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28Ex.58,Allegretto.MODERN HARMONYJ.BONNET," Matin Provenfal!'Many of the Irish airs arranged by Stanford, and theRussian folk-songs collected by Rimsky-KorsakofP, affordsplendid examples of what pure modal treatment should be.Ravel has also followed on the same lines with his Greek airsfor voice and pianoforte.Ex.57.Allegretto.RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF, RussiannxuSongs, N9 53.(Voice)a^(pt) PPrn m^ ^TT) Hr r ri,rother instances of the pure modal use occur in the deviceof "quotation," as in Harwood's Organ Sonata in C sharpQuotationi^iiior, where the ancient song "Beata nobis guadia"and is given with the pure modal harmony ; in hisAllusion.« Requiem," where the " Requiem ^Eternam " isquoted; whilst the "Dies Irse" is used with sardonic andironical purpose by Berlioz in his " Faust " and in the" Symphonie Fantastique,' and for a pyschological reason byStrauss in " Also sprach Zarathustra."The instances in which a modal melody is treated with aUthe resources of the modern harmonic technique are multitudinous.With Bach's wonderful treatment ofchorales the melody itself frequently comes fromUse.'*'a period akin to the mode, whilst in such cases asthe " Song of the King of Thule " in Gounod's " Faust," we