WHITE=:1 AHROATED SPARROW. 
triplets, each cluster being equal tc one of the long 
tones, and each of the short tones being equal to one 
third of one of the long tones.” How plainly a — of 
dots illustrates this: 2 . ayaa, a. atten Lose en 
and how equally plain the itirn appears on the musi- 
cal staff! 
This song embraces an interval of a fifth; here is an- 
other which includes one of only a major third: 
“fh 
Gal Dah ee San eR a A 
a: or 
(The bird sings two octaves hyker) 
This is one of the commonest forms of melody which is 
employed by all composers. It occurs, in the opening 
bar of the love-song sung by Turiddu before the curtain 
rises in Cavalleria Rusticana: 
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