36 WOOD NOTES WILD. 
ing tones being on the same pitch. However, the song 
increases, both in power and rapidity, from beginning 
to end. It by no means requires “unusual compass,” — 
simply the interval of a minor third. 
When we consider the genius displayed in combining 
so beautifully the three grand principles of sound, — 
length, pitch, and power, — its brevity and limited com- 
pass make it all the more wonderful. Scarcely anything 
in rhythmics and dynamics is more difficult than to give 
a perfect accelerando and crescendo; and the use of the 
chromatic scale by which the field sparrow rises in his 
lyric flight involves the very pith of melodic ability. 
This little musician has explored the whole realm of 
sound, and condensed its beauties in perfection into one 
short song. 
Cres- = i te 
a a, ee 2 
> cr s&s = ww = & z 
pfs vp ehetise 
i ee — 
— 
Accelerando et crescendo, 
