FAMILY Turdldeu. 



construction is in comparison with that of the Hermit's 

 song*: 



Also, the next transcription, taken from Athanasius 

 Kircher's Musurgia Universalis written as early as the 

 year 1590, still more pointedly shows the extreme melodic 

 limitation of the Nightingale; the fragment is a justly 

 representative one. 



Now the Hermit Thrush is an altogether different kind 

 of a singer, as the ensuing notations will show. He is 

 brilliant in execution beyond description, as versatile in 

 melody as a genius, and as pure in his tones as refined 

 silver. It would be useless to attempt a representation 

 of the song by a series of dots and dashes; the mechani- 

 cal rhythm is completely overshadowed by the wonder- 

 ful way in which the singer delivers his sustained tonic 

 and then embroiders it with a rapid and brilliant cadenza. 

 The one prime point which distinguishes the song of this 

 Thrush from all others, is the long, loud, liquid-clear 

 tone with which it is begun; here is an illustration: 



Un jeune compositeur vient de mettre en musique le chant du 

 Rossignol. Voici lea paroles de ce petit chef-d'oeuvre: 

 Tifcu, tiuu, tiuu, tiuu, Uutio, qutio, qutio, qutlo, 



Lp6 tia zqua ; Zquo, zquo, zquo, zquo, 



Quorror pipu. 7A, zi. zi, zi, zi. zi, zi, zi, 



Tio, tio, tio, tio, tix ; 



^uorror tiii zqua pipiqui 1 





