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A New Crotchet

B. C. "A New Crotchet." Vanity Fair. 19 Jan. 1861: 33.
Type: 
magazine
Genre: 
commentary, illustration, satire
Abstract: 

Satiric discussion of how to communicate with music by using the letters assigned to notes to construct words. Gives the example of writing a song about a deaf baby with the notes D, E, A, F, B, A, B, and E.