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Updated: July 13, 2025
He did not use much of the folk-songs born of our fields and waters, woods and mountains, and the hearts of our forefathers who lived free and did not dream of smoky cities and stinking slums; though folk-song shaped and modified his melodies. In himself he had the spirit of Nature, and it made his music come forth as it makes the flowers blow.
In the foreground, beside the trail, a wolf-dog, bristling with frost, thrust a long snout heavenward and mourned. "Must I, then, must I, then, now leave this town And you, my love, stay here?" Schwabian Folk-song.
By placing one end of his bow at the corner of his open mouth and tapping the string with an arrow, the Yana could make sweet music. It sounded like an Aeolian harp. To this accompaniment Ishi sang a folk-song telling of a great warrior whose bow was so strong that, dipping his arrow first in fire, then in the ocean, he shot at the sun.
As the vocal aria was the result of the simple folk-song combined with the intense craving of song's master molders for individual expression, so instrumental music striving to walk alone, without support from words, gained vital elements through the discovery that various phases of mental disposition might be indicated by alternating dance tunes differing in rhythm and movement, according to Nature's own law of contrasts.
The former theme is a pretty illustration of what has already been said of Humperdinck's consistent devotion to the folk-song spirit in his choice of melodies.
The rejoicing has a big climax in the first folk-song of all, that now returns in full blast of horns against a united dance of strings and wood. The dread chords at last vanish, in the strings. It is very like an actual, physical end. There is no doubt that the composer here intends the death of Till, in face of the tradition.
"It is All Saints' Day," said Christophe. "The day when all are forgiven." Softly, so as not to wake the child, he sang a few bars of the old Schwabian folk-song: "... Fur die Zeit, wo du g'liebt mi hast, Da dank' i dir schon, Und i wunsch', dass dir's anders wo Besser mag geh'n...."
The minuet and trio are little, if at all, different from those of Emanuel Bach. The finale is generally a bit of a romp; the structural plan is that of the first movement, or a rondo. So much for the form. As for the music, it is, I say, free from counterpoint, and is more and more filled with the spirit of folk-song.
They were humming a soft folk-song, and one by one sank on to the grass beside the men; the evening twilight was in their hearts, and made their figures and voices as soft as a caress. But the men's mood was not a gentle one, and they preferred the bottle. Gustav walked about extemporizing on his concertina.
A folk-song sung by one of the people in the open air is an Alpine rose, upon the very Alps the Alpine horns are nothing but herbaria the soul of the national consciousness." But I said I did not know anything fine enough to sing to such great people.
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