New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-07

piece, which can scarcely be called a
motel, and probably for that reason
was called sacred symphony" by its
composer, Il has q large historical IN
tereSt from the fact that it is one Of
the earliest examples eXtant of the
employment Of orchestral instruments
IN association with voices in ecclesIas-
teal music. The orchestra was bu'
coming into existence when Gabrieh
lived, and yet in this composition II Is
employed IN Independent movements a
well IS TO accompany the voices. In
arranging il for performance Dr.. Frank
Damrosch has tried 70 solve a much
more difficult problem than that pre-
scented by Bach'S music, with its lnstld-
ments that are now obsolete, or the
others which have undergone changes
which make their manipulation IN the
old manner impossible. Gabriell's band
consists Of three "cornetti." a viol da
gambia and two trombones. The pro-
grammc announces simply wind m
struments," for it appears that Dr.
Damrosch is still experimenting with
various instruments in order to give q
performance which in tone color or
tone character shall approach as nearly
as possible 20 that which was heard
In The Church Of s.. Marks, in Venice.
three hundred years ago. II the cor
re.to of that day was like the cornet
Of to-day the problem would be easily
solved: but il was not. 1t was a
wooden instrument with finger holes,
the straight variety Of which had the
size and appearance of modern oboe,
but which was played by means OF a
cup-shaped mouthpioce. The manner
Of producing the tone was therefore
like that employed Oh the trumpet. bu'
the material and bore were like those
Of the modern wood wind instruments.
The use of the corAetti they were
called zinken in Germany ceased IN
The time of Handel, though the contra
bass OF the family. the so-calied ser
pent. endured in rural parts till pretty
deep down into the last century. Dr..
Danrosch's experiments have been de-
voted 10 making modren brass instru-
ments approximate them IN tone. ne
outcome will be awaited with curiosity
Concerning "Pm Seventeen Come
Sunday" Mr.. Granger writes IN PR
yate communication: Mr.. Fred AKIN
son. the Lincolnshire man from whose
singing ! collected the tune, was
roo6vorker and farm laborer, and per
hans the Youngest man | nave ever
collected English folksongs from, being
abouf forty-fve years old, and was the
rossessor Of one OF the loveliest tenor
voices | have ever heard. The tune
and words are enormously widespread
over Great Britain and Ireland IN al
most unrecognizably diverse variants
There is hardly genuinely, agrlcultI,
ural village in any part Of the Onlteu
KINGDOM where most of the older men
If The farm laborer class cannot sing
mis- song" "I'm Seventeen Come Suh-
Gavp was also collected by Cecli .,
Sbarn in Somersetshire for the Engiisn
FoIksong Society, and not having Mr'
Grainper's Lincolnshire version at nshd
we nrint three stanZas of MI. SnSrp =
tho variations are insignificant:
Al walked out one May morning
IN, Nav morning 50 cary,
o,c,took : handsome mad
l,.t - the .Iu was flslHa .., a.,
yy,,I nv rue DUN day. fol the dloole uo'
~ tie dol Inc dlddle dunn the Gay
Her shoes were bright, her HochnH '"'
Her buckles shOne IKE SILVER
che bad 4 black and rolling eve
And her hair hung down her shouioei'
with my rue dun dSy, &c
How old are you. nv fair. pretty maid
wow Old you. my honey
cine answered quite chteUuly
81 m seventeen come sunday.
With ny rue dGm la, &c