El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-10

welcome, in 9-S time. the same with
light and more or less ecstatic breath
lngs up and down the gGmut till you
can't rest, or want 10 go fishing. Next,
Is ali astir in the village" to moter-
alto movement, common time, as Aunt
Polly ins Dolly Warden mother hubbard
ana furbelowed cap (Ooc Ward again
IS 'manthy! them griddle cakes IL b.
clean gone cold if you don't git an &C
ton GA your number 'leyeus and come
down stairs a whOOpin.' The piccOlO
responds for the country belle thus al
dressed, in graceful but lofty pitched
Torture trimmed with slurred trills
in siXteenths, That's right Ma: wake
for m to be queen OF the May mother,
on that I'II bet the beer"
A rallentando illustrative OF
S'manthy's pikin' down stairs to the
breakfast table in staccato thirty-sec-
Ond cadenzas, Is detailed by an allegro
con spirito in three sharps, Us time.
Occasionally during the hum BILE repist
the village belle is heard n prestiss mo
phrase through the Z flat cornet,
More hash mother. only leave out
the army buttons pray, for I'm to BE-
, queen OF the May mother, for I'm to
be queen of the May" The scene
| closes with d ralleUte ndO alternating
with tempo for ten bars, describing
the children packing off first to school
and to the May grounds afterwards.
"As this CRITICAL juncture' an a.
legretto mar CATO ia ~ time desert bes
the village blacksmith shop-froDtipg
on the green OF course, with a very
FESTIVE mule objecting TO be-
| ing shod. The comments of
the blacksmith as that mule describes
several concentric circles in Its re-
monstrances, are neatly phrased in
graduated series of tempOs winding up
| with a con fuego in about fourteen
''fortes" by the entire Instrumentation.
Next, a lento movement proceeding an
andante gracioso mar.s the advent of
S'mantby, the village belle, to the
May ground on. the grassy lea' as
Queen of the May, an oboe solo meas
uring her footsteps, followed by
several cadenZaS brilliantes. An al
legrO con brio Introduces the May Pole
Dance in moderate forte, the melody
| being carried by the baritone and then
oy the joyous cornets in p time, most
ly in Gig chs and sixteenths. After fifty
seven bars of all this business, every
body sits down to rest in larg hettO
movement, while the village choir
gives, in best bib aud tucker, chant
10 antante sOstenutO.
The scene changes again. 1t is night,
ana the comets In moderate
graziOso followed by the clarnets in g.
5 time, depict a lovers serenade in.tbe
bright moonlight. A cAdanza ad libi-
| tum by the first horn and an ad oscu-
landum also ad libitum-very much so
by the lovers, is followed by q cataract
en- miniature of dish water on the
heads OF all concerned from neigh
boring second story window. This is
detailed by a strongly staccatoed Giro
matte scale by the oboe, piccoo, Z
fiat corpet and soprano saXuphone
in constantly varying time,
followed by general scrau-
BILE from the entire band
as best Illustrating ''the cries of the
wouudeo.' shouts of defancer' and
so forth, but especially the land so
forth" Finally there is an ALLEGRO
vivace in 6-o time as the parish beadle
hales the offe nder before the village
justice who promptly mulcts the entire
outfit, IL ,cent sp5c ators and all, six
pence fine and. fourteen shilling cost
each.
The musical story ends 10 prolopg ed
chords from the entire band, in which
every body bids every body else good
night, and MANY returns of the happy
OCCASION" or words to that fleet.