New-York tribune., 1901-03-10
MUSICAL NOTES.

MUSICAL NOTES.
CALENDAR AND OPERA LIST FOR THF
WEEK - SOME INTERESTING PRO-
GRAMMES-AN OLD ENGLISH ROUND
MR.. FRANKo's ARCHAIC CONCERTS
AMERICAN PIANOS FOR EXPORT
NOTES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
sunday-carnegie Hall, s15 p m, concert Of the
dipsie Philhsrmonic orehestra dS non
uiar prices; National Arts Club $50 p m: con
old First Church. ?, M special service sull5o IL
vans Prodigal Som; An Saints Church, [laa .:Se
D. m, Lenten service Rossini ''Stabat Mater
Neutrality-suspicious. Opera House. s p. m, opera
in italian. LES Hueguenots": Carnegie Han,
German Ger nj lpangeiicai l1SiGisi ft Church Brooyn sI5
m. free organ recital by Hugo Troetschel
Of oe1a as F2asg Rbengod Lyceem
Theatre, p M. concert of the American Or
kBR 3 IFeras as s5 nh
s4Ds as ooaiT a RrV2ss m s6ula chaTcR Rt s as
free organ recital by Walter C Gale: No SOS
Peiton: it5r:' Knabe Hall recital by Josef Weiss,
wednesday-Metropolitan Opera H9gse 1tS S,I ?; m;
e'Fa1 Ho1v oP% PPomn,nion 4.s0 on M free organ re-
eai te f18 by charies Heinroth association Hail
By Tqdy fSe Rnsse s z Quartet % sonSfR of Boston 81
rhursday-Carnegie Hall. $50 p. m. concert Of the
Ia - m. extra performance of Die Walkire";
Fine Arts Building $50 p m, concert of cham
can Institute Of Applied Music. SIS p. m, lect-
ure by D. Ffrangcon Davies No. Is East rhirty-
sixth-st-, $50 p. m. violoncelo recital by Anton
Hegner: church OF the Divine Paternity. AIS
o. m free organ recital by J. Warren Andrews.
F11day-Metropolitan Opera House. p m. French
opera, .'L'Africaine'': han of Cooper Union, SIS
p. m. Peoples Symphony concert
saturday-Metropolitan Opera House. ?. m, Ital-
ian 9PeTa MenslssoSn Hail H. sis 5ai5'l p m con
TfrT INV Ia 6N-fg
The week before us is one Of wonderful offerings.
both IN quantity and quality but no other single
entertainment in it promises such varied and ex
ouisite delights the concert Of the Musical Art
Society on Thursday evening. Mr.. Damrosch has
prepared embarrassment Of riches With the
socety's professional choir Of fifty voices he has
associated the Peoples Choral Union with its hun
dreds the surpiced choir of ST. James's Church
and orchestra Of stringed instruments The
purpose this extraordinary aggregation is TO give
peculiar effectiveness TO three Of the numbers in
the scheme of music These are a motet. 'Miserere
mel. Deus" by Josqun des Pres, a medieval
German Easter song arranged by Martin Pludde-
mann and Bach's motet, BE Not Afraid" The
programme is as follows:
N''''''e 'le' GMotet for fve voicesJ
Arranged by Pladdemann
'' 'F'H 'Ss55as SsioSef for five voicesJ
S5Ser;{s IRON Deepest Woe ;i. az T5ss
tc ChoraIe. Thee With Tender Care I'll Cherish"
Concerto crosse IN SrffnSe5 = orchestra
Round, Summer Is a-coHing "a .,,-....s .-.,,-,.
G @ Ta5 Amis Ss fae g dt Mule Fse xaet 6oln:u5 65th
.-Tq I've part songs:
qs .Frifiinssasnung niasaslssa Mendeiss0hn
The Oldest composer represented in this list is
one whose name is not known-the author Of the
famous old rota, round, upon which England
ain m he
the country which artistic counterpoint had its
origin This composition was brought into the his
tory Of music by Mr.. Wanley, learned antiquary
and musician who a description of it in
catalogue Of the Harleian manuscripts. IN l70e.
while he was librarian TO the Earl Of Oxford. The
manuscript is preserved in vol 97S Of the Harleian
collection in the British Museum. and has been the
subject Of interesting chapter OF musical his
tory since the first modern histories were written
Hawkins. Burney and F'orkel, among the old musi-
cal historians specuated extensively about the
OF the manuscript. did Ritson and others who
interested in the literary questions involved
in it. "sumer is icumen in" being the Oldest
popular song completely preserved in writing. The
musical historians talked about the fourteenth
and fifteenth century. in which the manuscript
written because they We're afraid date il earlier
than the hitherto accepted date Of the first speci
mems Of artistic counterpoint. Ritson had no such
scruples and placed il early in the thirteenth
tury on the evidence Of the handwriting alone.
Finally the admirable William Chappeu and
the year OF the writing about 1926 the place
the Abbey of Reading, and the scribe monk called
John OF Fornsete The value Of his discoveries TO
the history music lies in the fact that they
the date Of the invention of artistic counterpont
(as exemplhed in the round endless canon)
back a century and a half, and give the honor Of
the invention, far single manuscript can
prove it, 10 the English instead of the Flemish
school
The old manuscript was reproduced in fac-simile