New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-12

. YET SET their hearts an effort 20 stimulate
Il Eerhaps that is necessary: appreciation O.
lie Characteristic idioms which the songs and
o@hees OF the folk have contributed 70 artistic
- WI gro" steadily and healthy as popular
"eaiies OF the platitudes OF the comp 1sers
"-O' having nothing 10 say say II In the cd old
manner OF anect style in which neither vessel
eo-'eils deserve admiration. One OF the
-, 80 9c1iIheT publications along the line ot art
Insured by spontaneous natural utterance IS
slnolnS Album for pianoforte in two volumes con-
tanning tnlrty-one OF the Norwegian composers
shorter compositions. This edition has been pro-
80 N-sn biographical and critical PREDATORY
note by Richard Aldrich. IN which he says:
" hiie. sindinE does not make the expression OF
isuc meodic and rbvtbn-ina 1-g use OF oIlaLacter
chief aim 81 MS must = 10 lsI5 elrL-sls;
takab.y IL evidence there. He does nor hesitate
ieaElessly 10 fo-l~ the trend OF his own indiTid-
Gality aEc, IN his larger works especially Is tree
scr -1---,.s s % means aoparenty subyersive OF
EI'55hee for his ideas He is less unconventional
element occasionally apr9ars in r,t me- ,tos s 2o
a. -. Pervsdlng- What chiefly inpresses in IL are
ment. '---'- - - composed Ior the lhstru-
klxultingly frank proclamation OF folk idiom may
De found In the collection Of pianoforte pieces by
Polish and Bohemian composers selected. edited
ana fingered by Louis Oesterle published by Schir-
Iner and called 'Slav Album That Mr. Oesterls
has cleaned a field but little known to American
.
me S9nposgrs represented in the collection They
&C Cesek ID orak, lE'bich Gawronski. Henisz Hof-
sTnetsns s IoSLA2WsAl' Padereyyski Romaszko
Nraoely. ZaTzycE and ZsrkoWitz.
Eduardo Mario has collected and edited sIxty-nve
Tuscan. FloreHtine, Lombardian and other Italian
folk and popular songs, which G. schirner has
published in 4 volume under the title Songs OF
Italy The songs not all OF equal value either
historically o. musically but they are sufficiently
varied IN character and oriGin TO make q conpre-
hensive study % Italian folksong possible a stuoy
which is very materially helped BY the notes pro-
Noed by the editor. We could have wished that
these notes had been made somewhat more copi-
Gus. Tor u is always well 10 point TO the stu
Gent how much OF social md political history Is
preserved IN these songs Of the people For in
-taEce. SiSnor Mario has included in his coIlec-
ton Two versions OF "Dona Loubarda" and one
OF 'L'Avolenato." songs which tell a story that
Is found IN The Oldest songs o: nearly, Y all
European peoples. which figure in English and
Scottish balladry as Lord Randall or Lord Ron
AID" aid which the grandrnothers cf New-EngIard
Sun sing under such titles "Tranty, Ny Son"
and Lord Ne'son-" The writer OF this paragraph
has himself succeeded in collecting hs44 a dozen
or more versions OF the old ballad in America ard
has traced the history % the Italian song back
go years @igra the Italian collector TO whom
folklorists the Pieduontese version printed BY
signor Mario expressed his belief that the poem
originally referred. Professor Crane, OF Cornell
y
records TO ne tragic death o. Rosam0ud Queen
- the LCubardS which occurred at Eavenuis IL
VA Professor Child cevotes many pages the
ScOtch-EuglIsh versions n the story n mis- uOnu-
mental work popular ballads SiguOr Mario has
not confined himself 20 songs answering the sci
Cut.dc description u folksong. but has included
some whose authorship and history well known.
bur which have been pOpulariZed by Garibaldt's
soldiers and other political movements Ike that In
which the gallant Ibera-Or took part A note on q
song q the N'apcitan bagppers fZGmpOguartl VIII
help students OF classical music 10 understand how
the simple music q the folk may influence great
composers, though We must dissent from the OpiI-
ION expressed by the editor that this IS probably
the identical 'plca' which suggested TO Handel
the theme of the pastoral symphony IN The Mes
F.al-' They tths ZaEnposEariJ. says SigUor
MARIO, come 20 Naples from the mountains OF
Ahcr,-ZZt AT Christina tce, and 20 about from
house 70 house. playing and singing before the
image OF t. Holy Infant during the NOveDa (thr
nine days before Chr.stmasl There are geuer-
ally Two VINO go together. one playing the bag
PIPE. the other species OF small clarinet called
ciarlnle-a. The music which IS given here IS
played by them with lt-le change, and while
the hagpiper continues the accompaniment, The
one who plays the clarinet stops 10 sing the df-
ferent stanzas OF this pastorale.'
From c. Schi-uer we have also new edition
2 81 - WaGner's lyric dramas IN pianoso-te
score. which is AZ one OF the most beautiful
auG valuable contributions Yet made by az Amerl-
can publisher 10 contemporaneous music The four