Vol. \\.\ I 

 L913 J 



OldTB, A Remarkable Hermit Thrnxli. Song. 



539 



Tin's example is from ;i record I secured at Hebron, M<'., in ]!)().">. 

 Another, taken from a Hermit Thrush In the New York Zoological 

 Park — 



;-«2o. ^ 





shows the introduction of a passing note, F, without destroying 

 the idea of the chord — 



m 



Interspersed with these phrases are very high, light, short phrases 

 that punctuate the others somewhat after the style of the refrain 

 so common in old songs and poems. Thus, the Hebron thrush 

 sang, after the phrase quoted — 



J= 108 



JLA 



which might be interpreted as taking the place of Fa-la-la-la. 



It must be further explained that the basal notes of the songs 

 are usually more or less unrelated to each other — at least such 

 has been the case in the comparatively few Hermit Thrush songs 

 I have heard. Thus, the consecutive basal notes in a record I had 

 made at Hebron a few days before my visit to Pompanoosuc were — 



ggg||gjggi g|§ 



and so on. It will be noticed that there is no indication here of 

 any normal order of utterance of these notes and the phrases based 

 on them, and that the harmonic progressions of the different 

 chords involved are not such as we commonly find in our own music. 

 This is not to say that the music of this thrush was not attractive — 

 there was a w ild beauty in it that was delightful to the ear, — but 

 merely thai it shows no close relationship in its modulations to our 

 own music. 



