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I have chosen to render the latter part of this song 

 (which is given in rapid, twanging, wiry tones) in a 

 series of comprehensible intervals, not unlike those 

 which Chopin introduces in his fantasias. The bird sim- 

 ply suggested that kind of a "run" to me, that was all; 

 he did not in the least conform to pitch or interval. But 

 the character of the music was the same; and if every- 

 body understands that a fantasia is a musical composi- 

 tion freed from strict form and allowed to follow the 

 lead of fancy, they will see at once that the last part of 

 the Bobolink's song unquestionably conforms to that 

 style. But if one prefers not to interpret bird music, 

 but to take it from Nature exactly as it comes, this bit 

 that follows may prove more acceptable: 



