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 HISTORY OF MENDELSSOHN'S '•ELIJAH."

" Bar 89 is impossible as you propose, because on the fljj and gfll, &c., there must be no words pro- nounced ; they mnst be slurred notes, as in the German wording, and moreover they must be sung on a good syllable (no " u," or " 0," or, &c.)- So I should propose : —

���the Lord, will strengthen thee!'

��And at any rate pray let the notes he slurred, because it is essential to the whole of the song. The same also when the passage is repeated, bar 140.

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��All those passages I do not mention here are quite excellent in the way you propose. Add a note for the s&vved him and worshipped him. You are quite welcome to it.f

" You see that I really answer by return of post, for yesterday evening your letter came, and this morning this leaves. But I do not understand why there is such a hurry about the Pianoforte arrangement being finished, and why you say there is hardly time to


 * Bartholomew had written :

��Be not a - fraid,. . for I will strength - en thee I

f Rartholomew did not add the note after all. See No. 23, " The Lord hath exalted thee," bar 15, to which this refers.

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