POPULAR SONGS. 



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feeling, or by domestic joys and sorrows, whence we have the three distinct 

 and marked categories which comprise the historic songs, the religious songs, 

 and the domestic songa." 



Fig. 318. Poetry and Music. The Nino Muses inspiring Arion, Orpheus, and Pythagoras, under 

 the auspices of the Personified Air, source of all Harmony. Miniature from the " Liber 

 Pontificalis." Manuscript of the Thirteenth Century. In the Public Library, Rheims. 



All nations have had their singers, and the national songs, composed of 

 rhymed word's with which corresponded a musical melody that had not the same 



