Cardinal Newman as a Musician Classic Reprint

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I Oxford University Sermons, pp. 346, 347. Writing to her brother about the passage on music, partly cited above, beginning: There are seven notes in the scale, make them fourteen; yet what a slender outfit for so vast an enterprise! What science brings so much out of so little! Out of what poor element does some great master in it create his new world Mrs. J. Mozley says, We are pleased at your tribute to music, but what do you mean by fourteen notes? Do you mean the twelve semitones, as some suggest? I am indignant at the idea. I think you knew what you were saying. Please tell me when you write. (mozley, Corr. Ii. P. He replies: I had already been both amused and provoked to find my gross blunder about the 'fourteen.' But do not, pray, suppose I doubled the notes for semitones, though it looks very like it. The truth is, I had a most stupid idea in my head there were fifteen semitones, and I took off one for the octave. On reading it over when published, I saw the absurdity. I have a great dislike to publishing hot bread, and this is one proof of the inconvenience. (ibid.) The Second Edition has thirteen notes, which is correct, if the octave be included, but later editions go back to fourteen.

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