Letter: Gentamicin and gas gangrene.

The Zulu bow songs of Princess Magogo

“…The metrical conventions employed here do not appear to differ appreciably from tllose of English (tllough tllis is certainly not tile case witll all tile songs). It has been demonstrated, in a previous article, 187 tllat metrical regularity seems to occur more commonly in children's songs, among the Zulu, tllan in more sophisticated items, and tile present song is of course a lullaby. The strict 4-bar lengtll of tile vocal phrases in this song, with virtually no variation in entry point, is achieved tllrough using metrically regular lines of text, in tile Western sense, and tile familiar device of 'stretching' syllables where necessary, by substituting a lengtllened one for two or tllree short ones.…”

“…This has been demonstrated in some detail in a separate publication. 186 Most of the other songs under consideration here show similar conformity; though here and there one fmds some evidence of stylised distortion: The cadential sequence in bars I4 to IS of item AI, for instance, suits the tones of the fmal word in that line very well; but when the same sequence is identically reapplied in all succeeding lines, it doe~ not always do justice to the tonal requirements of the fmal words, particularly in the case of uyephi na (in bars 34-35, 42-43, etc.) where the tonal sequence should properly be high-falling-high-falling.…”