OLIVE-BACKED THRUSH. 



deliberately chooses a series of even intervals and climbs 

 up the scale with a thought entirely single to harmoni- 

 ous results. Technically the song is compassed by a di- 

 minished seventh; it ascends in two-note groups, the notes 

 evidently separated by minor third intervals with each 

 second note the lower of the two; it might be repre- 

 sented by a zigzag line thus: 



crescendo. 



Wove,/ love./ love, I love you! 



Constructively considered the music strongly resembles 

 these somewhat meandering but soothing phrases in the 

 first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata: 



The great musician, however, goes slow and continues the 

 theme; the bird does not, but after giving the third or 

 fourth rapid group of notes, is dissatisfied with the pitch 

 and tries a lower or a higher one, thus: 



9, 1 love, Hove, I loveyou! Ilove,llove, I love, //ore you/ 

 Like all the northern Thrushes, he is a transcendentalist, 

 who is never satisfied with a creditable effort, but must 

 try for something better and then "goes to pieces" in 

 the attempt! Here is as near a representation of that 

 idea as it is possible to get; notice how the bird continu- 

 ally tries for something on a higher key, and finally en 1? 

 with a jumble of high notes: 



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