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very markedly, into two equal parts, the D phrase ushering in a slightly different 

 theme. This phrase is interrupted by talking but is taken up again at the 

 point left off, as a comparison with No. 106, which is another version of the same 

 song, will show. The collector has told me' that this is customary when talking 

 breaks the continuity. It is merely an expression of pleasure or interest in the 

 song being sung, or an exclamation at a mistake. If the latter, a correction is 

 made, and usually the singer begins back a little. The words of the first and 

 second phrases are identical, thus necessarily rhyming, but there is also rhyme^ 

 between the third and fourth, where the final words are different. The song 

 begins on the last half of the final beat of the measure, on the fifth of the major 

 scale or the fifth of the tonic minor as the alternative, but the feeling is predom- 

 inantly major up to the beginning of the C phrase, where the introduction of 

 the a flat causes a modulation to minor. The song ends on the same tone oq 

 which it began, which is the general level of the tune. 



' Correspondence. 



