Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-04-27

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war is over, led the van, in these voshs
Of what LnngfeiIow might call -HovlinC
Dervishts Of song"
This style has lasted logger than any
musical fashion yet known in America
but it is beginning to show signs 0
decay. The subjects after the war en-
braced wider range, but the stereotype
phrase was ever present.
The present style of poems for songs
can be briefly classified. They consi3
Of
First: Angel Songs, already described
In these columns.
Second: Children's Songs, wherein the
of childhood is shown q
that it borders on idiocy. We
have often wondered who would dare e
sing this class of songs; if an adult, the
would become burlesque; it
a child, affectation.
Third: Temperance Songs. These arg
perhaps the worst of the lot. A series
of horrors are recited in them beside
which Bulgarian Atrocities" sink ints,
insignificance. The very mildest have .
starving child, and a drunken father to
start in business with, and often dying
mother is added. The subject is too
real to be turned into hdicule by the
first rhyming genius, and jingly writer,
who adopts it. We have necer sl3 asen q
good temperance song.
Fourth: "Birdie" Songs. Here the
confidence Of . young. lad is usually
given to "Birdie."
Fifth: Irish Songs. In some of these
there is a rolicking style used, but the
majority are vastly otherwise, and the
receipt for making them may be given -
follows:
Take a male and female Hibernian.
quite raw and green, mix large quantity
of "Mavourneen" and Colleen" in
Spice with a considerable quantity Of
"farewells," and "leaviDg the green sod"
Serve ur one in America, the other in
teais.
The only use of Hibernians in this
school of high art is to bid one another
Into this limited range Of subjects, al
most the whole of American music has
came to be nodded. Yet the unmistaka-
BILE signs point to an existing state Of
higher order, even in the masses. Love
songs for example, are not SO saleable
(when very tender) as they were ten
years ago. It may occur with music, -
it has recently with literature, that the
man who discovers the first, will reap the
All will recollect the "blood
and thunder" dime novels, which were
to be the literary food most
craved by the masses of the lower classes;
it is not long since that an enterprisinE
publisher thought that q much higher
species of literature wou Id sell even bet
ter if published at a low price; the ex-
pertinent was tried, and loi the ''mssses"
bought the works of George Eliot, An
thony Trollope, Victor Hugo, and Bull
wer, at ten cents, with more avidity THAI
they had purchased "Red-handed Nike"
or "The Mystic Stiletto Of the Appen-
Mines"
What music publisher will make the
same effort in our field, by bringing out
with neat photographic title pages, the ~
siesf works of Haydn, or some good trans
lation Of the best German -volkes liedes,"
or 10 shorter step in the right directios)
q cheap and popular collection u the
sim plest songs of Alt, Gambert, snA
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