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Music Talks with Children by Thomas Tapper
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case. The teacher's, or mother's, discretion should, however,
decide what and how much of such original should be read, and what
it is best to say of it.

40: I have not attempted to quote the exact words usually given.

41: Socrates. This quotation is from the "Memorabilia of Xenophon,"
Book I, Chapter VI.

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
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