The herald., 1897-07-04
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Rhyme, melody and harmony are
the elements of musical form. They are
the material out of which it's highest or
ganizations, such as the sonata, are con-
structed. The difference is one o.
method. They are sensuous when they
are used as a painter might use the en-.
tire catalogue of colors to fashion a
kaleidoscope canvas. which should give
to the eye the same sort of delight thai
gas light gives to the vision Of babe
The painter would advance step wher
he combined his lines and his colors into
some recognizable form-say, tree or
rose. But he would not then produce 6
composition. That would come only In
work which combined several recogniz-
able forms, such as trees, roses, grass
sky and pehaps. human figure or two
in work with an evident design. So ir
music, rythm, harmony and melody
cease to be mere sensuous things when
they work together in a piece of con-
structive composition.
But the great mass of listeners to
music cry out: Away with these pc
dantic considerations! We do not ask
that music shall be architecture in
sounds. We do not desire that it shall
be burden of deep design. All we ask
is that 1t shall be beautiful!
"Oh, Beautiful! what things are done
in thy name! What is the Beautiful
The most eloquent and wise definition
is that of Kant, who said: The Beauti-
full Is that which, through the harmony
of it's form with the human faculty of
knowledge, awakens a disinterested,
universal and necessary satisfaction.
The conception of beauty belongs to
man alone Its primary demand is that
it shall be known by reason, not simply
by the ear, the eye, or the tongue. 1t
appeals to conception, not to sense.
Sense is merely the instrument by which
it is conveyed to the brain
Music is the one art without model.
1t has no prototype in nature. 1t is
wholly the creation of the human intel
lect Therefore, as the conception OF
beauty Is mans alone, does it not follow
that music, the creature of the mind
which conceives the beautiful, is the
purest form of beauty? Is it not the
highest product of imagination, and
hence closest to beauty in the abstract?
What, then, do people mean who tell
US that they care nothing about the in
tellectual qualities of music, by which
they mean its formal organization, as
long as it is beautiful? Those who speak
thus stultify themselves. They prove
that they do not know what either mu-
sic or beauty is. They all declare that
they love music so well that they do not
care to reason about it. Yet they actual
ly hold music but trifie higher than
caramels New York Times.
The concert to be given in Blanchard
fitzgerald hall Tuesday evening, the 9Th
inst, by Miss Alice Coleman, pianist,
assisted by Miss Anna Miller Wood,
contralto will introduce to the music
loving people of Los Angeles two tall
ented young ladies whose work is al
ready we'll and favorably known. Mr..
Edwin H. Clark, the violinist, is always
accorded warm recognition here, and
the concert promises to be one of espe-
cial interest.
The program Tuesday evening will be:
Piano, Rhapsody in E minor, Marga-
ret Ruthven Lang.
Songs-"On the Way to Kew" Foote
dedicated to Miss Wood; die Stille,"
Schumann; "Auf dem Meer" Franz;
80 Swallow Flying South" Foote.
Violin-"Concert de Caprice" Musin
Piano-Etude in D fiat, Liszt; minuet,
Mrs. H. H. A. Beach; etude in c sharp
minor, Chopin; waltz Moskowski.
Songs-"Loch Lomond," old Scotch
air, arranged by Arthur Foote; "a Red,
Red Rose" Giveg Henschel; Dear
Love When in Thine Arms" G. W.
Chadwick (from cycle Told in the
GateD; "Chanson, Ansienne," old
French, with violin obligato.
Piano-Polonaise, Nicode.
Mrs. Katherine Kimball Forest an
nounces an evening of music at Blan-
chard- Fitzgerald hall Tuesday evening
July 18th. Miss Forest will be assisted
by Mise Lucia Forest, harp; Miss Helen
Fuller, violin; Otto Wedemeyer baritone;
Miss Fuller at the piano. Miss Forests
delightful voice and refined art and
method are too well known here to need
more than mention. The Misses Full
ler's work with piano and violin
are also thoroughly and favorably
known, and as all these ladies
have just returned from a season in
New York, the probabilities are that
their past accomplishments will not be
greater than that of the present. Miss
Forests harp solos and Mr.. Wedemey-
er's voice will also do their part toward
making the evening one of rare enjoy
ment