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euphony is fundamentally a phy- slological concept, and therefore its axioms are the same for all tho40 GERMANY JEALOUS OF HER, who have the same physiological This was inevitably followed by organization. The toleration of ite logical Inference, incs there cacophony is usually the result of a
BAD SPORTSMANSHİP, are no norma conditioning the bad ear, or of a defective tonal oul- phenomenon of beauty, musical ture In this consists, the differ-
The question whether German beauty itself appears to be non-ence between contemporary methods sportsmanship is being maintain- existent. Music, having heen re- and that enrichment of euphony ed at the standard of fairness duced to complete formlessness, which was evident in musle prior to which is regarded in most coun- since co-ordinates and landmarks the 20th century. In the 18th cen- tries as being essential to athle of every kind have disappeared from tury the complex tonal phenomenatics has become the subject of It, has in these days arrived at the in the sphere of euphony were more lively discussion in the German rojection of the fundamental and more restricted, and a tonal Press says a British United spheres from which it set out the consciousness was developed, but Press message from Berlin. spheres of expressiveness
Germans, it is pointed out, are we now find in it, not an extension euphony. The eras of the past ex-of the concept of euphony, but of awakening to the importance of tablished new paths to the attain-a taste for cacophony, and the musi, sports as peaceful and friendly ment of beauty and new methods of cal consciousness becomes means of cementing international Jacquiring the maximum of expres- exacting and rudimentary-it is relationships and of maintaining siveness, but this is not a charac-a matter of indifference whether a the good name of an entire na-
tion. teristic feature of contemporary thing be true or false, and on this music, which denies the necessity point the musician, the contemporcussion is the recent Olympic The immediate cause of the dis- for either. It desires frankly to ary composer, offers his hand to the football match between Germany be unexpressive and unbeautiful, man who simply has no ear for and Uruguay. The game, which and this leads to self-destruction, music. since labour devoted to things that Hence we now have in this art for Uruguay, was marked by ugly resulted in a hard-fought victory have no beauty or emotional algni- which has transgressed the bounds incidents between the players of deance is of no use to anybody, of music a series of characteristic both countries. and the signficance of these prin-phenomena. We saw earlier that Since then the Nuremberg foot- ciples (or lack of principles) can- at one time cuphony was occasional-ball "star," Kalb, and his fellow- not be likened to art, but must be y sacrificed for the sake of ex-player, Richard Hofmann, have included in the category of violn-pressiveness the innovators broke been subjected to disciplinary tions of the public peace and
through the customary restraints of punishment by the German Foot- tranquillity.
euphony in order to express newball Association. This, of course, shows that music sensations. And conversely, ex-
At the same time the Football is exceeding its limits and is being pressiveness was diminished and transformed into non-music. On curtailed for the sake of euphony, Association condemned the re these questions I am
lest the former should exceed the feree at the Amsterdam game as quite [objective. I know that many limits of agreeableness. Now, how-unfair, and emphasised that the composers, conservative by convic-ever, there is confusion; the in- German players resorted to an un- tion, are now writing indifferent, novators destroy euphony for some fair roughness only after the re neutral, untalented, dull music, but reason unknown, since they reject feree had failed to shield them it is musie, and not something else, the necessity for expressiveness,
from "unprecedented insults." Even the very difficulty of produc-Music is occuping Itself, strangely ing interesting music to-day is per- and without any justification, in the fectly natural and comprehensible production of casual noises and because, as I have already anid, the sounds, and approximates more and musical sphere is bulit over, and more to unmitigated charlatanism, those musicians who might once which counts on the public's con- have been recognized as geniuses,fiding nature and want of develop. in view of their talents must now be ment; or to the type of activity of antisfied with the modest title of the mentally afflicted. But the bulk of the people, who still possess the
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a bitter truth. But, on the other heritage of the age-long tradition of hand, men have appeared who write taste and simply an ear for music, *violations of the public peace and unspoiled and not deficient, are be tranquillity" possibly works of ginning to understand that instead genius, witty, diverting-but not of bread they are offered a stone;
music. Every concent has its that they are being nourished on limitations, and to confuse them is products of an inferior quailty; that only in the interests of the charla-the edifice of musical culture is
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CACOPHONY.
Tonal combinations, lacking even the desire to be expressive and euphonious have no right to be en- titled music. You may tell me that the concepta of euphony and ex- pressiveness, are relative, but,
whilst thoroughly agreeing with this, I would observe that the relativity of the con- cept of euphony consists merely in the fact that our ear gradually ac- customs itself to a more and more (complex tissue, on condition that the organization of the latter is such that its complexity becomes intelligible to us; or in the fact that. the line of development of this itonal consciousness varies in dif
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