APPENDIX B.

p. 440

A few words about the measures of the songs may be considered useful. The following specimens are given by Sakharof in his Pyesni Russkago Naroda ¹.

The Khorovod Songs are as follows:--

The "Dance Songs " are usually in one of the following metres;--

p. 441

Of the Svyatki songs, sung at Christmas, Sakharof gives the following specimens in his Skazaniya Russkago Naroda ¹, the work to which such frequent reference has already been made:--

p. 442

Footnotes

440:1 II. 51-53.

441:1 I. iii. 10