MUSICAL COMPOSITION

184 MUSICAL COMPOSITIONto F major, he makes his progression clear by accompanyingharmonies. If, in the example given above,he had suggested after the fifth bar a modulationto D minor, instead of remaining in the key whichfitted his initial note, he would have faIlen into thesnare thus:--- E+= --E+-His own mind could easily have supplied harmoniesfor such a passage, but the inexorable G in thebass of the first bar goes on sounding in p08se allthrough, and would have made his modulation unintelligibleto any other ear except his own. Similarlya very marked bass note, which is not clearly andlogically quitted, may fog a whole passage after it;for the lowest note lasts longest in the ear, and itscareer must be definitely cut short before a modulationin a higher position can sound independentlyof it.