Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-17
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! MUSICAL NOTES :. 5
Items of Interest to Musicians Generally and Mem (
, berS OF the Mountain Home Band Particularly. Z

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the years. His first song was pub
lished when he was a shipping
clerk in Louisville, Ky, at the age
Of II, bearing the title of "Open
Thy Lattice to Me, Love" Then
followed Uncle Ned" 20, Susan
nah, F." ''Massa's in de Cold, Cold
Ground, "Old Black Joe," my
Old Kentucky Home" and 'The
Suwanee River These songs
have been sung all over the world.
Jenny Lind and Christine Nilsson
sang 1.-The Suwanee River in
all the capitals of Europe, bring
ing tears to the eyes of millions.
Foster also tried more serious COM
positions, the success of which ef-
fort was evidenced in the great
beauty of Come Where My Love
Lies Dreaming, but his forte lay
in the simple songs that, when
sung in the hours of evening, BAN
ish the thought of care. His story
is an old one. The fashion of his
songs passed; the world concerned
itself with new affairs; his sales
fell off, and he had taken no
thought of the morrow. He died
in New York in 1864; yet his songs
live and crowd the minds of those
who hear them with the picture of
the greaest heart musician Pitts
burg gave to the world.
The new management of the Nat
atorium has secured the services of
Prof. Frermuth's celebrated orches-
ira composed of eight people to fur
nish music at that well-known re-
sort. Prof. Frermuth and his Sc
lection of skilled musicians come
from Spokane and bring with them
the highest testimonials. Every
member of the orchestra is a special
ist in his line. Boise is to be con-
graduated on the coming of so dis
tinguished group of musicians.
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Over two thousand years before
the Christian era two Chinese writ
ers, Yao and Chun, recorded the
names and distinctions of eight
qualities of tone then in use, anc
though the story of the Emperor
Hoangty, later on, directing Lying.
Iun, his court musician, to regulat,
the scale and systematic the music
of that day, affords glimpse of ths
musicians of China in those early
times, the information is Sc
meagre and intermixcd with fable
that it is impossible to arrive a
any satisfactory conclusion as tt
the position of either music or mu
stefan in the Celestial Empire. w,
may, however, form the suppositior
by analogy that both were held il
some esteem.
That the Egyptians, amongs
whom the study of music was com
pulsory, were proficient in musi,
there can be very little doubt. TIL,
revelations of recent inquiry have
brought to light many evidences o
such, and the representations o
musical instruments and parties en-
gagged in performing thereon, alone
or in concert, to be seen on slab
and basrelicfs which have been dis
covered are sufficient to establish
that music, at least among thu
wealthy, was commonly practiced
Aside from those, however, is tn,
knowledge that Pythagoras, B. c
600, was educated in Egypt, ant
that through him the theories ant
practices of the Egyptians wer,
disseminated in Greece, and, no
ending there, have descended to IL
through long line of philosopher
and practical musicians.
Music in Greece was quite as di
versified in its application a
amongst us of this later period. |
was practiccd as an accomplish
ment, utilized at private gather
ings and public festivals, in tn
temple and among the warriors, a
an accompaniment to oratory and il
competitive trials of skill. Anon,
the more prominent theoretical mu
sicians stand the names of Pytha
goras, Euclid and Aristoxenus
whilst on the practical side are ar
rayed Terpandcr, Olympus, who in
troduced flute playing into Greece
and Tyrtaeus, the admirable erich
ton of his day.
The Emperor Nero, ''who fiddle'
while Rome was burning" an
instituted competitions where il
he came off victor ''by command,
occupies prominent position
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