, B9) Reveal Answer
  7. N. America, Western U.S. Western. A recently minted ballad in irregular meter. Male solo. (Goldstein #2, A2) Reveal Answer
  8. S. America, Brazil, Xingu River, Sukaramai. A song from the fishing and gardening clans of the riverine villages of the Xingu. (Schultz & Chiara, B6) Reveal Answer
  9. N. America, Southwest U.S. Southwest American variant of a British ballad about a noblewoman who eloped with a gypsy. Female solo. (Corlander #2, BII.2) Reveal Answer

Line 19 Test Answers: 1) Lowest note. 2) Upper half. 3) Lower half. 4) Lowest note. 5) Upper half. 6) Lowest note. 7) Lower half. 8) Upper half. 9) Lower half.

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