The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-04-06
u. ruture Of Music.

The Future OF MUSIC.
NJ music, seriously con-
,.s cyoluli,oonnr been an allurinG object
.ssd. has i;nn iTMe phllosophic study and
;lveslisS.,,n,a ~, many master minds. one
1.hiion ps works that ''breaks new
;e resem this line OF thought is that
rsspa' a'n aiyne Busoni. an Italian planist
fGfuc,sJi1Tity who three years ago PAID
rss, ,e America Busonl ~ usaies@ @ IA
dn,ssuiIons, and. as ne LINES, ti,ne wben
ts, loohs ooh.ste for itself new scales.
20 rlll ,ee cJ and new forms. The
Ia haflloof NJ his essay is freedom,
raiug BOZ ,po,n rules that have for CEN
suslon followed. >.
is been bio, history history. as he interprets it,
n piu'I.Nr Nrr,cnaration FOR this consum-
3 bssn .a,ti,sic @as born free, he says.
|uips. IN freedom is Its destiny. In
IL . ,ait,ons ~,n OF Mozart, of Schumann:
w1pohe he traces the beginnings Of
FL libera ton. FTe-enlnently N !,
sssssen "the romantic reFo,utio may;
y, en one Hbo has heiped 10 leaa music 9
~ lie he loftier self. The poetic hre.
|st 70 ltS tenper, the neurotic touches.
ID rlalcs,,h ,hovon In Susonis judgment,
II secn,odsrn rather than the classic
u 'hs IN Beethoven. Bach may be
GL Nave borne closest affinity to
E 70 TSJ TneueJe" Wagner. a. Germanic
tsn1e,,srsif,ed the form OF musical eX-
u lh' S,t IA sllioned II into a. system
fssogs 81 srsma. defamation, leading mo.
md is on this account incapa hle OF
n., insenslfcatlon- ihe paths
~ beethoven Busoni contends,
~ followed TO their end only through
s.ntIone. They-Hke all Lhinss In
<:sIsr~rnay form only a circle; but
Ls,sia 10 us seems like a straight
rs ynsrs circle we can view In its
80 circle within the great cir
y. ,sms Of Wagner leads TO a con-
is,,ar -, NJ programme music. which
r.sards as Inevitably limited and
rsyscIory. He even feels that nota-
ne writing out of compositions, Is
wsIcbt hung on 70 soaring wings.
2..,Ion is 10 improviza ton as the por-
a "a 10 the living model. We have
! t<sorn. go accustomed, Busonl con-
10 10 listening 70 music as rendered
| ~isyboard Instruments that we cannot
.'.-as.nd n except through impure
-Jr,ns We are tyrannIzcd by major
/ 4 -inor scales-by the bifurcated gar
'.s,,-yet "tbey both present the same
rs NOW more joyous, now more serl-
=. md n mere touch OF the brush SUI
- N t,Irn the orc into the other our
|~n,.ione scale appears TO Busoni some
= oniie artificial. He declares that
|, Ss himself succeeded In establishing
IA 5iFerent scales. and he cites DR..
|-,5ssus CahiIl's invention, the dynamo
| <rs which makes II possible 10 trans
|En an electric current into an i'm
II. set fixed and mathcmaucally eX-
| ID nuTnber OF vibrations, These 1lS
|ng" Busoni continues. comprise the
rsrr part OF our familiar twenty-four
Z. and furthermore, series of new
IL Of peculiar character But with
"a The mine is not exhausted, for we
'r lt liberty TO transpose each OF these
"a hssIdes the blending of two such
||5I b harmony and melody"
| Tat vista OF fair hopes and dream
rs hncIes exclaims Busoni. Is thus
|sssl
| 'T6o has not dreamt that lie could
II Oh air. and firmly believed his dream
|sk reality? Let lie take thought how
|rSs may be restored TO It's primitive,
|krzl essence; let us free II from
|rii,sctonic, acoustic and esthetic dog
|1g It Il be pure Invention anG seni"
|,aL In harmonics, in forms. In tone
Ii lie prerogative of melody alone), let
|t15T the line OF the rainbow and vie
|A he clouds in breaking sunbeams. let
|rSs be naught else than nature mir
IL br and reflected from the human
|C2a; for 1t is sounding air and floats
|1H and beyond the air; within man
|csf as universally and absolutely as
L rstton entire; for II can gather to-
&c and dlsperse without losing in In
Ills book, Beyond Good and Evil"
eaich Nietzsche speaks OF the posi-
|-q oi a super German music, which
, not fade, wlther and die away In
IL Of the blue. sensuouS sea and the
|lsaor Of Mediterranean skies, as all
IN music does;-a super European
"a that asserts itself even amid the
~ sunsets Of the desert. whose soul
|latd with the palm tree, and can con-
shd prowl with great, beautiful.
beasts OF prey" Nietzsche tries
.Ssglns "a music whose rarest charm
- consist In It's complete divorce
ue good and the had-only that
hnece might be rufned. as it were.
nnslng as Of a sailor for home. by
|c@ele golden shadows and tender frall-
|+en art which should sec fleeing to-
|sah rom afar off. the hues OF a per-
moral world become well-n nigh in
-.%,,eHasenfiole. and which should be
bslatsd fugitives" And Tolstoi.
eSutes landscape Impression into
aeal impression when he writes. In
1Sahe Neither on the lake, nor
s mountains. nor in the skies, n
straight line, a single unmiyed
single point OF repose every
movement, irresularlty. caprice,
AZ. IN incessant interplay OF shades
ss' anu In IT. all the reposcfulness.
ars., harmony and ineYita bleness OF
ss ihlS music, asks Busoni, ever be
s%ssaa! I'D! He answers:
Svs all reach Nirvana: but he who.
ION the beginning, learns every
h ~ e. one ought TO learn, experiences
|si ~, ons should experience. ronounces
= ,Sos,S e ,shoaid renounce. develops what
1suvuin r.a develop, realizes what one
| n SIze-he shall reach Nirvana,'
IA ,ana ana M be tho realm beyond the
:d., - Tue oed, one way leading
" w, Is 1sre pointed out A way tol
t'sy portal. To the bars that divide
n MAJ eternity-or that open TO ad-
q. ; sor;. which was temporal. Beyond
r,,;ss sounds music. Not the strains
|ht ss,sh art II may be that we must
4 &. l n,,ato 70 fnd that music. But only
' In lh who has succeeded on the
Esil,. -uselng himself from earthly
'hai' The bars open"
american Music Lacks.
IN. Nv American composer. with the
N estr,o,. ptlon OF the late MacDoWell,
- ,ns.s ule dominant note of si-
pa recosa5nlp which commands uni
} ab5 shhtioD." is admitted Gener-
% reau,,Sil py ell American critics OF