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MUSIC AND THE

ALL-BROW.

WHAT IS A TUNE?

EXTRACTS FROM LAST NIGHT'S

BROADCAST TALK,

724, 1930.

the key to its activity, Repulse Bay. There; now you have mas- tered the ideas of rhythm and key.

· Hore'a a third reason for the in- terese and appeal of the British Grenadiers. This time listen to it with all the notes played with equal length-Dull anil monoton- bus, isn't it? And this is where

After some preliminary work of

The following extracts are taken from the second talk entitled "What organization,, a new Chinese com pany, named the South China 13 a Tune" in the "lusic and the Motor-Shipbuilding & Repairing All Brow" broadcast last night Radio Hong Kong Works, Ltd., was formed few from the months ago and registered in Station:-

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The question to be tackled to night is "What is optune'

In

get away from conventional rules-regulations. There is 110 faw to guvern the lengths of in- dividual notes in a tune; this is entirely left to the discretion, skill or genius of the compaser. fact, this is the turning-point at which musie ceases to be a science composer, can show his own person- and becomes an art wherein ality

Art of Phrasing,

the

other

The last feature for you to notice is that of phrasing a subtle charm, too often ignored oven by so-called good musicians. Just as commas, semi-colons and

Bentence of any length needs its punctuation marks so does & musical idea need to be gently broken up, to satisfy an intelligent ear, otherwise it would be as mono- tonous as the phraseology of a legal document For the last time, listen to "the British_Gren- adiers with the separate phrases, or subsidiary idene, exaggerated to make them more clear

Those are the main points of at- traction, time, key, note-length and phrasing..

Hong Kong on June 12, as a. The intention of last week's talk private limited company with an was to knock a nail into the coffin of musical intolerance, whether on authorised capital of E.K.$250,000.

the part of high, middle or low The object of this company was to esmúlish a shipyard on one of brows. In addition, music was do- the marine lots po the Peninsula, fiued as "a coherent sequence of

sound changes." " This project was, however, aban doned as a result of negotiations, with the Hong Kong Government for the purchase of one of the last As everyone knows what a tune remaining valuable marine lots is, this seems a famous sort of known as K... No. 90, with a question on the face of it. If you total area of 999,000 square feet, situated at To Kwa Wan, Kowloon were to go the trouble of defining a tane, doubtless you would call Bay, which for many years was occupied by the Kwong Tak Cheong it "a string of notes" or "a coher Shipbuilding, Engineering Ladent sequence of single sounds." Dock Co., Ltd., whose yard until Agreed; but let us go a bit fur-

Now apply them for yourselves to the other example, "Drink to me a few years ago built more than

everyone listening only" You will find that the tune ther. Now, think of any tune you like. Let is that of a waltz, or three beats us wait a few seconds whilst you to a bars that the length of the call to mind-Right; here are a

notes does not vary so much, being few more questions that need settlin keeping with the restfulness of ing. Firstly, why have you been just as definite, though longer. Try the words, and that the phrases are

The whole area with a Crown able to remember that particular with other really good tunes; one lease of 73 years, with a further tune? Secondly, what holds this, cannot know too much about old

friends. extension of 75 years, including string of notes together so as to marine rights, all buildings and

make them coherent: Thirdly, fittings thereon. were acquired from the Hong Kong Government a why, are the individual notes not few days ago at the reasonable of the same relative lengthi price of H.K. $295,000.

Fourthly, What is a note? Fifth- The present directors of the prily, at this rate it will be almost vato limited company have, by special resolution, decided to form impossible to deal with all these this company into & public limited points in our allotted time. company, and intend to issue an increased number of shares, making the capital H.K.$1,000,000.

120 ships. Another agréement has been signed with another firm to extend the shipyard on an adjoin ing ground with an area of 145,000 square feet, thus making the total area of 307,000 square, feet in case of necessity in future.

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Let's take the line of least resis tance by arguing from the par- Some of the prominent business ticular to the general. Here are a men have been invited to serve uncouple of tunes which have stood the Board of Directors of the the test of time and are still popu“ newly-formed Company.

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The objects of the Company are

lar"The British Grenadiers" and

The British Grobediers.

to organize modern and up-to-"Drink to Me only." We will. con- date shipyard and repairing works, centrate on the first of these two. specialising in motor shipbuilding and repairing of motors, of all descriptions. The shipyard will The proper setting for "The also undertake to build or repair British Grenadiers" is in a mili- ships other than those driven oytary Review-it being the universal. Diesel motors.

Diesel Engines,

military march past. Now let' your imagination get to work as it is played again. Do you It is a well-known fact that motors, motorships, and Diesel notice how there is a periodic ac engines, are being built on an in-cent, which simply asks to be em- creased scale every year. Factories phasised as the left foot comes to and other power plants on land the ground? When the music is are steadily replacing their steam actually get down on paper, these engines with motors and Diesel engines, which are far more econ- omical

strong beats," as they are called, are especially indicated by being written as the first note in each The new company will be in a bat-the "bar" in the script being position to take full advantage of a conventional enclosure of notes all the latest epoch-making inven-between two upright lines, which tions in shipbuilding and avoid in consequence show where this having any part of their capital "beat" comes. Now please notice, tick up in obsolete equipment.

All steam and gas engines will be eliminated, and the whole ship- yard machinery and most of the important tools will be driven by electricity, and only the latest equipment will be used.

Five building berths for ships up to 350-100 feet in length are at their disposal, and the present two slipways will be replaced by the most up-to-date ones, the No. 1 slipway will be up to 250 feet and the No. 2 will be up to 150 feet in length. The shunting winches for these slipways will be driven also by electricity.

you can count four" "beats" over and over again, starting with "one" on each strong beat....You' have now got the idea of musical rhythm, or "time," as it is called. In this particular case you have four beats in each bar, and as this is a very usual form of rhythm, fitting as it does the marching soldier, the plodding ploughman, the capstan hauler, and so on, it a known as "common time." So far so good; we have dug well into one reason for the interest of the "British Grenadiers" which is its lilt, rhythm or time.

Question of Key."

The shipyard and repairing works will be under the mannge- And now we will go for the ment of an experienced motor notes themselves. (To save time, shipbuilding Dicel engine and

we will accept a musical "note" motos engineer who has been en-

for granted-you know perfectly gaged from Europe.

well that it is.) Obviously there The new

company promise to must be some underlying relation give their customers every satisfac abip between them to make them tien so far as good workmanship cohere, or hang together. Firstly and reasonable prices are concern- let us consider the question of edi

"Key."

Ready in September.

:

Imagine that as an overture to At present a large number of

play the British Grenadiers" workmen are engaged in repairing is played on the theatre orchestra. the buildings and modernising the shipyard, which will be ready for In the middle of the bar, the con operations at the latest on Septem ductor gets a peremptory red light to shut down, as the curtain is ber 1 although the replacing of about to rise. If he is an ineffici the alipways and the installation-of

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a few more additional plants will eat fellow, he will stop his players not be completed at the same time, at once, with a most unreposeful but will be ready as soon as posending as likely as not. If he knows his job, he makes the or- chestra play just one or two notes and ends them up satisfactorily on a note of repose. This note provides the key to the whole situa The Hoi Took Shipping Co., Ltd., tion and gives us at the same time. have placed an order for the con- the general idea of the "key" of struction of two up-to-date motor the tune. Though you may not ships, the keel of which will be have been aware of it, this key- laid at the end of September. note" has been subconsciously in There is also every possibility that your mind all the time the tune in repair work the shipyard will is played Listen to the effect of have ample support from the be it combined with the tune it ginning, as they have the pro self, The keynote marks the me of mangallknown thin straight path between two points The firm of Messrs. Brandt & Co., that only occasionally Keope to will sign as General Managers their path, but ends on it at the Their office, together with that of final destination. Rule a straight the South China Motor Shipbuild- line one map of Hong Kong ing & Repairing Works, Ltd., is from the Star Ferry to Repulso on the 3rd floor, St. George's Bay. Get into a car and see how Building, Chater Road, Hong your road meanders on each ride Kong, with a branch office in of that line. The line is your sub- Canton and a Europeni agent in conscious keynote and the road is Hamburg, Germany.

the tune, which finally lands on

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