Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-07-14

The struggles and passions of modern
times sought expressf0nsin art and found
it in music. Goa,
The streams poetry and music
sprang from different fountains
AMI apart from each other. The
former was Il quiet stream which crept
along without leap Orripple to disturb its
calm its path was through dense forests
and dark shadows where the sunlight
seldom smiled and the nymphs came not
to dance, but music was gay, glad river
that tunefully sang to itself a melody
over the pebbly keys,sang i'm the sunlight
OF what it had seen at the celestial fOilIl-
tains Flowers lifted their heads upon its
bankssund gracefully nodded i'm time
with its tune. Even the birds lowered
about to catch the dainty trill. 1t was
free and strong, and sometimes threw up
its arms in waves, and burst into will,
grand harmony. AT length the great
god Beautiful put it into the heart of
man to join the channels of the two
streams, that they might flow together.
Music and poetry were born with man,
and are universal; but while poetry soou
reached maturity OF beauty ami form,
music remained centuries a simple child
few sweet notes. Cggf ETaI
Within the last two centuries music
has risin to far greater height than it
had before attained. Mozart, Mchdlessohn.
Hayden, Beethoven and Bach have filed
the whole world with sweet melodies and
sublime harmonies, which will ring
forever with thrilling power. Music has
greater power over the the emotions and
1,on <,f t.,
sway is universal, over the common
mind as well rs the learned. The weird
old legends of Syrens and Survives attest
that both ancientS and mOdcrns have
recognized its power. Melody is not
wrought by calculation but poured ont
in a stream of song by a power from
within. IN music nature and freedom
wonderfully cOnspire together" a pop
lllar melody that lives in:the hearts of hut
manity from pge 10 age is nor all nature
like the song 0: i bird, but nature with
the freedom ot human intention giving
| it moral signitican,e.
1t seems gaslesally atns;5HEU ,.laI the
aim Of ;'rt az ". prascit Gay is much
| below the STANDARD Of tcrEiei lines. that
ours is not an age Fl ei to produce great
works in art. Public spirit is din ected in
lOtilcI C1fstIIliclS. IL IL UifOuS
age than that of Phidias or the palmy
das of Italy, and that We have great
scientists and ihgenus mechanics. instead
of great artists. is undoubtedly facl
not 10 DC regretted. If productive AR
must decline, taste need not. Greece AMI
Italy have left art enough to eclight AM
educate mankind for ages. 1.-The c;ipacit,
10 appreciate and enjoy" says modern
art critic, lis not confined to the age tha
eonceives and produces th
great work. for if this were so, Home
would have long been dead to fame, ant
Shakespeare forgotten" On the con
trary, the appreciation of art is not usual
ly cOntempOraneously with il. A grea
creation can be but little known and I'M
derstOOd during the life of its author
One life affords not sufficient time, but
its influence extends with the prOgres:
Ofages.and lis eXcellcncies shine brighter
and brighten as it grows old. Time sift.
the whole, and leaving to. oblivion til,
imperfect work, brings up to later age!
| only the truest and best.
| Therefore it is for the present age t(
take unto itself all the blessing of th,
beauty-lOving ages without any of tn,
evils that attend them, fol power to ap
preciatc secures to It's all of art tina
enObieS and elevates."