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42: Mary Russell Mitford.
43: "Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini," Bohn edition, p. 23.
44: "The Miserere" of "Gregorio Allegri." It was written for nine voices in two choirs. "There was a time when it was so much treasured that to copy it was a crime visited with excommunication. Mozart took down the notes while the choir was singing it." (See Grove's "Dictionary of Music and Musicians." Vol. I, page 54.)
45: Dr. Bridge "On Simple Counterpoint." Preface.
46: Take, in August Haupt's "_Choralbuch zum häuslichen Gebrauch_," any simple choral. The one entitled "_Zion klagt mit Angst und Schmerzen_" is of singular beauty and simplicity.
47: Peters Edition, No. 200, page 11.
48: I should advise the teacher to have the two volumes entitled "_Les Maitres du Clavicin_." (They can be had in the Litolff collection.)
49: Op. 106.
50: "_Der Erster Verlust_" in Schumann's Op. 68 is well conceived in the sense that it is freely harmonic in some places, imitative in others, while in the opening the melody is very simply accompanied. Show the children how interesting the left-hand part is in this little composition.
51: From a Letter of the Spectator.
52: From the eighth paragraph of the Lecture entitled "Nicholas, the Pisan," in "Val D'Arno."
53: A blind beggar sitting on a bridge in an English town (it was Chester) many times astonished me with the rapidity of his hand-reading, and by the wonderful light of his face. It was wholly free from the perplexity which most of us show. It must arise in us from being attracted by so many things.
54: Eighty-first paragraph of "Val d'Arno."
55: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "The Meditations," Book V, Par. 34.
56: See footnote, p. 119.
57: From the thirteenth paragraph of the fourth book. I have changed the wording a very little to make it simple.
58: Sixteenth paragraph of the fifth book.
59: _Essi quam videri._
60: "The Memorabilia."
61: "Epictetus," H.W. Rollison's Translation.
62: Plato.
63: Mozart wrote three symphonies between June 26th and August 10th, in the year 1778; and an Italian, Giovanni Animuccia, is said to have written three masses, four motettes, and fourteen hymns within five months. As an instance of early composition, Johann Friedrich Bernold had written a symphony before he was ten years of age, and was famous all over Europe.
64: Xenophon, "The Memorabilia," Book IV, Chapter VIII.
65: From the "Pleasures of Life." Eighth Chapter of the Second Series.
66: The little romance of N.B. Saintine is referred to.
67: Read to the children Chapter XIV in my "Chats with Music Students."
68: "Rules for Young Musicians."