"44. Give some account of the makers of musical instruments; of the woods, metals, hide, gut, hair, and other materials they use; of their tools, etc.
"45. What are the usual adornments and appendages of the musical instruments?
"Compositions:—
"46. On what order of intervals is the music of the people founded? Is it the Diatonic Major Scale (like c, d, e, f, g, a, b, c)? Or the Diatonic Minor Scale (in which the third is flat; like c, d, e flat, f, g, a, b, c)? Or the Pentatonic Scale (in which the fourth and the seventh are omitted, thus c, d, e, g, a, c)? Or some other order of intervals?
"47. Is the seventh used sharp (c-b), or flat (c-b flat)?
"48. Does the superfluous second occur in the scale?
| (In the example c, d, e flat, f sharp, g, a flat, b, c, |
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| the steps from the third to the fourth, and from the sixth to the seventh, are superfluous seconds.) |
"49. Does the music contain progressions in semitones, or chromatic intervals?
"50. Are there smaller intervals than semitones, such as 1/3 tones, 1/4 tones?
"51. Are there peculiar progressions in certain intervals which are of frequent occurrence in the tunes? If so, what are they?