![Transcription Center logo](/themes/custom/tc_theme/assets/image/logo.png)
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
[[preprinted]] MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF MUSIC. [[line]] JOHN C. FILLMORE, DIRECTOR. MILWAUKEE, WIS., ^[[March 25]] 189[[1.]] [[/preprinted]] Dear Miss Fletcher: Yours of the 23d i ust just rec'd, containing news of the Zuni music. Please return my US [[underlined]]at once[[/underlined]] & I will go at my Harvard report & make it as full as I can, & as systematic. -- Meanwhile, I will try to harmonize the songs you sent. I am sorry to say that the missing ones have not turned up yet, in spite of diligent search. It is a bore; for I shall have to harmonize them all over again; - a big job, considering how my strength is taken up. I don't think I'm prepared to help you much on your treatment of rhythm; except to say that it seems to me that what is chiefly [[med]] is [[underlined]]the facts[[/underlined]] as to the Indian [[aberrations]] from the regular beat. Why not specify in each song whether they beat the accent or the first of the measure? & if not, where and how they depart from it? The