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FANCIES IN MUSIC.
BY MAUDE VALERIE WHITE.
and "Feldeinsamkeit," the splendid " Meister- aliger," the glowing passion of "Tristan" and the ethereal Good Friday music, the tender beauty of the "Dichterliebe" and the exquisite
I have been asked to write a few words about | Concerto in A minor.
GRAND ORCHESTRAL CONCERT, the mannerisms in music. As charity begins
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And Grieg? He has been reproached with at home, I shall, thank goodness, be spared the trading too much on the mannerisms of the necessity of turning the bull's-eye of criticism music of his native land; and there is, no on to my own compositions A morbid love of doubt, some truth in this. But those of us who truth, however, compels me to confess that on
have sat in a stuffy London concert room several occasions, having been reduced to the | which has vanished at the sound of those very verge of tears by what have seemed lo mo mannerisms, and before whose tired eyes has extraordinarily original, not to say epoch-mak· | arisen a vision of cool fjords and fragrant firs, ing, phrases in a new composition, I have been of sublime crags and snow-covered plains, somewhat morified when a few hours later across which one can almost see Blans Ander same member of the family circle has remarked, sea's reindeer galloping happily off to Lapland "My dear, I was so delighted to hear you play-with faithful little Gerda on his pretty back, ing that dear old 'Devout Lover' again.” And will not frel inclined to criticise, but rather to now, having outraged all the laws of etiquette | thank and bless the Scandinavian composer. by mentioning myself first, I will do what is pain and anguish to most of us—l will leave off talking about myself.
As to the mannerisms of great composers surely all writers of music, great and small, have their own peculiar idiosyncrasies, with this difference-the mannerisms of the really great are intensely attractive, the last word, as it were, of their own splendid personality, GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
while the mannerisms of fourth or fifth-rate I the Military Authorities that GUN PRAC- fast degree. I suppose the constant unhar INFORMATION has been received from composers are tiresome and irritating to the TICE will be carried out from Lyemun (Pak-manic changes accur in Wagner's scores, the sha-wan Battery), on the night of the 26th
way in which he almost always shirks a full April, 1904, in the direction of the entrance to Junk Bay, at ranges from 650 to 2,000 yards, close, are among what may be called his man- [sa commencing about 7.15 PM. and finishing netisms, Ile is the inventor of certain splen-
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did surprises. I don't think any one could hear the "Walkure," where Brunnhilde warne Siegmund of his coming death, without pro-
found emotion.
The succession of chords given out by the brass instruments is magnificent, and as thrill-
ing as it is magnificent. What a difference be- tween the mannerisms of Wagner and those of
Oh, the pictures that music-real music- can call up! And last, but certainly not least, national music, Hungarian music for instance, with its vital call to lawless, passionate, fascina ting gypsy life. And Eastern music, stranger still, extraordinary suggestively full of sorcery, whirling the spell-bound imagination at will into mysterious regions!
I once heard it to perfection in the great desert of Sahara, standing amid the palms on Two Arabs who had accompanied us were the only human the brink of a beautiful oasis. beings visible in the vast immensity, except chanting verser from the Koran in their peculiar my companion and myself. They had been
Eastern monotone, which no one can imagine
without having heard it. As we reached the desert they left off singing, and we all stood far-away golden sands on the horizon, and silently and watched a golden moon arise from
Aoat serenely into the cloudless sky.
Even in our dreams of Heaven we have always imagined music. None of the other arts, beautiful as they are, have ever been supposed to exist except on this earth; but
THE CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE the ballad fiend of some years ago, who reg Heaven has never been dissociated from music.
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larly divided his song into three movements~-~- a dreary, mouse-coloured andante, followed by a nondescript episode of six or eight bars, which led to a finale "tempo di valse," a valse which I can only imagine danced on a faded magenta carpet by a suburban couple in low spirits.
But there are vales and valser. How differ. ent the whole spirit of those that hail from Vienna-dear, light-hearted Vienna! Who has not enjoyed a valse by Strauss or Gang!? It As Massenet once is perfect of its kind. said to a friend of mine, "C'est l'amour en
bouteille!" The very first bars evoke a vision of youth and gaiety and rose-coloured'dreams In the twinkling of an eye we are excited boys and girls again, living in an enchanted present, without a thought for the past or a care for the future. We can almost smell the roses we
wore in our hair or in our buttonholes, no matter how long ago that may be. I expect there are very few of us who have not felt that it required a good deal of strength of mind to keep the tears nut of our eyes when as sansibia middle-aged people, doing our seasible middle- aged cure at Carlsbad, the dear familiar strains of "Wein, Weib, und Gesang" or the delicious "Amoretten Tanz" have suddenly floated to wards us on the soft summer air. The intervals in the very first bars of a Viennese valse are sufficient to reveal its nationality; the melody
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"As the greatest only are.
in his simplicity, sublime."
I mean Schubert. Few modern composers, if they had the good fortune to be inspired with so lovely a melody as "Lob der Thranen, would condescend to set it to so simple an ac
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companiment. Yet the splendidly dramatic. Eriking, and the "Unfinished Symphony" were written by the same hand. He not only sets poems to lovely melodies, but also all the unexpressed poetry that lies between the lines. "Gretchen am Spinnrade," "Am Meer," "Der Doppelgangerz," will bear ample proof of this assertion. It is no longer ibe fashion to care for melody. Well, I can only say it is a very ugly fashion, like a great many other fashions that have died a natural death. No crape for me when that fashion dies! I shall assist at its funeral attired in all the colours of the WIRE, rainbow, and shall sing a requiem of "Hur- Mrs. Houghton, wife of the hero of the remark. rabs" as its ugly corpse is lowered into the able story related in this issue under the title grave. The composers who sh secure on their "Where Noise is King," had a story to tell not thrones in the heart of mankind-such as Hach, less remarkable than that of her husband. THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Gluck, Bayda-"About six months ago," she explained to a all loved melody.
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I am not going to commit the impertinence of criticising them from my rickety footstool (though I am afraid that by sticking to my love of melody I am running the risk of being told that I might have spared myself the trouble of saying that I was writing from the heart of the country")!
Those other great men, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Brahms, Wagner, Schumann, have already been criticised over and over again by infinitely: witer people than myself. They have told us that Mendelssohn wrote far too many arpeg. gios,_that_Chopin...was too sentimental by far, that Brahma was often, very obscure, that Wagner made too much noise, and that Schu- mann never sufficiently developed bis bigger: works, but was content to repeat his subjects, merely transposing them. It is very easy to find fault, but fortunately it is just as sasy to- take one's ́hat off to the geniuses who out of W, STUART HARRISON, the treasury of their hearts have given us the falry-like "Midsummer Night's Dream" and
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