New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-26
MUSICAL COMMENTS.
OUR WEEKLY WAR soNG-MUsIC FOR
COLONEL HOPKINS'S BALLAD-MU
SIC AT THE TEACHERS CON
VENTION-NEW PUB

LEGATIONS.

The tune to which Colonel Hopkinss Ballad Of
Santiago has been set dates back to the Common
wealth. and lived uOwn through the eighteenth CEN
fury in a number of the ballad operas which were
much admired after The Beggar's Opera" had
pointed the way Its great popularity Is evidenced
by the fact that Chappe describes thirteen songs
and ballads which written to be sung to the
tune. and adds that 1t would be no difficult TASK
to add fifty TO the list. II was printed IN
The Dancing Master in 1885. but Is probably at
least fifty years older II is sometimes referred 10
as the tune OF forty-one." DIIrfey. who wrote
song the for his play The Royalist caiis
It IAN old ballad tune Of forty-one. In his song
he used several stanzas from the original song,
Hey then. up go We" which, as Chappel says
dos, rihcs with some humor the taste of the Pur-
tans" and might pass for a Puritan song II II
were not contained in The Shepherds Oracies ny
Francis Quarles. 1916. Quarles was cuppearer 10
Elizabeth queen 0 Sarreary to Archbishop
Usher rmate of lreand anG ehT anG FSe shep-
herds Oracles' were a posthumOus publication
The last line varies in the old songs written to the
bovs up 90 We Another refrain identified with
tune was The clean contTary way: orTn,on Of
the German nichtO is used in the slang TI eHe
American o Sr tSd ady MsTquess printed in the
Roxburghe collection. which begins:
The lady marques and ner gang
Are most in favor seen.
with coach and on her to tend'
AS If she were queen c,r,s
D For - ali her fine array:
Her honor reaches TO the skies
But the clean contrary way
II required only the session OF the M u"s A.
convention OF the Music Teachers >"''
ISOLATION TO show that in every respect Wv, os
/ cialv IN the concert features. the assoc'a'o"
benefited by the change in metho's Suss' =,
pros,der. Greene Last year there were SCOUTS
meetings rectals and exhibitions gong VI 49,.
taneously IN various parts Of the lhouS', ~ ~,
o,d q r, stlcss crowd moving from one '"'"N -
o,ber Noise narred every thing. Ih's ye'i ~"
/ .,o,s ,,oot,rrs are held in the Colonial Room Vi
7 49, waldorf storia and all me conferences N
ccrts and recitas in the ballroom. hN'eP' '
deliberations of that new ana uhA"'"'' , a.
tho Roard Of Delegates, only ono thl"t a. "
4 undertaken and. though there Is prH'uc"' f,,
rinuous ression OF the convention ever N"' ,-N,
~ ,iocL Z, the morning until 10 o'clock a, "s'''
] there e no interruption or cisturpahc" VI 49,
/ coedincs no tangling Of rival p'ahoio'''' j."
,r- about Of curiosity hunters. 10 eNII"''""
4 arohi,ious musical small fry, and much 'eSS u'
! ne, al OF the self adyertising when mas 80 ,
- 90 i,,q hurt the dignity OF the assoCld''o"'
/ The musical affairs though they ca" 9'' -.
said 10 have appealed very po""rlu'I' w. =,
/ ,opolitan public coming as theE vi" y, w., A,.o
/ ,,e,ther after that public had been surie''e"' %
,ot been OF nrst-cass importance 10 man! %
,.,,ors T,hev began on Thursday WIN MI nv"
derson's talk on the instruments OF aio me-
/ orchestra which with the weH-choSe' '''' go,
/ Waved by n band under the direcuon u
! ursrro proved 10 be entertaining a. il ""' "
! ''" '. uos an obiect-lesson which went
,,o - MANY a student. on the same a''eri"'"
,t,~s Non,eoore sang "Balladc Of the song 81 wv
cr.ns COMPOSED by Henry Holden l.S ,,sto(,iiiy
.'io gr,,,.d In the evening Giuseppe feriatH, IA
italian pianist. pupil OF SHain'S am playcd toe
lns We VI. OWN c5mpos,ion. and there va tE2tnCr
I of the many lta mans In a Persian Car
Den on Friday afternoon 'heTe was a when
SONGS j., Toy Ina, in mis- department ne nauve
composer is fully the equa ol miSS,nd were Arthur
Wa ot' CHARLES f. Hawlcy. Ferdinand IlunkTf t
qny e1 gc Fo9 10 Ms A% Grae Grceoy
ms. Of Richard N%'son, CLAYTON join. I'D
Al OF IIee 1}a-,ic,. The evening wa dev 10 10
an orchestral concert wn nes ma" Two OK when we're
ton OF ne nnd are discussed elsewhere IN hs
Journal 4, ms 0GnSeTi bv " Pr5fe W oiao "
Parker o. Yale JniySrs'1yR o fnq count Of Paris
an III Sie non which had already had h'aflts y -
KEN is William II sheTTood pl9 ',S dsn E1n
ASH briliiancy and power ana me scrncr de-
t@s,c and greaer affection seemed to US h1 4.
the work invites consia.rnE hy i c'nndncted per
by the orchestra Of ,hrec Of ~. An@T
can dances op 49, whc rne n9V cxempfy laudable,
bv: not wholly successful atiempt 20 r, nir, The
other number Of the prQsra mmc WI Iio,rcr Bart
FOR violin solo and Orchestra ~ ldpt Separate
lett oI Ih'S - 80 plaved hy Hubert Arnold N
Iniltsi%%i ,,as far from fauless. frequently I.s,
W. irde.d because Of bad ~ tonhi4 -,
r,vs. Mr. Arnold be thanked l1f IN -. an =
care which he gave the WORK OF MS
friend
The idea OF n concerto. by which term MI i
,,,,e cornnos,tion was defined on the programme
- ,co~colv borne out by the WORK 'o"0''
,,ooe sc the English equivalent OF the "efnNii
,.c,zorte,uck" which hns been much n''o''
,co yeher's familiar pianoforte example "o"''
80 b.an a little nearer tho marx a''Hous"
.toLior for form might even then nave lo"''" .o
,- rro.ost Neither in number nor variety III" Wv
! o-L sa,sfv the conception OF WORK III 'ne gym
| ~. vet for all that II gave genuine PieuS"'e
,.n.o VIM heard II. partly because OF inc '"e'" "
,' ,doas and workmanship and partly because 0
c,o,eancse and dircctncss. As Fl matter ="
.. d, Go I'm three parts. two aleGros ana an ma
| l,o,o andante with an Introduction 10 inc '''''
,. ,,,t this part having for IT'S theme 'h' INV
-, NTH had served as the pTinciIal sNpJect .
, 49,, cs, mar, the final impression WAS ha' OF 81
W. ,od erq, movement in somewhat free form
,,a,ce q, the fhcmatic material cmp'oY'" W.
80. -, once how the natural was the ldea u
! .,.,,o ,oovenen, instead Of that OF comiafe'
,nCycmcnts Here IL the principal SUBJECT u wv
, ,,,l o,oning movement and the finale
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