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CHAPTER II
SOME CONTINENTAL SONGS
SWEDISH SONGS, HUNGARIAN SONGS, AUSTRIAN SONGS. " GOD PRESERVE THE EMPEROR," " MAL-BROUCK," " CARMAGNOLE,'* "MADAME VETO," " CHARMANTE GABRIELLE," " VIVE HENRI QUATRE," " CARNAVAL DE VENISE," " PARTANT POUR LA SYRIE," " HEIL DIR IM SIEGERKRANZ," *' ICH BIN EIN PREUSSE," TWO THURINGIAN SONGS, " KANAPEE-LIED," " EIN FESTE BURG," " ADELAIDE"
BESIDES " La Marseillaise" and " Der Wacht am Rhein," already described, there are quite a number of famous Continental songs that are familiar to English ears, if not by name or words, at any rate through their melodies. And, of course, there are many unknown, except to musicians, which are equally important in the lands of their birth, and are deserving of at least passing mention. Everybody knows the Grand Russian National Hymn, and also the beautiful Turkish Hymn, but curiously enough the land
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