FAMILY Icteride. 
d=108 Allegre. 
fob, Rob, 
Molto accelerando 
2 la NWYWV,- NAWAV ANA, 
Tae me << ee 
", Ppt ; Ate Fie te 
is 
Kp 6 te te ro te 
I have chosen to render the latter part of this song 
(which is given in rapid, twanging, wiry tones) in a 
series of comprehensible intervals, not unlike those 
which Chopin introduces in his fantasias. The bird sim- 
ply suggested that kind of a ‘‘run” to me, that was all; 
he did not in the least conform to pitch or interval. But 
the character of the music was the same; and if every- 
body understands that a fantasia is a musical composi- 
tion freed from strict form and allowed to follow the 
lead of fancy, they will see at once that the last part of 
the Bobolink’s song unquestionably conforms to that 
style. But if one prefers not to interpret bird music, 
but to take it from Nature exactly as it comes, this bit 
that follows may prove more acceptable: 
