New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-08
sIr. Fry's Second Lectarc on Music.


on Music was listened TO at Metropolitan Hall last
evening with great satisfaction by numerous auIi
ence. Mr.. Fry's manner Is not that OF practised
public speaker and the endcavor to pronounce his
words with emphasis sometimes renders it difficult to
catch their meaning when If spoken coloquiaily they
would he ineligible throughout he Hall But the
matter Of last evenings discourse indicated the pro
foundes acquaintance with the history Of music and
degree Of curious learning in ,as music Of China
siam India and Europe Of the middle ages, which
a. novel as II was instructive TO hs hearers Mr. Fry
showed thai the Chinese were the earliest inventors Of
the musical scale and notation wing possessed them
Ions before Pythagorns The lecture W illustrated Ivy
the Performance by orchestra and chorus of Chinese,
samcse and Indian melodies and chorals some Of
them Of the most venerable antiquity The IIindos.
lance airs were very beautiful and would do no ds.
credit the sweetest Italian composer Of our own day
No lover Of music should miss the instruction and
pleasure to be derived from these lectures
The fret part o.. this lecture appropriated to ex.
plantations of the hrs, lecture which the audience or
s,me Of tho newspapers, had complained Of as being
too long. Hasing made this explanation Mr Fry said
without further preface the history Of Music Illus.
uated. will be taken up The highest antiquity Of
Music is generally cedcd to Egypt But sp,aking ex
countries China In thnt large Empire. where the
fancy brood over hoary abyss, whether Of the
act biblical years of the world The ranscendant est
mates OF Philosophy, there We ind at this moment, art
letter. sanctions customs. as they were thousands
Of year ago people who reads in is living dialect
novels printed about the time Of the Christian era as
thocgh they were is.ued from the pres. yesterday
can assert claims beyond all others to the greatest
IN ef uu.rokpn n.stpnof That natio nj
thoulh IL history oyeraps all others commended
10 by he dear attractions Of plastic lyrical beauty
It. theoretic ana material forms strange and gro
tesquc O. Us Greece in an csthetic sense, aud
Greco alone Of all oden names make the scholars
heart beat more quickly suiuse the artists eye
and cause lin 20 people in fancy land Of lost gods
AID broken Giars with the worshippers OF Beauty
when the Dephic oracle spoke or Sappho swept the
lyrs But to look at Oriental Art az the o. lost inherit
auco of the dread and mystc pastOf that time which
bordered on the age when not--has d deeper
significance than ordinary inquiry. The history Of
Music il the history Of the JOYS and sOrr0w Of the hui
man spiEit-of is infancy. wildness growth. and
grandeur Nailed to the cross Of memorable
custom, whatever expansions the Chinese mind
once had lfeless and have long been. This
l. fully exhibited in their music Cer0in arts have
been reserved for modern times and for Europe and
America, ard among them harmony or the combina
tion If musical parts, which science clearly
unknown 10 the ancents and the Chinese 10 this day
have 70 combinations o. ssInds using only the scpar
ate links OF melody To show what the ideas Of
their critics harmony. they say-what would be
thought Of artist who would paint the history OF 20
dyuastes in picture how non.en-ical then 20 put
all the notes in combination But perhaps there
il not so much difference may be imagined in this
particular between the Chinese sud the rest of the
world for the public in every country prefer great
singCr 10 the beet harmonic combinations OF multi
tudas There is something 100 ia the human hear
which attaches il 20 individuals and not 70 masses
Hence the cructes Of caste and OF loyalty the king
Hence there il more sympathy bestowed upon one
Napoleon dya- AZ - Helena in a luxurious bed than
uion tie millions OF conscrpts summoned dragged
from the rhs and rewards Of labor 10 be roasted with
a-Onies o. slow fires Smoleusko 20 shrek beneath
The hot and cold blasts OF artillery and the Arctic
Beresila md make the bone. Of brave and brawny
hands skeleton finger post from Oporto to Petersburg
Hence in this country, though Patrick Henry with The
ihundcrs OF genius struck out the truth that three
millions Of rccmen, armed in the holy cause OF liberty
sre iuvucible yet the Oftiesf monument IN Ia world
/. no. 20 le erected 20 thee three millions but 20 one
veneratcl name IL il this proclvfy to inly.dualize
that the Chinese, though they the authors
Of the TWO chang workers Of civilization and without
which liberty cannot exlst-prntng aud gurpowler-
10 reject musical harmony and all IT, laws and beauties
Tn their system and practice they detail eisht differ
e., Qualities Of sound under which all can b. clas-ed
Metal stone silk. bamboo. gou-d earthenware. skins
AMI wood Ills division, according to them, IL not
Fictitious but 10 be found in nature. They believe
that although an the different tones are % BE- found in
4 81. h. 30.
belonging to more than TO all the others ani that IA
ture in combining H. particle which produces il,
made provision for universal concord
Tie deterrent substances made into instruments.
They ere besides TIA; most popular in America the
gong The bamboo pipes. The Kin body OF thin
wood carved Ike the top Of violin 10 Increase reson
aucc-with I've strings OF SIX Of different sizes. The
Cha an instrument kindred 20 toe Ain put having The
chrons-ic scale.
t. King. q frame Of word with pendant stone
,r.,ea,.d through IL notes anu struck with a ham.
mer
Besides these Instruments they have drums spe-
e.es OF Cute which anc.eniiy had bur three finger
Lo,z and brass instruments Of the trgrpe; species
Also. -utsr. more nearly resembling Tie mandolin OF
b,uo. and likewise lttle boards with pleasant sound
Diagrams Of these instruments were exhibited
he next touched upon The SieHsse music which has
much affinity for The Chinese playing s-amese air. -
way Of illustration.
The music Of Hindostan next received attention
They sssi.u IL orig.n 70 Brahma himself
Explanations Of IHian r2usl- were given and iii.
gram exhibited giving view Of ihe mlse-heaven
Of the liz docs which bore analogy The Greek ale
gories Their transcendenal analysis Of music were
$50 uccc5 and tn sot,ress OF their poetry rgaIng
the Italian Two Eas' Indian melodies, harm0L-zei
~ NJ FRI. were sung by the Chorus Nth great ap-
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