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[Senner <pri...@dh...>]

In the musical setting of some of his dramas.' Here is pictured a type
of Greek work which survives in American vaudeville, where every line
may be two-thirds spoken and one-third sung, the entire rendering,
musical and elocutionary, depending upon the improvising power and sure
instinct of the performer. "I respectfully submit these poems as
experiments in which I endeavor to carry this vaudeville form back
towards the old Greek precedent of the half-chanted lyric. In this case
the one-third of music must be added by the instinct of the reader. He
must be Iophon. And he can easily be Iophon if he brings to bear upon
the piece what might be