I play much of the Rigadoon but it is strange, it don't come off
QUITE so well with me!

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There is the first part of the musette copied (from memory, so I
hope there's nothing wrong). Is it not angelic? But it ought, of
course, to have the gavotte before. The gavotte is in G, and ends
on the keynote thus (if I remember):-

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staccato, I think. Then you sail into the musette.

N.B. - Where I have put an 'A,' is that a dominant eleventh, or
what? or just a seventh on the D? and if the latter, is that
allowed? It sounds very funny. Never mind all my questions; if I
begin about music (which is my leading ignorance and curiosity), I
have always to babble questions: all my friends know me now, and
take no notice whatever. The whole piece is marked allegro; but
surely could easily be played too fast? The dignity must not be
lost; the periwig feeling.



Letter: TO THOMAS STEVENSON



[SKERRYVORE, BOURNEMOUTH, March 1886.]