In arranging these words, care has been taken never to forget or to change the natural and the psychical environment that belongs to the melody.
Indian songs are very short.

They have no preliminary measures, but at once voice the actuating emotion; that done, they come to a close.

Although they are so short, they have form and in their structure follow in simple lines the rules of phrasing and motivization taught in our schools.

These songs, speaking in general terms, partake more of the character of motifs than of musical compositions.

They do not stand alone or apart from the ceremonials or pleasures of which they form an essential feature.
THE DANCE The different Indian tribes vary in their modes of dancing; moreover, the same theme is not interpreted by all the tribes in the same manner.