Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-12-02
MUSICAL CULTURE.
WELL MEANING HINTS, BUT NOT
TOO KIND FOR, THE AMATEUR.

YOURS Its Own Children and Stays
Itself - Radical Changes Concerning
Instruments and Sex.
Al speech 10 thought, ns pictorial art
10 external nature, 10 practical music to
music the element. And for this out
ward and audible art form music Is de-
pendent on human mediums, and those
human mediums require certain prepa-
ration TO fit them for the reception and
the transmission OF their message. To
some people. In whose natures musical
sympathy IA strong. this preparation
comes easily and almost unconsciously.
But the great majority need q kind OF
naturalization before they can breathe
and move freely in an element moro or
less strange to them, and this acclma-
tization is what We know us musical
culture"
Most people have some latent musical
faculty, and this Is capable of develop
ment. Tho notion has Mt any rate died
out that IL was cireninato for u man TO
play the piano and impossible for u
woman to play the violin. II Is not 80
long since, In tho upper classes, no girls
education was considered even approxi-
mately complete without n large amount
of piano forte drill-music 1t shall not
no callca-vhile n certain proficiency in
,h,s rcsncc. was loo often held 10 atone
se- Tho absonee OF ali other culture.
Tho violin on tho other hand was
held 10 he GOOD only for men; PERHAPS
wa sbonld restrict the term and say for
8ddlcrs. Rows now and then learned n
ii,,lc ~ tho instrument nj school-a
lnowledre soon TO DO dropped and for
cotton. The difference now scarcely
1cod, 10 be pointcd out. Boys and girls
On nn,nbcrs and not "A few who are no
Hanger bovs or girls. nro learning to play
on IN, violin and other stringed instru-
ments. Tho discovery has boon made
tbat. thouah n yi,tuoso must begin early,
DIS not necessary to practice half tho
aay M four or five yenrs old In order to
no n good usoful PLAYER at twenty.
Enee,nblo classes and school orches-
,ras show that ON onr amateurs the truth
"a n, Iast dovniny that unlimited solo
,,.rso,m,rca Ia NOT tho ultimate aim Of
III ,,,sic ,,,lnipg. That while only n
gifted fow can attain 10 high Individual
a..aiIo,co aud anish. tho combination
os,nany atoms NJ good. too small TO DO
~ INV nso sinply. may result in an Of.
Zoe, which "a not only good. but great.
so lon, no mnsic. not self DISPLAY. IA tho
.hiec. sought after.
/, n,.v Ia roundlv stated M n peneral
t,n,h fiat mpsical study proclaims itself
a, ibe bonsetons. without ccnsing for an
instant toasscrt itself In the rarrct. in tho
bn.c,non, npd M mndry intermediate
no,n,s Tho stndonta friends assist Mt
evcrv s,avn of his prorross: they are In.
yoinn,a,y and mostly unwill,np nartici-
,orain his dif,,culties. his perseverance,.
h,s ,,,r,nrh apd bia desuair. We'll for
,ha,r AZ two or three spch dramas nro not
go,ny on In tho bonso mt once. 70 saw
So,h,,y ~ urobnble uuirs OF melody and
harmony from next door or over tho way.
Thnt tho character of musical practice
IA far superior TO what II used to DO avail
tbese helpless ones but little.
10 them II Is an insignificant fact
comnared with tho fact that for ever,
victim Of cocrcion who formerly pouui
al n wirv p,nno for n couple OF hours d
aav there now are n dozen studen,s OF
various instruments and singers galore
ali nrac,icinp away FOR dear life. Should
spv Iipk bo missina In the contiuuou,
chain Of sound. Il "a filled nm by barre
oryans s,roct hands. wandering ballad
s,ngera solos ON tho whistle and otho,
norIna,s,ic ,ns,ruments.
Good vcrv good. no aoub,. Tho mn
steal crusader Looks ON the worl, ani
cong,atnlntos himself. There must h,
,roans 10 nil and Music reoniroa ma
chinorv and ,bo maehincrv for mnsic 4
Sa;n, 5,ought into n most forward stat,
If a,,,cienev INT thc mns,c Itself
,,..onao In 10 future AZ ,bot 10 come
Tn "anra,oJ comn,sor- ,n1 bis trouble
bay. ,ony neon a favorito theme for m,
&c. 80 hrwa,.,s,s W. ,ho ,oct ,bn
.a,n,cai,y renrc.on,ca IL NO jol,c and /,
.Sa rras.n, cnndi,,on ~ thjngs I, thrca,
sns - ras,',no rg,y nroror,inns -"
Mn,,n "a honic,in, snicidoI II do
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