Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-05-20
Prof. Goldmark on Folk Song"


from lho sudden imagination ana inn
prompW uUoWncuU of mdNlduuls
which were taken mp by othur, and
after altering through lnusr Dos some
WBUo combination uI rlrouuhluuCvA
favorable to the process hopumu rrls'
tUll8tl into concrete melodies when
were Wlittuu out iu some form ana
made permanent, on taught traditional.
~ Ike the great opic poems of oorly
Civilizations,
The lecturer then called attention ~
the American negro melodies ihomCN
from which had been appropriated by
Dyorpk ana constituted the frame work
Of hls New World symphony Several
Of those American melodies which Prof
loldmurk had heard himself In tho
south, he played on the piano, NOTING -
distinctive mark IN tho syncopntlons az
the ends OF measures, HAD thcso mclu,
dies been German, the ayncopntlon
would have been omitted, SyCopHllOn
IN placing the accent ont of ilR regular
place IN orthodox musical progression,
and ing time" IL FynrOpntiun carried
ont to iig fullest logical extent These
negro melody themes are being Appro.
prlatc1 by composers ana form thu
foundation for am interesting develop.
ment
While Russian Polish, German ana
northern composers have written M
Vulnerable scores, without giving any IN
dlwtou mtTuyicully of the nationality
Of the composer many works Of WrllpN
pl lhcrc untunnliUV have been disc,
lMpty national; bus o every ease Dee.
cHusc of the locuI folk SONGS which
have furnished the Wrplntlou Nrlog
W. distinctly uUUUnul uvlluap hp lr IN.
fused wan the spirit Of the melodies ~
hIa people, and I'm his Norwegian muH
eID lB noticed Immediately the peculiar
mplodip ana harmonic composition o'
lbu Norwegian nud swedish people,
SrhuINpnkU hla WWN,n music lhU ls
dIrtnclyty Polish, music That indl.
DUius ilH OrElu lt once us tor instance
hIg dances tukuu from tho melodies ac.
rompanyng the dincluR of hg country.
mnn But II IN tO the great German
rDmpoecN that we owe moro man 10
any other nation Tor tho marvellous
plugrpgs made by music I'm the LAST goo
years. II took n thousand years for the
various threads ana countless iilnmont
OF the musical art to gradually gather
together uud concentrate a. 'Nhuru lhorr
was q guiNcicut capitalization for romp
genius to recognize and mold into mat
npprocluble form whore u could be Hiv'
ON P.mancnt ana lasting place
among the arts
The lecturer clllcdNattontlon 20 th,
fact that IN sculpture and pUmlInE ana
IN Its philosophy ana classic literature.
Eurouc had received a rich inheritance
rom the GrCoW ana llom0us, while uh'
solutoly nothing had come from them
IN the way Of music N WAS not until
the lhrd century that the first begin,
umg3 were mado I'm tho way OF chunta
from the Catholic church ana which I'm
the course ~ development resulted IN "a
musical renaissance I'm the Nulhofuuda
followed by one I'm Italy ANA then NJ
Holland. which gave puloalrhn and h's
umlcnlosH work 10 iho world, liul II
remained FOR Mozart tu become The cen.
ter around which he Novo into u fab.
rte which gave the art 10 the world o.
Nenus gpunW from the rrolh of he soN
and az Minerva epung from the brain
of Jupiter Ana from him the grcut
Ocrmm composers followed, npprppll'
utug the WnlorIpl he Furnished ana
which they have roWoVon ana RlNou a
development IN eSlonso when has on
Nchod the world,
Az A practical Illustration Of tho
"f9Iksongy," Miss Agatha Borkhoel
sang rcloclIonl IN ltUlian, Dnnlan,
Fronch and Sv,llphp Norwegian shop
herd goOU, ~ rohomOn, two Russian
mud two Hungarian numbers, the lee.
uWpr playing the accompaniment MisN
Bukhopl mudn "A great hit, ana The M,
dlcnrr appreciated the task That had
bocu ul, out for hor ana The crodlt0hN
why ND which shc fulfilled a. Her voice
was INA 0no condition ana she took hol1
Wrh pleasing Nigor
Al me close Of the lecture, both proc
fpwOr and singer WClo congratulated