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...change is a crucial criterion. This example has an irregular rate of harmonic change. The first chord lasts a whole bar, then there is a change of harmony every minim in bars 2–4, and every semibreve in bars 5–8. Write your reduction in minims (in both treble and bass) for bars 1–4 and semibreves for bars 5–8. For the first minim in the treble line of bar 4,...

...change, they are throughout so mournfully beautiful, that in the brain they beget strange thoughts, and in the heart strange feelings. We see too much of the sky, and the long, lovely, pathetic, lingering evening light, with its suggestions of eternity and death, which one cannot for the soul of one put into words, is somewhat too much for the comfort of a sensitive human...