The columns of the large table, when read horizontally, show which qualities appear in a given song.  Read vertically they show the degrees of dominance of the various qualities.

The songs are grouped under two heads, those given by men and boys, and those given by women and girls.  This will facilitate comparison of the degrees of dominance of the qualities found in the songs of each. [253]

Numbers have been put down in some of the columns of the table.  These figures indicate the number of times the quality appeared in the song.  If the song has several verses on the record, and the quality appears the same number of times in each, then the tabulation gives the number of times in but a single verse.  If the verses vary in the use of the quality, then an average has been struck and figure put down in the tabulation.  In those songs where a certain quality occurs with such irregularity that it was impossible to represent the average without fractions, only the mark X has been put down in the table, simply to indicate that the quality was present.  Such qualities as Tonality, Character, Structure, Scale, etc., naturally, with few exceptions, run through the whole song, and they are indicated by the X. Some songs have both of two opposed qualities.  When this occurs, it is shown by checking both qualities. [254] Some qualities which were present, but indeterminable are indicated by an interrogation-point. [255]

Following the tabulation is given a detailed explanation or definition of each of the qualities listed at the heads of the vertical columns.

Dying Tones.—­Found only at the end of some few glissandos.  On the glide, the volume of sound diminishes so rapidly that when the final tone of the group is reached, the sound has practically died out.  The effect is something like a short groan with no anguish in it.  Sign,—­same as a muted note, but written at the end of a glissando.

Muted Tones.—­Sort of half-articulated tones, if I may use that expression.  Without more records of the same songs in which these are shown, it is not possible to determine whether they are intended by the singers as necessary parts of the records.  Sign,—­note with small square head.

Inhaled Tones.—­Tones produced well back in the throat while sharply inhaling the breath rather than exhaling it, as practiced almost universally by singers.  Sign,—­circle with dot in center.

Pulsated Tones.—­Tones of more than one beat sung with a rythmic stressing usually in accord with the time meter or some multiple of that meter.  Pulsation is rarely heard among modern musicians, except in drilling ensemble singing.  It is heard quite frequently in the singing of our American Indians and in the songs of several other primitive peoples.  It occurs to some extent in nearly every one of the Tinguian men’s songs.  It is found in but one of those sung by women.