The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1910-08-25

N.N ~ a' ~ aNaHn
- wife expresses her
longing for the alb
sent one. Our meetings in the
house OF Cod are accompanied by de-
youonal songs sad and somber mu.
sic asceuds IN the house Of mourn
Ing, and yet. what a relief this music
Is TO sorrowing hearts, With tho
OF drum and trumpet and the
clang OF the Cymhal the soldier plum
ges into the smoke and carnage OF bat.
tie, and even the trained horses dance
and curyet IN time with the music
and strain az the relus which restrain
them and learn the meaning OF the
different bugle calls. Love. anger. sor.
row, enthusiasm, pain-all the pas
sions n emotions Of the human soul
can be. n are, expressed in mu
sic
The progress which has been made
IN the composition Of music and in the
building d musical Instruments Of
every Kind IS enormous. The print
tive instruments OF the aucieuts and
their mOaotonOOs music. or the instru.
nHents n barhgrous or semI-ciyilizcd
pcop+e snd Tie iutolerablc noise which
they call music cannot be compared
with the expressive harmony OF our
music or whh the multitude Of boau-
ful and powerful musical instruments
and In The execution Of musical pieces
our = has doubtless advanced furth.
or than any preceding time. In com.
position. however. IN the art OF pro
ducinB musical pieces. the past cen.
tury undoubtedly had greater masters
than the present.
AZ the opening Of the nineteenth
century nc musical leadership. which
period. had passed 10 Germany. and in
the twentieth century q appears as II
Germany would also lose this exalted
position In is tuFn, for IN the Geld
o. art nc nation can long hold IN,
Leadership Perhaps the industrial
and commercial development % Ger
many may b. one OF the causes why
the number Of It's great composers s.
decreasing. for though prosperity 9,
no obstacle TO the enjoyment and cul
tiyatL1n ~ art. yet 81 docs not aocm q
form a specially favorable soil for IN,
growing masters Of this noble art
When tho nineteenth ccntur,
daWDcd bach. Haondsl and Mozsr'
had raLsd Gorman music 90 u pin
nsoie q glory. and Beethoven aDt
foctiun "a today. Chamber music ha,
Haydn were NJ the zenith OF thcil
splendid powers. while IisTt. Weber
kr~utacr aHd Schubert had bogur
their immortal careers. Before Hee
thoveA died. Mcndolssohn, Schumant
and Wagner had been born. This wa,
therefore q golden hgo Of music via
an unonAmpled array Of peerless mas
tcu ana unoqualled musical works
Comparing the present aEc with the
Elogtoas time. W. arr compelled {,
admit thAt To-Day thorr are no giant
In mpa4osa competition. for the thrc'
greatest composers Of tho present IA
ward GrtaF. Antou pvorak and Rich
ard Strauss. only the last named
GaT7aan. DO not reach up 60 the stand
ard q the heroic age.
But thnsEh there are today no Gel
nan composers Of commanding g,
MUS. yet therc has mover bc5n a tim
when their works were 90 highly ~
tcemod and produced with such pei
reached the highest stage OF develop
mont In Germany.
In England also musical cducatio
has reached a high degree OF perfc,
ton. but England never produce
many composers and none OF con
mandinE genius Richard ElgRr Ia
however. succeeded I'm meeting with s
much approval that he is being reel
oned among the groat composers tn
majority Of british and Irish con
posers, however. are content 20 10
low IA the footsteps q German ma.
ters; the later Ncs, though followin
their own ideals. love TO walk abroa
In the mantle OF wagner or Hrahms
France has for three centuries o.
cupied a prominent place on the mai
steal stage and her great mastsr
Bololdieu. Aubcr. Ecrold. Adam an
Chopin offer much hat e. intsrvstln
and valuable Yet Il must be a,
mitted that here the tendency wa
mainly 20 write FOR the opera and "a
the production Of light and friyolou
music. or n more serious and noble
character are the modern mualo'