MUSICAL COMPOSITION

36 MUSICAL COMPOSITION(That is, on the same lines but independent ofthem.)And here must be both rhyme and tone.Let it be shapely found and neat;Such children parents gladly greet;Your stanzas so will find an end,And all things will together blend.(Literally, that nothing of the previous material bethrown away.)Walther then sings the Mtersong, or closingstanza of the first verse. Sachs says the melody is alittle free, but he does not object.When Walther in the final scene sings the Preisliedagain, it is most instructive to notice how he hasabsorbed Sachs' advice as to the second stanza andmade his free modulation clearer to the ear by extendingand elaborating it.Sachs' advice may then be summed up as follows:Know your rules but make them subservient toyour poetical idea and melodic invention.Balance your phrases so that they at once contrastwith and supplement each other.Make your chief melodic phrase clear, even byrepetition, so that the ear may grasp whatyou are driving at.If you make an innovation, show by the way youmake it that you understand the why andwherefore of it.Do not waste your material, and gather up yourthreads at the end.Be careful to keep your tonality clear.We will now endeavour to show the construction ofa melody in absolute music, and the manner in which