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Good morning to you all. 



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What a fine day we have now a - gain. 





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How are you to-day? Will you come and dine with me to-day? 

 Or they begin on the key-note and move to the dominant : 



I hope you are now quite well a - gain. 



Or they ascend from the dominant to the octave, and to the ninth 

 and tenth : 



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How glad I am to see you ! How heau- ti - ful and charming ! 



Many expressions are begun on the sixth as on a leading tone to 

 the dominant : 



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Ma - ny times have I 



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see you. 



Have you been there ? 



have not. 



The voice moves mostly up and down in the principal scale and 

 chord, and in their relative harmonies, and frequently dwells on intro- 

 ducing tones from above or below to a tone of any of these chords : 



Principal Chords. 



Subdominant. 



D minor. 



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