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	Music from the West. 219



	Let me now speak of a peculiarity in Scottish music, which I doubt not has suggested itself to the reader before I have named it: the snap, or rapid succession of two notes : — and so forth. With regard to the origin of this, I have always nourished a fancy born of my own experience. There are singers who when they attempt to recollect a melody try to reproduce a harmony also—to present to themselves a duet; and this can only be done by catching at either the principal or accessory note (as may be), before or after the sound has been emitted. I have never been able to represent to my solitary self the tune of a two-part song without some such ease to imagination, if not to conscience; and thus,