APPENDIX. 123 
NeEwNEss oF THE FIELD. — Contin. 
first steps in the philosophical study of the structure of 
music could entertain the idea that the sounds naturally 
emitted by birds . . . were entitled to be called either 
music or melody.” So writes Wm. Pole in “Nature” for 
August 11, 1887. While it is the intent of the editor 
to collate simply, not to criticise, he is moved to inquire 
if the notations grouped below, besides showing the ex- 
tension of the field as surveyed in England in the last 
quarter of the 17th century and as practically left one 
hundred years later, do not constitute a sufficient answer 
to the author of “A Year with the Birds,” M. H. R,, to 
the writer on “Sportsman’s Music,” to the author of 
“Music and Morals,” and to the distinguished contributor 
to “Nature” for August 11, 1887. The writer last men- 
tioned says : — 
“We arrive, therefore, at the conclusion that the essential 
feature of music, its minimum component, must be a combina- 
tion of sounds of different pitches, these pitches being moreover 
strictly fixed and defined, and their relations to each other cor- 
responding to certain series agreed on and adopted as standard 
musical scales. Such combination will of itself constitute music; 
we may add all sorts of other features, but without the above 
essential foundation we cannot have music, in an artistic point 
of view.” 
What “component” of the “essential foundation” is 
lacking in this group of melodies? 
CHICKADEES, singing responses. 
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