Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-12-10

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with his hands than with a hundred
words, the same thing a painter or
sculptor represents human face with
such expression. that is impossible to
deliver in no human tongue However,
no other art is capable to express
our internal feeling as deep as music.
| In all these respects music serves us
every moment, where we need her,
while any other art demands very
much time to produce what our feel
i1gs expresses and at this time the
truthful feeling is certainly long
over, and the artist must continue his
work by memory, not speaking of the
fact. How amusing the idea alone is
when a man who outlives a deep mo-
ment of what might be sad or happy
soul excitement, should sit down at the
same time to paint or paste something
with clay.
The influence of music in human life
is great and manifold The fact that
it is, is told in the Holy Bible where
David with his harp momentary used
tc drive away the melancholy from
King Saul is not an unusual one;
that happens everywhere. The influ-
ence of music during war is also
{ known to everybody; not one coward
became through her hero, how much
a song sweetens the long, monotonous
hours of labor the workingman only
knows; everybody knows what majes-
tic charm the sounds of an organ has
in religious music
Now, is it necessary to discuss the
role of music in happy affairs? Not
only at wedding, at every entertain
ment. at every important meeting, at
every national holiday, must be music;
otherwise, the holiday turns ordinary.
Music accompanies all important
events from our private life and social
affairs, from the cradle song to the
funeral march, and there is not an
other branch of art tnar could be COM
pared to her in this respect
Music has yet an advantage that is
nct quite to appraise. For instance.
to learn any other art, the man must
be sufficiently developed and possess
manifold knowledge, that is not aces
sible to everybody For instance,
FAINTER must possess a big knowledge
in optics, anatomy, psychology and
pany other sciences, while the tunes
OF music form especially a seif-n. ade
kingdom that has nothing to do with
any other art or science, and the doors
oil this kingdom stand open for both
scholar and illiterate, for old and
young. for all alike, grown-ups and
little ones.
Music occupies the same place in
art that mathetics in science. All
other sciences are bound among them
selves, and it's impossible to possess
one of them not knowing the others
while mathematics stand alone in per-
lection; she does not need any assist
ance from any other science. The
same thing is exactly true with music.
She is entirely independent, and every
body can learn her perfectly, not hav-
ing any knowledge in any other science
or art.
How far this affirmation is true, it
can be convinced with the well known
TACT that on every step we can see
wonder children, that are famous as
music virtuosos, yet in all other
branches of art, we cannot find cele-
DRAFTED artists among children.
Certainly, a general education and
development is likewise very import
ant for music, but this is only for
composers, who procure new musical
works., or. for instrumental virtuosos
with an original creative spirit, that
produce new effects, new means how
1 to express on their instruments the
most secret feelings that the piece OF
art contain hidden, that they are play
/ ing.
( For all these musical creative spirits
general education is not quite neces-
sary; for that musical intelligence
alone is only necessary, and every
body can obtain them. That the gen
eral saying is, Il am a judge on Mu-
sic" sounds to us sometimes laugh
! able, but this proves clear that people
feel instructive that the ability to mu-
sic is a general innate one, just like
on judgement everybody considers him
self as wise.
Music everlastingly served US, and
at the present time serves us as a
bridge, that unites the material with
the spiritual, the earthly with the