The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-03-12
RARE TREAT FOR
MOSCOW PEOPLE
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS BE-
GINNING SUNDAY WILL BE
MOST INSTRUCTIVE.
First Of Series viii Begin at 4 p. M.
and Public mvited-NO
Charge.

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to be given during March and April on
successive Sunday afternoons in the
university auditorium by the string
quartet, appears to have created the
same keen interest in all readers
which any plan mentioned by the de-
partment of music always arouses
The programs will no doubt be attend
ed by all of the students and faculty
and by that numerous company of
townspeople who enjoy good music
and who deplore Moscow's rather in
frequent chances to hear it.
For the benefit of those whose ideas
of what chamber music consists of
may be rather vague, the Star-Mirror
has gathered a few facts relative to
the history and nature of this increas-
ingly appreciated type of music. In
asmuch as Mr.. Hulme will, on the oc-
casion of each recital, make explana-
tory notes, there will be no attempt
facts necessary to an intelligent con-
ception of what is planned for the
pleasure of the Sunday afternoon au-
diences.
Meaning of Chamber Music.
By chamber music is meant all that
class CT music which is especially suit
ed to performance in room. 1t in
cludes any types of music and any Sc
lections that do not require many per-
formers and that do not attempt to
produce great volume of sound 1t
refers to the kind of music from which
the finest effects are to be procured
when it is given in a room whose di
are nleasurably smaller than
those of the average concert hall or
church.
Chamber music is not new. Author
tiles say it goes back to the time Of
Louis the 14th who had in his service /
"a master of chamber music for the |
king" The type was well known in !
Italy in the 18th century where it was
confined to pieces for the
single voice accompanied on a single |
instrument. In it's earlier years, the |
erm chamber music was usually sup
posed to apply to singing, but its
character underwent a gradual change,
md in time compositions for stringed I
Instruments rather than for the voice
we're the usual forms. Nowadays to
he average person the name connotes
rios, quartets, or quintets for the vio-
in, viola, and cello, with occasional
Use of the piano; but the best writer's
gree that it is still eminently correct
o use the name to distinguish songs
ung by one or two persons in small
DOM or hall.
Concerts Have Become Popular.
Nearly all composers have written
nusic to be performed under the con-
itions peculiar to chamber music
rograms. Haydn, Mozart, and Beet
oven are among the most famous
f the artists who have left large
ody of this form of music. Public
aste has so changed as to make the
emand for the string quartet con-
erts extremely popular and in large T,
tiles, in order to admit those who !
emand seats, the smaller halls have i
cen given up in favor of the large S
leatres. By this practice the name {
chamber music has become scarsely i
ppropriate, but it is not considered Ii
kelly that it will be abandoned on
lat score. IL
In his excellent book on what is {
BOD music" Mr. w. J. Henderson /
)ints out that the chief characters @
cs of chamber music when performed I
7 string quartet are unanimity, ab t
lutte agreement of quality and force, a
Iuality Of excellence among the per-
rmers, and an absence of dis play a
10 work by any one of the group or k
, the pianist when one is included c
The Cultural Value. ?
The cultural value of chamber music =
string quartets is summed up by =
r. Henderson as follows:
ITO love and understand quartet =
aging is the surest evidence of good :
ste in music, because this is the =
rm of entertainment in which the
nsuous element is most kept in the
ckground and the most direct appeal
made to the judgment Persons 81
10 desire to arrive at comprehen- S.
IN of form, and of the aesthetic al
alities Of music, should attend sc
ing quartet concerts frequently" W
Tomorrow afternoon, at 2:30, the ic