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86 1 knew everything wa:i all ri^ht <lo\\u there and did 

 not take the trouble to go and seel Nonsense, all this, 

 everyone will of course say! Hut what about that melody 

 in both the major and minor keys! That remains a re- 

 IIKII /,//'/ fact. Again, how another little bird gave me 

 a fragment of a Chopinlike mazourka, is worth the tell- 

 ing. The motive was suggestive of something more 

 which I never got; it ran thus: 



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i 







ftup-it 'rap-it rup-it^ spits wig A gee! 

 JV.B. Do not mind the syllables, they <tre not more nonsensical 

 /, than i hose employed by (he ornithologist for tunes?! 



& f U F F 



and that was very aggravating, for it should have been 

 rounded off thus: 



1st ending 2nd 



The complete melody will sound better, though te6S bird like, 

 if played dn octave lower. 



But it never was rounded off, so I had to accept the tact 

 that even the Song Sparrow does not always know how 

 to finish a thing. 



There is a very good story told of Beethoven, I believe, 

 which illustrates, in an amusing way, the annoyance of a 

 "tie-up" in music. The good old master had gone to 

 bed and was tossing restlessly on his pillow, because his 

 nephew Carl, downstairs, was repeatedly practising what 

 a musician would call a harmony in suspension ; some- 

 thing which goes like this: 



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