It was when the rudimentary successions of tones known to primitive man were gathered up and scientifically arranged in definite and unalterable scales that our modern art of music began. And at this point our survey of primitive music properly ends.

H. F. G.

Specimen of Andamanese Music. Noted by M. V. Portman.

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D'ót ógar lera loto cháli beo
D'ót ógar lera loto cháli beo
D'ót ógar lera loto cháli beo.

Dó ngól áka teggi leb dáka jad ála ngáka yabng-o
D'ót ógar lera, loto cháli beo
D'ót ógar lera loto cháli beo.

Pukuta Clapping etc.

FOOTNOTES:

[2] Benj. Ives Gilman: Hopi Songs, 1908.