An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

A New Crotchet

B. C. "A New Crotchet." Vanity Fair, January 19, 1861, 33.
Type
magazine
Genre
commentary
illustration
music criticism
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.