Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-01-11

Music can eoHen pain 10 ease,
Aud. make despair and madness please.
In the history of the Academy o
Sciences there IL an account of must
clan who Was cured Of violent feve
by concer, at his bedside.
In the reign Of Henry III, Of France
the musician, Claude dc Jeune, play
ing AZ the nuptials of the DIXIE d.
Joyeuse in the Phrygian mode, al imat
ed, not the king, but n courtier, VIII,
forgot himself 50 far as TO put his hanC
10 his sword in the presence Of his SOY
ereign but the musician, Fastening t.
calm him, had recourse to the hypo
Phrygian mode.
Boyles mentions some females who
burst into tears when they heard Ger
Ia in tune. which had no uncommon
effect on the rest OF the audience.
Rousseau says that he knew al
Paris q woman Of condition who could
not hear any kind Of music withOu,
being seized with an involuntary and
violent fit of laughter"
Plato says" no change can be made
10 music without affecting the conslitu.
ton OF the State )" and pretends that
there are sounds which excite mean.
ness Of soul, insolence, and their con.
trary virtues.
Polybius tells Ms that music was ne.
cessary TO soften the manners OF the
Arcadians, who inhabited a country
where the ar was cold ard impure
that those Of Cynethia, who neglected
mu SIC, surpassed all the Greeks In
cruelty, and that there was no city in
which 10 many crimes had been com.
Initted.
Music made part Of the study of the
Pythagoreans, who used it 10 inspire
the heart with laudablc actions, and
to infame it with the love Of virtue.
According to these philosophers, our
soul was in "A manner composed Of har,
mony the Dryden Of modern days
says.
From harmony, nom heavenly harmony,
This universal frame began;
Through ali the compass Of the notes II ran,
The diapafon closIIg full In man"
Some authors tell us that music acts
upon inanimate bodies. NorhJF men.
tons IA certain Dutchman, Of the name
Of Pettor, who broke a glass by the
sound of his voice. Kirchner speaks
of great stone which vibrated at the
sound Of a certain organ pipe. Boyle
says that the stalls tIemble often at the
sound Of the organ In a cathedral that
he has felt them tremble under his hand
ut the sound Of an organ or u voice
and that he has been assured that thOse
which were firmly put together vibrated
AT some determined tone. There IL a
famous pillar in the church at Rheims
which trembles sens bly, at the sound OF
\ certain bell, while the other pillars re-
main inotiOnless.
The effect OF the high notes Of the
DianOforte upon the great lion in the
Geological Gardens is very great. At
irst he remains silent and mOtionless
but no sooner are the fiat notes sound
d than he springs up and endeavOrs
10 break loose, lashes his tail And ap.
pears to be arranged and furious, so
much so AZ 10 alarm the female spGcta-
ors. This is accompanied with the
leepest yeIls that cease with the
music.
The effects OF high and low notes have
likewise bee4 tried on Jumbo by play. |
ne on the piaEotorte and French horn.
he upper notes OF the pianoforte
carcely attracted the attention of the
nimal, but the lower notes excited and |
etaihcd it. The full sound Of the
french horn produced the same result.
ir Evrrad Home proves that the
lembrana tynpania Of the elephant is
muscular AZ well as this membrane in
he human subject; but from the great
ifierence in its form and structure in
he elephant, compared with that of the
uman ear, IL il obvious that the
nimal cannot adapt its ear to musical
FUNDS as the human ear can, the tibers
cling of various lengths.