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Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
F. W. PUTNAM, Peabody Professor of Amer. Arch. and Ethn.
Harv. Univ., Curator of the Museum.
Cambridge, Mass.,  . . . . 190  .
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Other peoples have based their best music on the folk music of their region, or rather the native music. America had tried to conform to the European standards and the songs brought over by the several nationalities. This should not be and no really fine American music will be produced until some one grasps the idea of basing our music on the native American music. He claimed too, that the harmony must be adapted to the wild and natural character of our

Transcription Notes:
goes for the idea : perhaps: grasps the idea agreed and changed.