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Haydn: Fresh Facts and Old Fancies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Marion M. Scott
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That is a non-committal title, and I had better admit at once it is not the original one. When I was honoured by the President's invitation to read this paper my first idea was to call it “Haydn's Secret”—a short, snappy title that pleased me. But I discarded it when I found my paper would have to be announced some time beforehand, for I realised that “Haydn's Secret” might give away my own little secret ahead of schedule. Still, “Haydn's Secret” is precisely what my paper is about.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Musical Association , Volume 68 , 1941 , pp. 87 - 105
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1941

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1 A digit is, literally, a finger number—a number reckoned by the fingers—and the digit of any larger number is obtained by adding together the figures sideways and, if necessary, subjecting the result to the same process until the number is reduced to the smallest possible figure, thus giving as it were the quintessence of the larger number. (See also note at end of discussion.)—M.M.S.Google Scholar

2 B.M., h. 2851, i. (1.).Google Scholar