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LIMITS OF MUSIC.

THE TWO NATURAL SPHERES.

J

music lives.

fontact with both. If it wishes to comes a series of notes, a chaos, a be a complete exposition of the mass of sounds, but not music. At tonal world, it must organize the the same time it must be borne in world of pure resonances as well as mind that tonal euphony and tonal that of the emotions, usually Inevit-expressiveness are an entirely con able, which accompany them.

crete, and I might say a physio- [By Leonid Sabuncev.]'

logically evident something, having TWO SPHERES. There was a happy time when a

its roots in our Kuman organiza. The art of music is Interpolated tion. question of this kind could not have

The laws of euphony and its been raised, when music had by no between these two immemorial, attainment, are the laws of our or means reached its natural limite, and natural spheres. It is the plane ganiam, of our physiology. Esson- But now, in these days of utter mu-of its existence, the space in which tially the artist in tones always sical confusion, the question asks

The design and pur-solves one and the same problem by pose of the organization of the tonal maximum and minimum,' to use a itself.

The occasion seems to be provid-plane is to provide, under given con- mathematical expression; in the ed by those products of the new tions, tonal impressione supreme given conditions to find the maxi- musical creation concerning whichly agreeable to the ear. The ormum of euphony and the maximum a natural doubt arises as to whether ganization of the emotional associa of expressiveness. they belong to the sphere of music, tions aims at obtaining the most or even of-art in general. Every vivid and distinct emotions with the season more and more of them make least possible expenditure of its their appearance, especially since resources. In rejecting one or other their fabrication is not restricted of these spheres, music merely sue by any laws, and the flooding of the ceeds in voluntarily impoverishing musical market with wares of an in- itself. In depriving itself of emo- tional reaction, in suppressing the ferior quality is accomplished with

emotions in itself and in its tissue, perfect.freedom.

The laws of euphony and expres- siveness and the methods by which they are to attained have not yet been accurately formulated. Musical theory has ingged far behind in- tuition and artistic practice. The majority of the rules created by theorists are restricted to sphere of euphony, and have no re-

the

The queation as to how and why music is converted into a dry and ference to the attainment of expres the musical art has come to such a formal tonal design, into a tonal siveness. The whole of musical his- state is a complicated and difficult ornament, which has but little in-tory as far as the 20th century is terest. The music which, for the nothing less than the gradual in-

FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1928.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This' cross-word puzzle has been made by an expért but our readers are, warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

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HORIZONTAL 1-Highest point 6-Reporte 11-Before 12-Indulge 13-8mall deer 14-To like better 16-Horrified 18-Cosi scuttle 17-Rub out 19-Touched off 20-Period of time

(abbr.)

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24-Point of compass

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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE,

HORIZONTAL (Cont)

|37-Exclamation

35-Tropical fruit 40-Flower. (pl.) 42-Play on worda 43-Bloom

144-Assault

45-Meadow 146-Tally

47-Anger 48.One's entire

property 49-Less fresh

VERTICAL

t-Saft hrecie 2-Mistake

3-Want

28-That which dividas"

30-importune

Personal pronoun

31-8pigǝt

one. The chief cause is undoubted- ly to be found in the fact that the gratification of expressiveness, destruction of composers in the art of musical reaim is overbuilt and ex-finitely destroys the charm of tone, imparting euphony to the most com- hausted, and also in the desire of is already reverting to barbarism, plex tonal combinations. The fault every worker in it to give expres-to the unorganized expression of the of the theorists is not that, in gen sion to something of his own, even emotions, to a state of savagery. eral, they took the liberty of at though it be useless and harmful. These two spheres protect and pre- tempting to establish certain rules In music it has became crowded, and serve each other, and we notice that and to make certain generalisations stifting, hence the appearance of an equilibrium is maintained in the from their practice of the art of phenomena; great musical works. In the strug- achieving musical euphony: it lies various undesirable

the in the fact that they have, so far music has burst its bounds and is le between them and in Inundating the surrounding coun-achievement of this equilibrium is been unable satifactorily to formul try, which in general has nothing to the meaning of music as mastery, ate the complete and general laws do with art. But, apart from this, as an art in the restricted sense of of euphony-to produce the formu-

And usually the great lae of the there have been other reasons far the term.

conditions precedent this overflowing of its boundaries. composers found the best expres to the appearance of the pheno- and the principal of them is the sion of their genius, and imparted

menon of euphony. We cannot polish to their mastery, in the blame them for it, since theoretical shattering of all the norms foundations on which the musical mutual control of these two spheres thought on the subject is still some--

to what feeble. Musical theorists have, art (whether judiciously or other and in inevitable subjection wise is another question) has relied both.

on the whole, been craftsmen rather than philosophers and selen. for hundreds of years, and by whore

tific thinkers, and their mastery of scientific methods has sometimes been very poor and never very good. Instead of general formulae they have given us a series of recipes for cuphony which have proved to be too partial on the one hand and too general on the other, having in «YARD" OVERHAUL. the cluded much that does not come within the concept of euphony. They were insufficient and not in dispensable.

and

Tonal charm constituted the Apol- ico-operation it has attained its on-linian moment of the musical art, ormous development in Europe. its form; the emotional pathos im- is its Dionysian mo- I do not dispute that many of the planted in

The mutual norms created by musical theory ment, its 'content,' were arbitrary, and often narrow; penetration of these two spheres is but they provided musical creation expressed in the law that tonal with a certain framework or akele- charm alone, deprived of emotional ton, and imparted atability to the colouring, becomes unpleasing from

the

actual structure of the musical art. These rules and improvised laws may have been imperfect, but with- out them music has proved to be an amorphous element, which is as suming the offensive and threatens

that

fact very double nature of tone, protests, and demands equal rights for the other half of its entity; and in the law that emotionality alone, clothed in unacceptable tonal vest-

NORMS.

But life has drawn from this

norms

From the unsuccess-

Hasto

VERTICAL (Cont.) B-Verbal

9-Resin

10-Kind of dog 1B-Radlo antennas 21-Clay original of a

statue 23-Material used for

Jowetry

26-Large

27-Plot of ground 29-8all chancos on |32-One engaged in

banking

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[pl.)

33-Power

38-Period of time (pl.) 37-Money.

39-An animal

140-Pause (Mus.)

$3-Part of verb "to be" -To cook in an oven; 41-Let it stand '38-Soar

7-Incita

42-Bucket

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EXPLANATION OF LORD BYNG'S "CALL TO DUTY."

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"It is known that all the factors of the situation were fully discussed with Lord Byng These Included

the need for increased efficiency in a need brought some directions,

but by the automatic growth

of

"Such changes will require force-

MANY REFORMS. to turn the musical art back to the ments, loses much of its effective, other conclusions for which there

Musical beauty is attained is little foundation. From the fact and well-informed authority on the Light was thrown by an eminent days of the negroes and cannibala.ness. Music. of course, is not an act but when both spheres are so

equally that these recipes, created hurriedly reason for the appointment of Vis- a process, the protracted, sempiter-balanced that one helps and does and by the home-made, journeyman count Byng Viny, at the age of nal process of the growth of not hinder the other; we then get method, did not cover the whole 65, to succeed General Sir William the maximum tenseness of tonal phenomenon of musical euphony, it Harwood as the head of Scotland a certain phenomenon known AR 'musical culture. It is is necessary

charm and emotional expression. is inferred that is general there are Yard. to tend this flower, to protect it. This problem and the meaning of it. no norms whatever, that music is

The "Evening Standard" naked from the inroads of an ever-watch-all are almost mathematically clear, free, that it, will not tolerate any this authority if he could explain ful barbarism. The age-long cul. and there is no doubt that the an-limitations.

what the Home Secretary meant ture of laste, essentially a conven-cient friendship between music-| ful attempts of theorists to formul- when he used the words "A very tional culture, is a precious trea- the language of the gods--and ate the laws of musical euphony it stem call to duty" in reference to sure, and therefore anything that mathematics is due to the mathema-is concluded that the laws them-Lord Beng destroys it, that mutilates its pre-tical features involved in the pro-selves have no existence in Nature.

The answer was:-- blem.

Is there, therefore, complete cursors, must be regarded as a bar-

"It may be taken that the Home Each of these spheres possessed a chaos and дп utter barism.

lack Secretary and his advisers are These boundaries, these

and limitations? embankments which sustain the certain individual elasticity, and of

aweiting the proposals 50, it is Impossible pressure of chaos in art, may even liked to protect its frontiers and safe. If

to Savidge Tribunal relative to police be arbitrary on the whole, but they guard its existence. Tonal charm draw the line between music and a procedure, and the more far-reach-about not only by recent incidents, must exist, since, just as an indivi- or euphony formed the stable, con- casual collection of sounds-which ing report of the Committee an dual composition is obliged to have servative party in the musical par- may even be formed without the as- Street Offences, presided over by the Force as a whole. form, so music in general is always liament. It protected euphony and sistance of the human will. Obvi Mr. Hugh Macmillan, K.C., which, restricted in some way. Usually its principles (and even the casual-ously, an hypothesis of this kind it is anticipated, will be ready by fulness and capacity for organiza- tion, which Lord Byng undoubtedly the great composers have been by y-discovered theoretical formulae) was most useful to untalented and the close of September. no means hostile to limitations; in-against the too passionate attempts, not very musical men, to whom it "Undoubtedly these inquiries al-possesses. deed they have cherished the fetters of expressiveness. On the other opened a path to the temple of fame, ready have focused official attention which they themselves have im-hand the latter atrove to wrest from and whom it relieved of the necessity on the need for reorganization in the sphere of euphony the maximum of studying anything thoroughly. the Metropolia and something akin posed on their art, in order to emerge triumphantly from the al- freedom for the expression of its For some time, however, the native to an overhauling of police regula- most sporting contest with the sensuous nature. The whole his intuition of composers, and a certions.

Traffic Duties. Bach shut tory of the musical art passed tain inertia of style, and of the

"The additional duties thrown on himself up in the fugue, Beethoven through this struggle, these clash-tonal babita accumulated through

ages, hindered the

swift the police by, among other things, in the sonata, Wagner in the system ings of the musical Whigs and

overwhelming collapse of traffic in the streats have created a of leit-motifs, and it is only the con- Tories, And some degree of equili

temple of music which need for reconsideration of the temporary barbarians who race un-brium was attained, which cond!-

had taken 30 long to build. police establishment in London. hampered about a free tonal field, tioned the growth and preservation

Men who in theory rejected imagining that, as artists, they gain of tonal culture, the development principles in art, in practice often purely police, traffic and other of the higher commands and

"The question of a division of of an organic musical consclous-

showed themselves to be sufficiently, duties will have to be investigated. | re-casting of the contract between Į Music is an art whose form is ness, and the education of taste.

though not systematically, guided. "The machinery of control has the police, the authorities, and the tone; it is consequently au artistic

EUPHONY.

by them, and even remained inert. been found to be too centralised Government. organization of the tonal world. For me personally there is The destruction of the edifice was, in some respects to be intimate and But tone in itself has a two-fold | nothing mysterious or debatable in however, only deferred, and its quickly effective. nature: On the one hand it is all this. The limits of music are downfall was hinted at just at the "Moreover, recent events have purely the sensation of resonance, defined by these two spheres, and moment when musicians questioned affected adversely, certainly not to on the other it is 'expression,' and music ceases to be auch when it is the existence of the laws forming; a vital extent, the spirit of some "THE CHINA MAIL,” General has for man, apart from any desire altogether lacking in even one of the corms of their art, because the sections among the police.

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