FAMILY FringUHd*. 



and again this rather clever bit with the foregoing*. 



(S> *-'**- 



Sempre dolce 

 et tremolo, 

 ben marcalo. 



cres 





One is inevitably forced to conclude that tin- 1 'inch's 

 idea of music is confined to the rapid dance-typ*- in six- 

 eight time to which belongs the so-called Tarant-lh?! 

 No one seems to have discovered that the Purple Finch 

 sings just this way, and possibly no one is prepared to 

 deny it; so perhaps it is proper to prove the case by in- 

 troducing a bar or two of Chopin's wild Tarantelle for 

 the sake of comparison : 



Tresto. 



, , 



wdthis like the e* press w slurs of theTfnch. 



This may seem a far-fetched simile, but one must not 

 look for similarity of melody between the great com- 

 poser's work and the song of the bird, that does not 

 count for everything, in this particular instance it 

 amounts to nothing; it is the musical construction or 

 motive which counts, and who will venture to deny that 

 the bird and the musician worked out their melodies 

 upon precisely the same musical principle? 



* I confess that the rapidity with which this scrap must be per 

 formed at the piano according to the metronome time is something 

 which will tax the ability of a musician. 



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