From:
[Osborne?] Turner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.450
Summary:
Requests permission to include extract from Prelim. Discourse in The Sixth English Reading Book.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Requests permission to include extract from Prelim. Discourse in The Sixth English Reading Book.
Appreciates JH's beautiful simplification of the numerals in musical arithmetic. Wishes JH would give up the point of the variability of the supertonic and transfer it to the submediant. Agrees with JH over the need for a keyboard instrument possessing a perfect chromatic scale in any particular key.