“How careless of him!” said Mrs. Givu A. Payne.
“Schubert uses it in its natural position. If the enharmonic C flat were used the chord would then be in its third inversion. Each diminished seventh harmony may resolve in sixteen different ways.”
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]“Mercy!” murmured Mrs. Fuller-Prunes. “How much there is to know.”
Dr. Dubbe passed his hand across his brow as if wearied. “I shall never cease to regret,” he said, “that Schubert did not write C flat. It would have been so much clearer.”
After the lecture Miss Ellenborough gave us another surprise—doughnuts made in the shape of flats. Dr. Dubbe ate five, saying that D flat major was his favorite key.
I rode down in the elevator with him and he repeated his remark that Schubert had unnecessarily bemuddled the chord.
“I am sure you made it very plain,” I said. “We all understand it now.”
“Do you, indeed?” he replied. “That’s more than I do.”
Of course he was jesting. He understands everything.