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Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



mary, ending on the keynote, complete and satisfactory. 

 Second four all secondary, incomplete and unsatisfactory. 



Slide 2 : " Scots wba hae." 



Slide 3 : " Last Eose of Summer." 



Slide 4 : " Weel may the Keel row." 



Slides 5 and 6 : " God save the Queen." 



N.B. — Only having been able to arrange seven colours 

 with glasses to form one diatonic scale, it has been necessary 

 to transpose each air into that one scale. With the interme- 

 diate shades, forming twelve gradations, a chromatic scale 

 would be the result, corresponding to the twelve semitones in 

 the octave, and these airs could be given in their own keys. 



The twelve would be as follows : — 



Art. LXXV. — National Melodies. 

 By Miss Morrison. 



[Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 28th November, 



1892.] 



Plate LV. 



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Music is poetry in sounds ; melody, sounds arranged 

 rhythmical order. With the sounds natural to New Zealand, 

 and the songs of different nations in New Zealand, of what 

 character are the national melodies likely to be '? To the 

 musical artist sounds and notes for melody are to be found 

 everywhere, as the sighing of the wind, the dash of the waves 

 on the shore. Mendelssohn found music in the dropping of 

 water in Fingal's Cave, and has portrayed it in his " Overture 

 to the Hebrides." Birds have their distinct notes ; but only 

 those that have been trained by man can sing a melody. In 

 our adopted country — New Zealand — it has seemed to me that 



