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Picking up Kitty's banjo, he smote the strings uncertainly and half sang, half declaimed: "'With my Hya! Heeya! Heeya! Hullah! Haul! Oh, the green that thunders aft along the deck! Are you sick of towns and men? You must sign and sail again, For it's Johnny Bowlegs, pack your kit and trek! "By Jove! Kipling's right; nothing like a banjo, is there? Now then, Young Person, I'm with you.
But melodically the loss was enormous. We of this generation have by study to win back some small sense of the value and beauty of the intervals of the ancient scales, varying in each scale, a sense that was once free and common to everyone who knew anything of music at all. Purcell and his immediate predecessors and contemporaries came into what Hullah rightly called the "transition period."
He has been reproved for it by the eminent Hullah, who prettily alludes to it as a "defect" from which other music composed at the time suffers; but the truth is, you might as well call rhyme a "defect" of the couplet or the absence of rhyme a "defect" of blank verse. It is an integral part of the music, as inseparable as sound from tone, as atoms from the element they constitute.
"No greater book will ever be written upon music, and it will one day be recognized as the imaginative classic of that divine art." "Counterparts" and other tales soon followed. And about the same date she presented, anonymously, a volume of stories to the young daughter of Mr. John Hullah, of "Part Music" celebrity. The heading of each story was picked out in black and gold.
"What does Two Tails trumpet for?" said the young mule. "To show that he is not going any nearer to the smoke on the other side. Two Tails is a great coward. Then we tug the big gun all together Heya Hullah! Heeyah! Hullah! We do not climb like cats nor run like calves.
Four to a dozen other men carry some heavy building-stone or piece of machinery by running bamboo supports from the shoulders of the men behind to the shoulders of the men in front: you can see the constant, tortuous play of the muscles around each man's rigid backbone while the strained, monotonous, half-weird chorus, "Hy-ah! Hullah! Hee-ah!
Hullah had not risen into a power more enviable than that of kings, and given to every workman a free entrance into the magic world of harmony and melody, where he may prove his brotherhood with Mozart and Weber, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Great unconscious demagogue! leader of the people, and labourer in the cause of divine equality! thy reward is with the Father of the people!
On the king's appearance, the cheering was tremendous, regular British cheering, well led, succeeded by that which is not British, "three cheers and a tiger," but it was "Hi, hi, hi, hullah!"
It is needless; for louder and louder every moment swells up a sound which makes my heart leap into my mouth, and my mare into the air. Music? Well-beloved soul of Hullah, would that thou wert here this day, and not in St. Martin's Hall, to hear that chorus, as it pours round the fir-stems, rings against the roof above, shatters up into a hundred echoes, till the air is live with sound!
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