The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-05-24
DCALA SCHOOL OF Music
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living and is still beautiful and as
i've
She was not only a leader of socie-
ty, bat was a leader in church work.
and incidentally in church reform.
She would nov be called d pro
gressiye.' Without, perhaps, con-
sulting the elders, she had mel0dian
installed into the church 10 assist in
the song service This was objected
to by some OF the deacOns and older
members, for they believed it to be
a mortal sin, dissertation TO the
building, to have a musical instru-
out, for the pious and devout beliey
ers felt that God could not be proper
1y worshipped in any other form
After hard fight the melodian Won
out, and there IS heard in that church
today the pipe organ and other must
cal instruments.
Churches are no longer cold, cheer
less places, the nightmare of the
young, but are made attractive and
inviting Stoves, electric fans and
flowers are among their adornments,
vocal and instrumental music form
chief attraction and add immensely
to the attendance and spirituality Of
our public worship.
The four cardinal agencies that
gave pre-eminence to the great en-
pires of the past and have added ~
their Immortality, are: Architecture,
sculpture, painting and music.
AS the nations of the earth gradual
/ ly ascend to the higher slopes of civ
| ilization these agencies will the more
and more exert their refining and pu-
rifying influences.
We are told by some of the poets
that at the dawn of creation the heay-
emily bodies sang together in sympho-
ny, and it has taken our age, through
the invention of Marconi, to demon
strate that that were true. We now
know that music is everywhere, that
it glides along on the waves of heat
and light, as well as on the waves Of
| the sea.
Byron has beautifully said:
There is a pleasure in the painless
woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely
shore,
10 nfX- MI N.
trudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its
roar"
AS expressed by another poet:
There's music in the signing of a
reed,
There's music in the gushing of a
rill:
There's music in all things, if me1
had ears:
Their earth is but an echo Of tn :
| Spheres
Cogitating on something approprr
ate to say on this occasionn | was con
fronted with what Shakespeare hal
said about the man who hath not
music in himself: who i. not moved
by the concord of sweet sounds, is lit
for treason, strategems and spOils.
Shakespeare is said TO have unray
eled human nature as no other man
has ever done before o" since, and
jstood in closer touch with all the
Qualities of our being.
Be thai as it may, the more | have
Ipondered on what the great bard has
;said about the man who hath not mu
sic in his soul the more l am con
WINGED that he was correct.
| do not believe that there was ever
"a person created who has not at some
time been moved by the melody OF
song.
We see this in the mothers lullaby
to her child: we see it in the full
grown man as he goes forth proudly
to battle under the animating strains
of martial music. We are not only
thrilled and animated by its vibrant
sounds, but We are sOOthed and lulle.i
By its soft and balmy airs.
Not only does music have an ami
mating and lulling effect upon human
beings. bat it has a like effect upon
Gods lower orders of creation.
We know how the war-horse shifts
the battle afar off; how he prances
TO the music and rushes to the rattle
of musketry and booming Of cannon
how We are told that even fishes arc
often lured to the nets by the soft
Tipping OF the fishermen, and an item
is going the rounds of the press al
the present moment that cows can be
prevailed upon TO yield almost a dou
Ible quantity of milk by the playing
Iof soft melodies as the milking is GO
ing on: while on the contrary, furious
music from a full brass band will
stampede them and make the yield OF
milk impossible.
No wonder Congreve wrote:
Music hath charms to soothe a saw
age breast,
To soften rocks or bend a knotted
oak
I've read that things inanimate have
moved,
And with living souls, have been in
formed,
BY magic numbers and persuasive
sound"