New-York tribune., 1901-08-11

! what may rGpuiarly b. called 0ilnut1rrc music
IA period in which England led ths world The
+ pieces supposed by the editors. J. Fuller
Maitland and Va Barclay squire To have been
copied ly one Francis Tregian some time be-
tween 1GfS and 1Gl? while ne was an inmate
. of the Fleet prison. 10 which he had baen COM
mttei for recUsancy. He was a PapIst. Ike his
father. Cornish gentleman who sat In prison
twenty -four years because of his religion. The
history o. the manuscript is largely eoljecturaI.
however. ana 1t does not appear how the
younger Trceian who died in lGl9 could copy
mLsi, composed in 1870. a specimen page is
repre.ia,-d herewith in fac-simile. It is from
. a fantasia by John Munday, which derives ad-
ditional interest from the fact that il
/ an pie of descriptive music Its sections,
/ rhy hythmicauy varied and dramatically uncon-
nected, bear the Inscriptions Fine Weather.
! lightning. Thunder three times, finally
there comes a slow conclusion marked A Clear
! Day
Let Us look al another Of Shakespeare pc
cuIiarly pregnant aIlusions. II is in the scene
of the orgy in Twelfth Night" Act II. Scene ;.
| Sir Toby and Sir Andrew are registering and
have had two songs from the clown who has
joined them. Then Toby
But shall max the weikin dance indeed
Shall rouse the night owl in q eaten that VIII
draw three souls out OF one weaver shall W. do
| that2
| After a lot Of pInning they fall to it and like
! tinkers in a tavern they sing a catch, Hold
thy peace thou knave.' To get al the meaning
Of Sir Toby's reference the weaver We must
| look further In Henry " Part 1, Act H.
| Scene T. FaIstan deplores the degeneracy of the
times;
There live hire good men m 4nh2nEed n EiS ,i6
land and on o. mem mem - rIi i"I iiI' -, would
were weaver 1 could sing psalms or any SthnE-
Why this allusion TO psalm singing in con
J nection with the weaver obviously because
the most persistent psalm singers 90 the day
/ were the Lolards uhey "loIed' psalnsl- Flem-
ism Protestants who. fleeing from persecution IN
their own country. vent 70 Ensland and became
( voouen manufacturers When IN The Merry
I Wives OF Windsor" Shakespeare illustrates the
! inconsistency between Faistan's prorestations
and conduct by having MIS- Ford say that they
Ola no more adhere and keep place together
than the hundredth psalm to tn tune 81 Green
Sleeves h. undoubtedly refers 70 th- custom
popular among the nou'onf rn.st~ "t mat day
.f utilizing popular tunes FOR religious songs
Il p. vt have ar Illustration ~ The p"rSlSt~ney
%. hluaa nature To sing All people that on
earth go. dwell" .t... Co. tH- tIH- ~ Green
Se,t~s the most popular song - ts day. is
20 do uo more and mo- Jess than some religious
bodies DO to-day when they adapt u-si. hall
tunes to their supposedly religious d.ttIes.
Shakespeare -rid-cJly had no ,tup@thy with
This sort of thin~ nor with Jh- hy ymual muse
ot m, Par.taus Among the sh-rpsaearers ~
~. clowns sister IN a Winters Tal-' four
and twenty oc them three song ,i.
glsesingerst al" there was one Puritan VINO
would psalms 10 hornpipes.
Many another hint that the people of shake
spearr- time felt and acted like those OF our
7wn nc deduccd from his musical illusions.
and. indeed. II is more profitable 70 our az pre-
siation Of the poet study musical allu-
! sions IN order 10 learn from them how he
and the people are the life OF the twentieth
century than tc build UP notion of the musical
Uractice Of his time concerning the artistic
side of that practice there are no troublesome
. questions II was the period az the perfection
Of vocal music of the polyphonic school and OF
the breaking away from old Journalism for the
SAKE of dramatic expression. rXempltied in The
/ invention OF the Italian opera. From scientific
point 90 view IL the brilliant period
in English musical history, but Shakespeare has
. not preserved any tribute to tn polite art Of
his day comparable with that which he gives 70
the popular art in the introduction of illusions
TO the songs and ballads of his time IN his
dramas the songs and ballads themselves
Mr. Elson makes ingenious point against the
foolish Baconian theory 10y showing the differ
ence between the stin friEidlty Of the philoso-
piers discussion of music and n. puIsating
warmth Of IN. poets illusions In Bacon We
may read about the structure and capacity of
SON ,ffb no.