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 HISTORY OF MENDELSSOHN'S "ELIJAH."

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which is more according to the Bible. I prefer * Let him be God ' to ' He shall be God ' (which you have added in pencil). Instead of ' I, even I alone stand here among you,' I propose the alteration :

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��I prefer ' Invoke your forest gods,' etc., as you do.

" In No. 15 [11], is not the accent extirpate a wrong one? The syllable tir will always be the first in the bar and the strongest, with a marked accent.

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��" In No. 18 [13], could not the words ' with lancets cut yourselves after your manner ' be kept?

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