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from the dominant to the tonic in the strongest, the conventional cadence is essential that fall of dominant to tonic. But the conclusiveness is only relative because that tonic can be heard as the dominant to another tonic to which it tends to fall, and even though we may use other related chords to strengthen the cadence and heighten the finality of the tonic, still there is no absolute satisfaction. If you and I were theologists or philosophic we might think of the ultimate satisfaction, which we are never quite able to reach, on innovation even as death."

Several years later I enrolled in a summer course in violin, to be given in Tivoli. The restoration of the Villa d' Exte was in progress and use was to be made of five or six rooms for classes in piano, violin and voice. I figured my allowance carefully and took passage in second class on the Juileo Cesare.