He sets out two contrasting ideas at full length before attempting to combine them. He confessed to having written the letter but merely from a longing to see his country again even at the price of imprisonment. One of the consequences of the Italian equation of major and minor mode is the fondness for modulations by keys a third apart a propensity shared by Chopin and due in part to their common heritage from Bellini. In Italy on the other hand opera, as they say, grew on trees. For such people this book is emphatically not intended.
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