Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-04-24
The Marietta Orchestra Con-
cert.

The second concert of this organiza-
tion is announced for Thursday next,
April 26. With it new era dawns up
on the music lovers of Marietta. The
program besides some miscellaneous
numbers, offers an overture by Beeth-
oven and an entire symphony by Hay
dn. This is an undertaking that has
never before been attempted in Mari
eta, and by way of introduction it will
be well to call attention to the differ
ent forms and objects of music.
First of all we have the dance music
and the march. Both of them are in
tended to regulate the steps of the
dancer and the soldier, and so long as
the time is well marked we have ev-
erything that can be expected. The
music offers wide field for striking
melodies and beautiful harmonies. OF
the different dances, Strauss has mo-
nopolized the waltz, and by composing
chain OF them, adding thereto an in
production and finale he has lifted the
waltz from the mire in which it grow
eled for many years. The minuet al
so has been emancipated from the
mere dance and it's form has found its
way into the classic symphonies of
Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven. Occas-
ionally we find the march invested
with the same dignity, when Beethov-
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Erolca, or Chopin gives us the Fun
eral March"
Leaving dances and marches. we ar
rive at the so-called Programme
Music" 1t is evident that when the
composer stoops to such music he de-
grades his art, although even Beeth-
oven in his Pastoral Symphony, gives
us a tone-pictura in which thunder and
lightning is made musical and
cuckoo and nightingale furnish
their mite to present landscape
painted by tones. 1t is only the halo
which Beethoven has thrown around
it which make sthis sin pardonable.
Since We intend 20 deal only with or
chestral music, we shall pass over the
romantic school in which we include
nocturnos, lullabys, serenades, etc and
pass at once to the crowning feature
of orchestral music
THE SYMPHONY.
A quaint Vienna musician said once
M laiA ha
Mozart had built the edifice and
Beethoven had added a spire TO it,
and,' he goes on TO say, whoever
goes beyond that will break his neck"
We are fortunate in having the op-
portunity of hearing" the foundation
hoping in future to "hear" the edifice
and its spire.
But we must be prepared for this
kind of music 1t appeals TO the intel
lect as well as to the senses. We
must watch for the theme, which is the
few simple notes this edifice is raised;
here carried by the violins, there by
the flutes; here in one key, there in
another; here supported by simple
accompaniment there embellished by
all the wealth of cOunterDoint; here
representing peace, there the turmoil
OF battle. In short 1t is a picture OF
life with all its ups and downs, a bat
tie of the elements which at last unite
into perfect whole.
The Symphony generally consists
of four movements: The Allegro, the
Adagio the Scherzo and the Finale,
each movement having its own
peculiar form and being joined by the
relation of the keys in which they
are placed.
To continue this subject would lay us
open to the charge of pedantry and we
shall therefore conclude by stating
that the entire programme eylnces the
desire OF the Marietta orchestra to
rouse the public from the musical
lethargy into which Two-steps and |
Ragtlme have thrown 1t. II. S. g.