The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-05-31

full of the national airs is the "Watcnl
on the Rhine" Sung by great num-
bers of Germans, it cannot help but
make tremendous appeal to them,
this song in which the greatest patri-
otism and highest tribute to the Faith
eriand finds expression:
Shakespeare has said:
"The man that hath no music in him.
self,
Nor is not moved by concord of sweet
sounds,
Is fit for treason, strategems and
spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as
night,
And his affections dark as Erebus."
But that man is very hard to find
in whose soul there is not some re-
Spouse to something in music. He
must, indeed, be devoid of the deep
est human emotions. Of coursel the
greatest numbers of people Care not
partial to the most classic writers,
yet in the composers who today stand
as second only to the chosen few, and
whose names when mentioned, in
stantly bring to mind softness, deli
cacy, richness, there is always some
thing to correspond to our every
mood, and which. when we have
heard it, gives us one thing more to
make our lives richer, fuller, and
more sensitive to beauty.
Down the great river of life, as one
glides between its banks, one will see
many things and many objects which
do not please, and which one would
never dream TO attract to oneself. But
the river of life is also a river Of
dreams, and, down that river If
dreams you see from bank to bank
ideal creatures singing to you the un-
dying songs of the world, and with
each turn persuading you that to be
faithful in music is to know some
thing of the higher life of artists,
who in the great springtide of life,
taught us sense of human beauty
and realized something even beyond
the pale of human beauty before
which the world has ever since stood
in admriing wonder There is a GER
tain pleasure in being overpowered
by great masterpieces, but that pleas
ure is nothing compared to the abso-
lutte faith which one gives with the
whole heart ito that which he knows
to be true and good. There begins
and ends our love of music In the
lence, when the heavens are not yet
broad with light, though dimmed with
eyentide, these men have crept SLOW
ly up to the mountains, land with
their harps and their flutes in, the
hands of their choristers, their
strings and noble brass, they summon
the world to sunrise, and with out
stretched arms sing hymn of inef-
fable beauty, while many are so far
below that recognize nothing of the
great song. Yet others on their knees
in alteration, climb gradually to the
feet of the masters.
"All we have willed or hoped or
dreamed of good, shall exist;
Not it's semblance, but itself; no beau
ty, nor good, nor power
Whose voice has gone: forth, but each
survives for the melodist,
When eternity confirms the concep-
ton of an hour
The high that proved too high, the
heroic for earth, too hard,
The passion that left the ground 70 |
lose itself in the sky
Is music sent up to God by the lover
and the bard;
Enough that he heard it once; we
shall hear it bye and bye.
But here is the finger OF God, nasn |
of the will that can
Existent behind all laws that made
them, and 10, they are!
And know not if, save in this, such
gift be allowed to man,
That out of three sounds he framed, |
not fourth sound, but a star
Music is so closely associated to
life in its movements, the adagic ap-
passionate resembles the sentimental
mood. march tempo, the heroic mood.
largo. the thoughtful mood. 1t takes
hold of the mind by its brilliant. pic
turesque and logical arrangement OF
melodic ideas, by its development OF
them in accordance with a broad and
mastery design. When it is employ
ed as an illustrative art, as in the
case of the modern opera, it courts