Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-14
Music Was the
 Clubs Subject
CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST
 POTENT CHILD OF ART.
Essay Prepared and Read by Mrs. E. A. FoIsont-One of the Most Ably Prepared Papers of the Season at the Ci.b.

Music has been rightly termed the most potent child Of art, irasmuch as it is universally conceded to be the language Of all nations and tribes; CT, to put it into more poetic form, Music
 is the true. universal language" It is understood everywhere and by every one that has soul. And then Lobe gives us another beautiful definition when he says that music is the art of pleasing the ear, touching the heart exciting the intellect to agreeable ac- tiyity, and enliveniag the imagination with variety Of ideas.
 To what. through the ages. are we most indebted to music in art? Ans as we look back to the earliest ages, when 1t may have been a song of tri- umph. or a cry of affection that hcd been thiers to bear, what was there to express the outburss of sentiment that filled the very soul. but the songs they sang, that were the factors that gave expression to the most direct and pot ent influences Of their lives and pent up feelings.
 IL is hard for us, n these days of Ft condition of affairs as existed during the early development of music I al Jude to the slow progress it made un- der the Romans, owing to the cppo- sition of the priests. But Credit to whom credit it due" it is to these priests that We are indebted fer the
 first onward movement. as Bishop Ambrose in the fourth century adopt ed four of the Greek scales, and Pope Gregory four more in the sixth cen tury. Pope Gregory also collected all of the best church tunes of his time. and had them bound together and at tached to the Altar of St. Peters in Rome. by gold chain. The beck is said to have served a thousand years or more, and composers coDied their tunes from il instead of originating ne wones.
 Musical histor--- is divided into three great periods; the first, or mcnophcnic period, when melody alone was used either in unison or in octaves; the second. or polyphonic period. when two melodies were sung together. the resulting harmonies Cor dissonances I feel safe in adcing.) being merely ac- cidental; the third, and greatest peri- cd, caled the harmonic, which prac- tically fought it way to recognition. despite great oUosition. To this De-i0i We are indebted for the grand har- monies of today.
 In speaking of the music cf toGev an amusing little story is told Of Paderewski, who has or had friend who was a great admirer of M~Zar' and the old maSters, almost to the ex- clusion of all others. T. happened that one day this friend in er'opizi-g b's ideals, made the assertion that fhare was no music of to5ay that could com pare with their music, in any way.
 Some days afteTward. as they hon penei together again, P'derewski suddenly arose, walked to the niano and sat down, saving he bad o7Iv TO gently come across composition Of Mozart's. which ha6 just core to lisht and he was anxious that bis frie71 should hear 1t, as he was such de- voted admirer of Mozart. ue in mediately proceeded to play tho c- nn- position through. and uDon h'e fin ishing his friend jumped up evcite6iv exclaiming, "Dow, am no r'oht2 Where are any of the compositions of today that can eru'l that 'n "o"~'v and simplicity" Whereupon Padere- wski coolly thanked him. and ruietlv informed him that it wes h's lotest composition, to-wit. his Miuuet in q. Music as an art anNo'io- w .> < inner feelinps Of which the ot.n-. arts can but exhibit the effect The es- sence of music is ins"'-"t'or ~ovn- lation- You are carried forward smoothly, and take deiigt. in the