Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-02-05
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Mn. EDITOR I'm connection with what
has been remarked on the Science of
Music in a former number of the GA
zette,' we would beg leave to insert a few
ideas which may suggest themselves, and
which may, perhaps, claim a passing
glance by your many patrons; and
First, let it be remembered that it is
not 10 any peculiar or isolated class that
the silvery voices, so enchanting, or the
deep yet soul-stirring tones which proceed
from a well-developed chest, are to be
found. We may go to the house of the
millionaire and enter his villa (Which is
surrounded with a wide-spreading lawn),
there gilded tapestry adorn the walls and
dazzle the eye, there viandS of various
kinds are spread out to allure the taste
yes, nothing is wanting to add to the COM
fort and happiness of the inmates, and
there the sweet strains Of harmony are
ever and anon echoing thro' gilded halls
or, we may enter the house of the cot
tager, which can boast of neatness, tho
not of luxurience, ali scarcely knowing
from whence to expect the supplies for the
next day, and here we are greeted with
varied melody by the daughter of ''sweet
sixteen" who is a. blithesome as the lark.
But notwithstanding there are many in
every class of society whose voices would
produce sweet harmony, yet, when It's
desired to perform the nicities of the
incest strain in some difficult solo, we find
a want Of melody which is the result of a
want of cultivation.
90 All the theory which may be impaired
by the ablest and best informed instructor
in Music, will fail TO produce the desired
end, if unaided by that most essential and
most efficient helper, PRACTICE.
In Music, as much, or more so, than in
any other science, do we find the old
adage verified, 'wacfice makes perfect
therefore the consistency of making the
Music Book a daily partner for any one
wishing to attain any degree of perfec-
ton, for we are well aware, perfection in
any science or art is not Our sphere while
travelling these labyrinthic walks on Terra
Firma. ~ u'
As soon might we expect in a day, a
month, or a year, to scan the hill of sci
ence, and then have the wreath of %laurels
to deck our brow, as to expect, by one
herculean stroke, TO go from a babe TO a
full-grown man in the pleasing art-(Mu-
sic).
AS regards the beauties of the science,
they speak for themselves in tones not to
be misunderstood or misconstrued by the
most equiyocal. w
o. We have confined our remarks to Vo-
cal Music. for in this we find every one
endowed by the Great Giver with thai
most complicated, and yet most durable Of
all instruments we mean the human
voice, with its symphonious sounds-its
sweet cadenza-its barytone strain-its
deep baSso tones-its high clear melody,
which, whether it enliven to rapture OF
calm to repose-whether it be subdued OIL
Observation-Disclosures it issue from the deer
pipe of man or the softer breast of woman
has something more sublime. touching and
varied than that produced by any instru.
ment which the ingenuity and mechanism
of man has yet devised.
Methipks no one should m~isimprove
This particular, given them especially wheI
urged on by the numerous examples pre-,
sented by nature in its various phases
Listen to the notes of the lark as she
MARBLES forth her morning lay-to the
gentle murmurs of the ripping stream
that to the sylvan nymphs doth nightly
chant a nocturnal song-to the harmony
of the forest-to the trumpet notes of thu
gale-and to the tremendous tones o.
thunder as they echo and re-echo along
the black orchestra of heaven, and lheI
plead an excuse for neglecting this mos
social science, which had its origin a
early as the Creation, for twas there 9Th,
morning stars sang together and the son
OF God shouted for joy" Surely, 'twa
not intended that we should remain IN 81