Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-04-13

soul OF harmony" for in much of our |
music the soul OF the ha mony-if It have
any soul, indeed-ls most eff. ctually and |
hopelessly hidden. While in reply to |
Congreve, who first told the world that |
Music hath charmes to soothe the saw
age breast" We answer that eayage |
breast is about all that some Of our music |
would soothe.
In one OF our musical journals recipe !
Is given for sentimental song, aad us
many of the compositions under cons d. !
Grafton seem to be made in the same oven
and cooked by the same fire, ] give 1t as
1t stands.
"Taltc young boy VINO - dying,
Dying to n patent tune;
Plant him soon, where lirdllng5 flying
Wnrb,c In the month of June.
Lay him by his brother Willie,
Ask his mother ITO weep DER u.s."
Though 1t sounds IA triflc silly,
1t Will pass in song and Chorus"
Let there he IN upward swooping
At the end of every line,
NJ Ike the mother sad and dropping
In IA picturesque decline.
Put an angel on the cover,
Also sketch n cemetery,
And a rainbow bending over,
Which will be cilcgtivo--Vcry.
Let minstrel band sonorous
sing to crowd immense.
Mark IL. splendid Song and Chorus.
PICTrHE TITLE. FORTY CENTS.
Now because our Sunday school is the
nursery OF the church Il Is no reAol that
1t Should be led on nursery music. Many
OF our books are hiled With Jingle.
Much OF the music is like the part play.
,,Ik "a, .s,,tt l.f1nf l'at,l ba al AZ,
extamp re 'ior IL Is nothing nut roar
ing." There should be sUme substance
in the music and there is plenty OF good
music from which TO select, some
thou hit in the phrlsc, some pabul IN for
the taste and 10 tune should be p pular-
lied simply because IL makes the people
pat their feet, thus We are tod is to sing
with the spirit az vel as the understand
ing also.
| Al the same time he other extreme is
equal v faulty. This is not a good field
for vocal or Instrumental pyrOtcrhgics
| Glass cal discUrds, m!duT phrases, uuli-
| piled and c W. plea ed Sccilenta's should
I be conspicuous by their absence or thuuld
be sparn ly used / haya oilen wished
whel looking through Sunday school
singing book of the more ambitious sort
that We might have Musical Accidental
Insurance Company, or that we could ly
some IN ans recover damages after an
accidental ilGunder aud overthrow.
1 These acc lus ieil gym astics may be + ch
and harmon Gus and may give pleasing g
variety, and per, onally have weakness
for The Introduction OF new chord that
/ throws the music for PHI asc or two out
OF the dominant k,y,but they work hay {
In thn ordinary Sunday school eSctcis, S.
have occasionally used the C0rRet with
such music aud have lea ned To dol &c
the accidental or tear t at the jar wi /
The sceool, which usually and Coll'y r.
norcs such r, ,fur ment o. Fit would
break the horn or throw II Gus OF TUE
forever.
The Chi dren haze not learned The an
Client and ac cot. d nethod ( chm ging
the tone to "h" I rR sharp ar to a. iur
IA hat ard they do no. 20 TO sunday
school either to learn or to practic This.
Besides, II necessary, really good N mus!-
clgus can write really Z cd music without
depending upon such recruits OF Falstall
for a'tractivrness aud o. II ct.
There shoull also he some adaptation
as to range Rarely is 1t safe to 20 ba
youd ngl, octave. From q below to
lG ABOVE is a saio limit. Oi courfe there
are plenty of voices that have wider
compass, but Sunday school music should
be written iur Sunday school children
and not for prlma donnas. Anything be.
low this line is apt to be One a growl,
anything a o'o will develop in o a
scream.
SO much for the muse, and now a
word or two in reference To the words to
which this music may bs set. These
wolda shou d mean something and this
meanin thou'd be easily understood. SO
many OF our Sunday school songs are in-
tended tp be sung. EIEar Pos claims
! that he fixed upon certain stanza in the
! Raven as The climax ol the poem an
then dc ibefately weakened all lhi
stanzas prece ling go that the effect OF the
climax might not be marred. ESlleItly
we have MT yet reached tho climax in
many OF the maCaronics that are printed
| ln the singing books. Their authors did
their duty rs far as the weakening pro-
cess is concerned, but tn y forgot to
write any climay. OF course 1t would
not be safe to particularize, but to show
what mean let me give an old stanz1
once quite popular, but now 80 far out
Of date that run no risk in quoting ii
In this connections:
aye monsters of the briuy deep,
Your Makers praises spout,
/ In from your sands yc codlings creep,
And wlg your tails about.
Now this stanza seems to be very rev.
erential and is undoubtedly very rhyth-
mical and a good lusty-Voiced sunday
school could make 1t echo DER and o'er
but It is not proper Sunday school
song nevertheless. | cannot refrain from
quoting from q book which lies open be-
fore me-a book not twenty years old,
and one which has been very popular
In Its day. The stanza is from Christ
mas carol, and reads:
"a little child, u maiden fair,
Her watch beside him kcening-
And angels wondered rs they Guzed
And shook their starry Wlngs;
They sitw their Lord before them
HG, an infant, calmly sleeping
o, love OF God, surprising all
Mysterious hidden things
Will gome one tell me where Is th'
rhyme or the reason either In that dog
gerel, and yet our Sunday schools Wef'
, singing that last Christmas.
There should always be some elioit on
the part OF the leader to make clear th'
meaning OF the words. Some OF the mos
startling ideas have been gotten from al
ordinary hymn by the quicE-eared, Keen,
witted children. A boy came from school
one afternoon and asked his mothel
what kind of bear "consecrated cross
/ eyed bear" was, as they had been singing
about one In the class. Ot course ther,
was consterr alton in that household until
It was learned that the school had beer
singing the 666th hymn of the Methods
collection, and the line which seemed tt
refer to an unusual and distressing cas-
Of urslne stfabismus was the eimpi'
1 4 a.