Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-04-28

three layers. In that ear musical stan
lines, spaces, bar and rest, A bridge
leading from the outside natural world
to the inside spiritual world; we see
ing the abutmeut at this end Of the
bridge, but the fog of an unified mys,
tery hiding the abdtmeut on the other
end of the bridge. Whispering gallery
of the soul. The human voice is Gods
eulogy the ear. That voice capable OF
producing II, 500, ls6, o44,4l5 sounds, and
all that variety made, not for the re-
galement of beast or bird, bat for the
human ear.
About Is years ago, in Venice, lay
down in death one whom many con-
sidercd the greatest musical composer
of the century, Struggling on up from
six years OF age when he was left faith
erless, Wagner rose through the oblo-
guy of the world, and Outlines all ma
tions seemingly against him, until he
gained the favor of u king, and won
the enthusiasm of the opera houses of
Europe and America. Struggling all
the way on to 20 years OF age, to con-
Quer the worlds ear. In that same at
tempt to master the human car and
gain supremacy over this gate of the
immortal soul, great battles were
fought by Mozart, Gluck and Weber,
and by Beethoven and Meyerbeer, by
Rossini and by all the roll of German
and Italian aud French composers,
some of them in the battle leaving
their blood on the keynotes and the
musical scores. Great battle fought
for the ear--fought with baton, with
organ-pipe, with trumpet, with cor
net-a-piston, with all ivory and brazsn
and silver and golden weapons of tn"
orchestra; royal theater and cathedral
and academy of music the fortresses
for the contest for the ear. England
and Egypt fought for the supremacy of
the Suez canal, and the Spartans and
the Persians fought for the dcfile of
Thermopylae; but the musicians of all
ages have fought for the mastery of the
auditory canal and the detile of the i'm
mortal soul and the Thermopylae of
struggling cadences.
For the conquest Of the ear Haydn
struggled on up from the garnet where
he had neither fire nor food, on and on
until under the too great nervous strain
of hearing his own grafton of the
Creation" performed, he was carried
out to die, but leaving as his legacy to
the world lis symphonies, 1913 pieces
for the baritone, is masses, 5 orato-
rios, AZ German and Italian songs, 80
canons, 365 English and Scotch songs
with accompaniment, and 1886 pages
of librctti. All that to capture the
gate of the body that swings in from
the tympanum to the "snail shell" ly-
ing on the beach of the ocean of the
immortal soul.
To conquer the ear, Handel strug-
gled on from the time when his father
would not let him go to school lest he
learn hegamut and become a musician,
and from the time when he was allowed
in the organ loft just to play after the
audience had left, to the time when he
left to all nations his unparalleled ora
torios of Esther" Deborah, "Samp-
SON" "Jephthah, Judas Maccabeus, =
Israel in Egypt" and the Messiah, "
the soul of the great German composer
still weeping in the Dead March of our
great obscquies and triumphing in the
raptures of every Easter morn.
To conquerer the ear and take this
gate of the immortal soul, Schubert
composed his great "Serenade, writ
ing the slaves of the music on the bill
of fare in a restaurant, and went on
until he could leave as legacy to the
world over 900 magnificent compost
tions in music TO conquer the ear
and take this gate of the souls castle
Mozart struggled on through poverty
until he came to a pauper's grave, and
one chilly, wet afternoon the body of
him who gave to the world the Re-
QUEEN and the "G-minor Symphony"
was crunched in on top of two other
paupers into grave which to this day
is epitaphless,
For the ear everything mcllihuous,
from the birth hour when our earth
was wrapped in swaddling clothes of
light and serenaded by other worlds,
from the time when Jubal thrummed
the first harp and pressed key of the
first organ, down to the music OF this
Sabbath day. Yea, for the ear the
coming overtures of Heaven, for what
ever other part of the body may be left
in the dust, the ear, we know, is to
come to celestial life; otherwise, why
the "harpers harping with their harps?'
For the ear, carol Of lark, and whistle
of quail, the chirp of cricket, and dash
of cascade, and roar of tides oceanic,
and doxology of worshipful assem-
bly, and minstrelsy, cherubic, seraphic
and archangeiic. For the ear all Pam
dean pipes, all flutes, all clarinets, all
hautboys, all bassoons, all bells, and
all organs-Luzerene and Westminster
abbey, and Freyburg, and Berlin, and
all the organ pipes set across Christen.
dom, the great Giants Causeway for
the monarchs of music to pass over.
For the ear, all chimes, all ticklings OF
chronometers, all anthems, all dirges
all glees, all choruses, all lullabies, all
orchestration. Oh, the ear, God hon.
ored the ear, grooved with Divine
sculpture and poised with Divine
gracefulness and upholstered with
curtains of Divine embroidery