FAMILY Turdide. 
construction is in comparison with that of the Hermit’s 
song *: 
2 3limes 8va. 
Also, the next transcription, taken from Athanasius 
Kircher’s Musurgia Universalis written as early as the 
year 1590, still more pointedly shows the extreme melodic 
limitation of the Nightingale; the fragment is a justly 
representative one. 
Now the Hermit Thrush is an altogether different kind 
of a singer, as the ensuing notations will show. He is 
brilliant in execution beyond description, as versatile in 
melody as a genius, and as pure in his tones as refined 
silver. It would be useless to attempt a representation 
of the song by a series of dots and dashes; the mechani- 
cal rbythm is completely overshadowed by the wonder- 
ful way in which the singer delivers his sustained tonic 
and then embroiders it with a rapid and brilliant cadenza. 
The one prime point which distinguishes the song of this 
Thrush from all others, is the long, loud, liquid-clear 
tone with which it is begun; here is an illustration: 
3 es 80 The bird ye: ¥ ga 53 as) 
a) eee ae ES 
KP bb 
*Un jeune compositeur vient de mettre en musique le chant du 
Rossignol. Voici les paroles de ce petit chef-d’ceuvre: 
Tidu, titu, tihu, titu, Qutio, qutio, qutio, qutio, 
Lpé tit zqua ; Zquo, zquo, zquo, zquo, 
Quorror pipu, : Zi, Zi, Zi, Zi, Zizi, Zizi 
Tio, tio, tio, tio, tix ; Quorror tit zqua pipiqui} 
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