Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-29


Music affords us pleasure because
1t thrills and fascinatee the emotional
nature said Homer Newton Bartlett,
the well-k known American composer.
in an address on "Orchestration" at
Ocean Grove, n. ] ut has been re-
ferred to as the language of the soul.
1t takes us from the confines of this
physical existence and transports us
to the highest conception of celestial
Joy. The performance of a grand
symphony by a competent orchestra
actually bombards the senses ana
holds our intellectual and emotional
nature in thraldom.
Sound is the medium by which
music is made comprehensive to the
human mind Music may be defined
as an agreeable combination and ar
rangement of sounds. Sound. then, is
the musicians material.
THE most primitive races of man
can never have been without a method
o. expression which answered, for
them, as music. His own vocal or
gsns would naturally afford to print
tive man the readiest and most easily
controlled means; his shouts in battle
would be practised or initiated in the
war dance; his groans of pain Would
be reproduced when the death-feast
ceremonies, was in progress. the
rhythmic movements of the dance
whether with or without vocal SOUNDS
would be marked by some sort OF
percussion-the clapping of the hands,
as we see among the plantation dar-
kies; the swapping of the fingers, as IN
some gypsy dances; or by instru-
ments, such as the castanets or tne
Spaniards, the cymbals of the Greeks
and Egyptians. or the tampourihes
and drums of other races.
IA gain. in tranquil times and places.
when war and grief were memories or
presentments, the shepherd. far anelo,
has time aplenty on his hands TO en-
neriment with various devices TOT cal
irc, or Guiding his cattle or MS oogs,
10 then, the spoken word OF command
rod no Significance beyond the tome
An which ii was uttered or the accom-
nanving gesture. The shriilness OF
hia own whistle could pc irnilAeeu ~
some hollow reed found growing aions
the brooks near the waterins l,itot
Savorai Of these. differing IN plteh'
ssste,,ed side by de,gayethe Panoean
,,trae the rudimentary harmonlca' OF
,,,n,,tln organ. of childhood Gays,
notahlv large or long. straight ssein,
with holes at regular Intervals H.
49, engers could control, mace .ne
nrimitive flute or fiageolet accoruins
&c one blew into the end or the siue
A conch-s shell or the hollow morn. %
some animal--a sheep or COW
would be a natural recourse Wieh
reeds or canes were out Of the Dues
ION and the peculiar effect OF tne
horn class of wind instrument Is .nus
accounted for. ,,.;n
"The classical legend Of the. origin
az the lyre, which may be taken as
I've type of the stringed instruments,
riayed by swapping the strings WIN
he fingers, attributes IT to Mercury,
~to az a child playing ABOUT
ne mouth of the cave where
IN he dwelt with his mother
Ma,a caught and killed TOT.
tn,se and wrenched apart the Top
and bottom shells. In the process
snrna fragments of the tendons OF
oth Ether inner mechanism OF the
creat,,re were caught on the edges OF
the concave upper shell; drying IN tne
5 sl,Tl they became stretched ana tau.;
/ sailing with intent the instrument OF
chance lho de1ligcd swept the tuneIui
strings-and thus was born the lyre.
TanoS apars. the sound accompany
ms The vibrnt CHS OF the stretched
cord could not fail TO attract Inc