New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-16
Rarbaric Instruments
And WOrdless Songs
The Vagarics of Mr.. Crangers Creative Talent-Ante-
diluvian and Ancient Greek Precursors of the
Genial Australian-Ihe Value of Rhythm
By II. (. KREHBIEL.

wv HEN Mr. Percy Granger essayed to make lullaby out OF
w the tune TO which Negro Ministries sing I'll bet
my money the bob tailed nag" (otherwsc Campown
Races he drew on the dnneroom cupboard for supplementary
orchestral Instruments the symphonic band of Beethoven
offering him all the varieties of mbre that he cravcd for He
ont his mothers tumber tuned them pouring
into them and made them sing pounding them or rubbing
them with mostened fingers There nothing novel about this
device though the purposes which put Ben
franklin improved the musical glasses for which Beethoven
wrote least piece Of music Long after Bccthovcns time
we knew Methodist preachers who used play in
the Granger style those Sunday fOrenoons when he
permitted stay home from church That before Mr.
Granger born but there picture this page which
printed in book the year which Columbus discovered
America which shows Pythagoras who fourished $50 years be
IRE the Christian doing the thing and also employing
other persuasive devices OF which Mr. Granger Unfortunately
d Associated with Pytagoas the northwest of the
Charts anteduvan gentleman seventh descent from Adam
bsng who playing anvil chorus such as Mr.
Granger will write for the Boston Peace Jubilee prOpaby
MI Granger loves exotic rhythms and instruments The
oncertna avorte instrument OF the naive English ok-mu
clan when the composer made OF an old Eng
Gsh iokong for the few he rein
forced his band with guitar and couple OF cOncertlnas once
100 Mr. Granger put effect notion that takes chorus and
brass band adequately tell how English lass feels when she
Seventeen Come Sunday Only lately recall he conceived
the idea getting orchestra to hum ittenot much; only
enough to give expression the peasurbe emotions which
Young lover while walking up and down the easside plat
form on an English railway which train gong north IS
bnonr his sweetheart 1t wasn't be full grown hum but
inst sort of embryonic immature halfcdged hum under
stand hunlet he called it. To help make this neoteric hum
addition to 20 playing the ordinary orchestral instruments
and himself pianofoe OF the biggest kind he had nearly
dozen men pounding they work IN boiler factory
On drums and bells and steel bars and the ceesta and the
marmba nabmba and the Xylophone and other per-
cu,sive things the OF which have forgotten
Yet all OF who heard the suite which he called In Nut
shell had haousy good time and enjoyed the music because
with Mr. Granger had gotten under civilized skins and
stirred I'D the prmeva savage latent within us Alter all we
thought despite love for weodered series OF musical tones
(toC
eodered series musical heard simultaneously lwnch
used to be harmony until Schonberg and Stavnky and their
tribe came to tell us that the need not be musical or well
ordered but might Just we'll be hggedyPggedy like the
pieces OF gsaw puzze respond more quickly to du
beat than to any kind OF ascvou pleasing the tonal WorG
That's the primitive the prmorda human atom Whch
reacts to conclusion and repercusson readily as dd
when the rumble OF anediuvan thunder prompted us TO
,be socrstious fear which was religion hyhnlca
poundne and rhyhmica physical movements Herein lies e
explanation OF the fact that the maker OF catchy raSte @
Tor the oar multitude more artist than the creator OF
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