The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-04-20
Music, the Souls Refuge.

Music, the Souls Refuge.
That the tendency of this days me,
,ss ,s rs snsaTs.e s, ;5Tt Sna ,srsin !.
tiou OF IDEALS canno. but be admitted b.
those who pause long enough IN the race
20 calmly think That music IN our
sands ot people against the onslaugnt Is
and dclusloas 90 ma;sriallsn." Is the
view held by Francis G1erson. an EnE.
alone In holding music 70 be the "on.
land for most of tho great poets and
rRnS rhytsm ssgH spr, rse sps,ch she YET sfs ~.
views 50 clearly e1preSssd In a recently
published essay IN the oxford and Cam
bridge Review as 10 require only the
According 70 walter Paier. ALI art
sspircs 'owart music" Mr. Gr1erson de-
cisres that N Pstsr had said music will
soon take precedence of ell the other
aTts. he would have been equally right
He proceeds.
Sentiment and emotion must havs an
outlet Modes ot expression rhift from
one arr 10 another. And n II Is tue
tha; realism has taken the place OF ro-
nance IN The novel. n u r. true that tho
cynical h8s hanlshed the ideal from lit
erature- n tho com onmonplace has taken
the place ~ beauty in art, music re-
stores on that the other arts have lost
u is tlo only art untrRmmelled By sccts,
opinions, paruef and graphical Inn
rs with m adequate expression for all
tho varying moods OF humanity and the
most subtle iutimatlons OF world lying
tcVond that OF reason and Will
lndiyidusllsm and contradiction, Mr..
Grierson continues. have driven the soul
20 seek a refuge IN the over-uord OF
harmonic vibrations.
Z In EnsiAnd. Plritnnlsm put a ban on
music. and the people were driven 10
roeirr for a psychic appeal % the higher
stutes of consciousncsf Milton Vas a
musician no expressed his emotions In
verse and was the frat 10 sill the void
bur not tiii the death of Tcnnyson did
poetry In England begin 10 give way 10
musical Inspiration,
Shelley 9as lyrical netaphysloiar.
Hfo~ning ,Tled 90 wed philosophy 20
rhyme. Wordsworth did his utmost 10
bring the divinity In nature TO the COM
rtehenSiOu % the people. bu; all the Eng
lish poets of The past hundred years
were agitatcd los n spirit ot transition.
Tnev represented not 20 much a state
III tho soul a. a spirit OF agitation and
oui for something just above attain
ineut Swinhurne came the nearest 10
welding words 10 music. aud his poetry
mlEht have been "a psychic as u vas
musical had he not Ia tho beginning,
stepped his mind IN tho transient com
fnonplaccs or political and iransitory
passions He reyelled lu combinations of
rryu~ a. Richard Wagner often rcvellod
iu combinations OF chords behind which |
there was no meaning. Swinhurne
reached the bordorland where words
rifeaut fact that Just as he finished his |
career music established her dominion |
not only In England, but In All the Eng |
iiFh-spcakinE ccunir.es''
II required. MIR Grierson anirms. four
centuries Of English poetry 70 prepare
TN" Anglo Saxon ear for \ return OF the I
Breeks. and nearly 5000 years for The
orphcan vibration 10 enclrcle the west /.
crn worlds lie writes further:
with the Greeks music vas the basis !,
Ill HaHHhaN HHa.N
spiratlon. with them certain modes or
music had an croieric meaning. a positive /
rcaTing on creative thought. a power 20 /
awaken dormant faculties and cugender I
under tho Cscshrs. music lost It's psychic /
power. but With tho advent OF Palss- /
irina + became means OF religious eX- 4
ulGiion. Palcstrins made 10 a method /
~ praise instead of channel of In !
sp!ration as with the Greeks Later. the \
Italian opera became vehicle for the \
hnmor form oi amusenen, for the /
passing hour. with little suggestion oi l
tho mystical or the osotcric. With tho /
symphony ecgan that combination ot I
melody form and rhythm which was 20 f.
lead the Nay 10 a return of the tou1l .
symbols and csotsric meanings Of the /
ancicnts.
"And now once more IN The history AZ /
civilization the signs point 10 union Of 4
music, literature and philosophy. with \
music ss the key 20 all. II such a union \
- contaminated u VII meta irorphoIs 4
The worid of art literature and psy- I
choloSy One thing may be taken for
grSntcd-ulsic IN our day. has become |
for many thousands OF people q refuge .
against tho 0uslaughts and deluslous OF I
and just lu proportion az
opinions become moro positive music .
VIII become more imperative. Society /.
having become chaotic people win be
more and more attracted TO the harmony
created by rhythmic sounds But moro
Than All else music Is becoming
psy chic necessity