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When I got to her house, Ballard, her butler opened the door. Ballard was the worst kind of butler, although I really only had fictional characters to compare him with. He was the kind of butler who went running to Grandmother with tales if he caught you sliding down the banister of the staircase or smoking cigarettes in the conservatory on those tiresome weekends at Grandmother’s. Ballard hated me and I hated him.

The study of music notation and terminology by classes in conservatories and in music departments of colleges and normal schools is a comparative innovation, one reason for the non-existence of such courses in the past being the lack of a suitable text-book, in which might be found in related groups clear and accurate definitions of the really essential terms.