Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-11-14

choruses of many a great musical
master. l know the rasp of a saw
can b.sone part of lullaby or of d
martial march. Then why are not
these different sounds at all times
pleasing to my carr
In order to answer the questions !
made a study of the laws of musical
sound Dudley Buck. the great Ameri-
can composer. taught me that sweet
music was merely a succession of COM
binations of sound arranged with such
connection and mutual relations as TO
express to the ear some distinct form
or train of thought and awaken GER
tain corresponding emotions" He told
me that music is thought expressed
in sound, even as a great painting is
thought expressed in color. A tumble
of colors is a daub, not a picture 4
riot Of sounds, prOmiscuOusly pushing
and jOstling each other, even as the
stronger limbed members of a STAN
peding mob knock down and trample
upon the weaker, is merely a collection
of discOrds. 1t is only when multi
tudes of sounds are marshaled to-
gether in harmonious unity that we
have music. So when / began to know
what true music meant then l said to
myself: Yes, yes; | now know what
Ralph Waldo Urine means when he
speaks of man being IN tune with the
infinite. Man in himself may be so
distracted by sin as to be like a dis
cord in music. His voice in nature
may be SO diScordant by reason of his
corrupt condition as to rend the ear
as does the shrill cry of the vender OH
the street But when his nature is
redeemed his voice falls into its right
place in the song of creation and of
Moses and the lamb and becomes har-
monious and meIodious. By the sweet
voices of the woods blending in per
petual harmonies can you not catch
the meaning of my text when King
Solomon declares God hath made and
will continue to make, according to the
laws of music, everything beautiful
in it's timer"
Thought Expressed In Sound.
The symmetries of straight lines and
curves in sculpture and architecture
also form analOgies for mans spiritual
beauty. Wandering among the famous
buildings of Europe, find that, archi-
tecturally, a great building has SYM
metrical unity, just as perfect statue
is chiseled after the physical forma-
lions of a perfect man. Many years
ago there was exhumed from the
buried ruins of old Rome a marble
leg, broken from off one of the statues
of old. That broken fragment is still
preserved in the Vatican. Michael An
gelo, as a sculptor, used to study that
leg by the day, the week, the month
and the year, because" said the great
Italian master, Il consider that piece
of stone the most perfect formation Of
physical anatomy ever carved by the
chisel of man" So symmetrically per-
feet may the lines and the curves of
great group of statuary be that
| when you look at some of the best eX-
amples of sculpture in the Louvre, the
| Vatican or the British museum the
| figures almost seem as though their
lungs are breathing and their lips are
ready to speak.
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in true sculpture are also found to eX-
list in true architecture. A great build
er like Christopher Wren did not start
in to erect ST. PauPs cathedral at hap
hazard. Every part of the walls, the
dome and the capstone were carefully
and tremendously designed and prop
erly proportional before one spadeful
| Of dirt was dug out of the heart Of
mother earth to eXcavate the cellars of
London's architectural pride. And the
wonderful part of the masterfully de-
signed buildings of Europe is how de-
ceptive they are as to their size when
first seen by the human eye. When
one sees the dome Of st. Peters at
Rome lifting itself toward the skies, or
the spires Of the Cologne cathedral
like the uplifted forefnger Of an ora
| tor pointing heavenward, or the roof
of the Milan cathedral peopled with
myriads of saints and apostles carved
in stone, the lengths and the breadths
and the heights of those structures
rarely impress the tourist at first
Why? Because all are in perfect sym
metrical proportion. A truly great
building is ''multitudes of stones ar
ranged in unity It is thought ex-
pressed in stone as a painting is
Thought expressed in colOrs, or as mu-
SIC Is thought expressed in sound.
Now, as true architecture is beautiful
tnousht expressed in the curves and
lines OF the roof and the walls and the
foundation stones of building
would go one step further in nv sinh.
, ject l would say to the designers Of
the great Episcopalian cathedral now
} being built in New York CITY: ooh
: architects, of what material are Won
building these walls? Where are tn he
: found the mighty beams to hold M
yonder roof?' Then these architects
take me down into the quarries and
amid the dust and the dirt l see the
mighty rocks being hewed out Then
!. they take me to the foundries where
the steel beams are being nodded