FAMILY Turdidtc 



This w<is th? Whine dduahterl mo- 

 > tive which the little Wdrbler 



Sempre p Til/ Siegfried doth 



But we have not yet exhausted the resources of the 

 musicianly Thrush. In Richard Strauss's Symphonia 

 Domestica occurs this melodic phrase: 



From 



Either Dr. Strauss copied the Hermit or the Hermit 

 copied Dr. Strauss (if we choose to think music is some- 

 times plagiarized), for the bird sang that very phrase, 

 July 1, 1901, in a pasture in Campton, but this way: 



egro. 



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Somehow or other the motives of the Hermit all fit 

 together in a remarkably harmonious fashion, and it is 

 a very simple matter to combine the antiphonal songs of 

 two singers so they form a unit of musical thought; 

 here is a demonstration of that idea; I have not inter- 

 fered in the least with the key or a single note of any 

 one of the phrases. 



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