The Monitor-register. [volume] (Woodstown, Salem Co., N.J.) 1892-1972, 1896-11-06

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the woodlark, and the canary. and the
plover sometimes sing SO sweetly that
their notes have been written ont in
musical notation, and it is found that
the cuckoo sings in the key of d, and
that the cormorant is basso in the
winged choir, yet sportsman's gun and
the autumnal blast often leave them
ruff1ed and bleeding or dead in meadow
or forest. Paul was right, for the groan
/ IN nature browns out the prima tlonnas
! of the sky.
Iartlnl, the great musical composer
dreamed one night that he made a con-
tract with satan, the latter to be ever
In the composer service. But one night
he handed to satan violin, on which
Dlabolus played such sweet music that
the composer was awakened by the emo
ton and tried to reproduce the sounds.
and therefrom was written Tartini's
most famous piece, 1.-THE DEVILS So
nata, dream ingenious, but faulty. for
all melody descends from heaven, and
only dlscords ascend from hell. All
hatreds, feuds, controversies, backbit-
lngs and revenges are the DEVILS sonata,
are diabolic fugue, are demoniac phan-
tasy, are grand march or doom, are al
| legro of perdition.
The Ear of Bach.
But if in this world things in general
are out of tune to our frail ear. how
much more so to beings angelic and de-
f, lfic! 1t takes skilled artist to fully ap-
preciate disagreement of sound. Many
have no capacity to detect defect of
musical execution, and, though there
were in one bar as many offenses against
harmony as could crowd in between the
| lower F of the bass and the higher G of
the soprano, it would give them no dis
comfort, while on the forehead of the
| educated artist beads of perspiration
would stand out as result of the har-
rowing dissonance. While an amateur
was performing on piano and had just
struck the wrong chord, John Sebastian
Bach, the immortal composer, entered
the room, and the amateur rose in en-
barrassment, and Bach rushed past the
host, who stepped forward to greet him,
and, before the keyboard had stopped
vibrating, put his adroit hand upon the
/ keys and changed the painful inharmony
| into glorious cadence. Then Bach turned
and gave SALVATION to the host
But the worst of all discord is moral
discord. If society and the world are
painfully discordant to imperfect man,
what must they be to perfect God!
People try to define what sin is. 1t seems
to me that sin is getting out of harmony
with God, disagreement with his holt
ness, with his purity, with his love, with
his commands, our will clashing with
his will, the finite dashing against the in
finite, the frail against the puissant, the
created against the creator If a thousand
musicians, with flute and cornet-a-pis-
ton and trumpet and violoncello, the
hautboy and trombone and all the wind
and stringed instruments that every
gathered in Dusseldorf jubilee, should
resolve that they would play out of
tune and put concord to the rack and
make the place wild with shrieking and
grating and rasping sounds, they could
not make such pandemonium as that
|
listens to the play of its thoughts, pas
sions and emotion-discord, lifelong
discord, maddening discord
The world pays more for discord than
! it does for consonance. High prices have
been paid for music. One man gave
1926 to hear the Swedish songstress in
New York, and another 1925 to hear
| her in Boston, and another $3.50 to hear
her in Providence Fabulous prices have
been paid for sweet sounds, but far
more has been paid for discord.s The
Crimean war cost $1,700, 900, 600, and
the American civil war SO, 500, 600, 900,
and the war debts of professed Christian
nations are about $15, 900, 900, 900. The
world pays for this red ticket which
admits it to the saturnalia of broken
bones and death agonies and destroyed
cities and plowed graves and crushed
hearts, any amount of money satan
asks. Discord! Discord!
Will Be Put In Turns e
But have to tell you that 4l6ra
| that the morning stars sang togbfd9k a.
the laying of the world cornerston64&
to resound again. Mozart's GREATEST
I overture was composed one night when
he was several times overpowered with
Sleep and artists say they can tell the
places in the music where he was fall-
ing asleep and the places where he awaks3
ened. So the overture of the morning
stars spoken of in my text has boeu.
asleep, but it will awaken and be more
grandly rendered by the evening stars
of the worlds existence than by the
morning stars, and the vespers will b&
sweeter than the mathis. The work a.
all good men and women and OF an'
good churches and all reform assocl8<
lions help to bring the race back to. tl1e
| original harmony. The rebel
| to be attuned, social life to be attuneqx
commercial ethics to be attuned, inter-
nationality to be attuned, hemispheres
to be attuned
In olden times the choristers had
tuning fork with two prongs, and they
would strike it Oh the back of pew or
music rack and put it to the ear and
.hen start the tune, and all the other
voices would join. In modern orchestra
the leader has complete instruments
rightly attuned, and he sounds that, and
all the other performers tune the keys.
of their instruments to make them cor
respond aud draw the bow over the
| string and listen and sound it over
again until all the keys are screwed to
concert pitch and the discords melt into
one great symphony, and the curtain
hoists, and the baton taps and audiences
/ are raptured with Schumann's Para
disc and the Peril or Rossini's "Stabat
| Mater'' or Bach's "Magnificat' i'll D..
Now, our world can never be attuned
by an imperfect instrument. Even a
Cremona would not do. Heaven has
ordained the only instrument, and it is
made out of the wood Of the cross, and
the voices that accompany it are inn
ported voices, cantatrices OF the first
Christmas night, when heaven serenad-
ed the earth with Glory to God in the
highest, and on earth peace, good will
to men. Lest we start too far off and
get lost in generalities, we had better
begin with ourselves, get our own hearts
and lives in harmony with the eternal
Christ Oh, for his Almighty Spirit to
attune us, to chord our will with his
will, to moduIate our life with his life,
i and bring us into unison with all that
i is pure and self sacrificing and heavenly
The strings of our nature are all broken
and twisted, and the bow is SO slack it
cannot evoke anything melliauous. The
instrument made for heaven to play on
has been roughly twanged and struck by
influences worldly and 1demoniac. o
master hand of Christ, restore this split
and fractured and despoiled and I'M
| ,t,.,,,,e, ,,.,tr,.e ,,ntiI.ytirst il shall wall