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is usually pitched in E and it recurs with rhythmical 

 precision. Burroughs calls the GEcanthus the " purr- 





92 4 6 sings and 46 rests per minute. 



ing cricket," and speaks of its song as coming "in 

 waves," which is not only true of the soloist but of 

 the general chorus. The sound is regularly tossed 

 back and forth like those sustained chords which 

 occur early in the first movement of Beethoven's 

 Fifth Symphony, but the musical effect of the grand 

 chorus is a distinct alternation of two tones thus : 



2nd. cricket. 



an exact counterpart of the opening notes of the 

 scherzo in the Third Symphony. How under the 









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