FAMILY Fringillide. 
and again this rather clever bit with the foregoing *: 
=i1G Of? Presto 
oe Repeaneb 
Sempre dolce 
et tremolo. 
ben marcato. 
One is inevitably forced to conclude that the Finch’s 
idea of music is confined to the rapid dance-type in six- 
eight time to which belongs the so-called Tarantelle! 
No one seems to have discovered that the Purple Finch 
sings just this way, and possibly no one is prepared to 
deny it; so perhaps it is proper to prove the case by in- 
troducing a bar or two of Chopin’s wild Tarantelle for 
the sake of comparison: 
5 OW SORT A A 5b. SIRI TIEL 8. 
{- G22 re eee 
A 
iain Am P> inh oy mam Ar a 
aa ae 
constructively 
This part's sf ke the warble, and this like the expressive slurso rs the Fite iach, 
A eae wa 
Qn Gn ny Rn BRO 
Win ity Dey Wei) BE Mil 
MIN EG DE Ree Ee ae See Oo 
v QU #| A #8 AP Wee a SS ea a = 
‘ | TF Fa oi” eo J 
This may seem a far-fetched simile, but one must not 
look for similarity of melody between the great com- 
poser’s work and the song of the bird, that does not 
count for everything, in this particular instance it 
amounts to nothing; it is the musical construction or 
motive which counts, and who will venture to deny that 
the bird and the musician worked out their melodies 
upon precisely the same musical principle? 
*T confess that the rapidity with which this scrap must be per: 
formed at the piano according to the metronome time is something 
which will tay the ability of a musician. 
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