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from the dominant to the tonic in the strongest, the conventional cadence is essentially 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 philosophers we might think of the ultimate satisfaction, which we are never quite able to reach, or God or some fixed principle in the nature of man, or ^nirvana or 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' Este was in progress and use was ^to be made of four or five rooms for classes in piano, violin and voice. I figured my allowance carefully and took passage in second class on the Guilio Cesare.