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- ID
- b91
- Title
- The Grace Note
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 7
- Word Count
- 1420
- Publisher
- Daily Mail
- Fortnightly
- Publication Year
- 1936
- Document Types
- Comic Fiction
- First-Person Narratives
- Uncollected Antemortem
- Topics
- Music
A humorous tale of a family of brass players, the Chipperfields, of their devotion to music, their jealousy and stubbornness, and of a single 'grace note' that dashes their dreams of a Chipperfield band and rends the family apart.
The tale displays Bates's knowledge of musical terminology and repertoire.
In the Fortnightly (May 1936, 145: pp. 541-547), Daily Mail (September 18, 1936), Hotch Potch (ed. John Brophy, The Council of the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, 1936) and the ebook edition of Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (Bloomsbury, 2016).
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