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Whyland more considerately. She means to arrange quite a nice little programme, and it will be no disadvantage to you to take part in it. Mr. Bond will read one or two of his travel-sketches, and I may do a little something myself a bit in the way of music, perhaps." "H'm," said Abner. "Travel-sketches?" He ignored the promise of music. "With folk-songs on the violin."
She was only twenty at the time, and he was only twenty-one. He had about a hundred and fifty pounds a year of his own and nothing else but his very considerable personal attractions. He had no profession: he earned nothing. But he talked of literature and music, he had a passion for old folk-music, collecting folk-songs and folk-dances, studying the Morris-dance and the old customs.
It is a part of the new spirit in Romanticism to point the way for the people of Germany to go forward to leave mysticism and dreams, and to grapple with the life around them. This is the achievement upon which their greatest fame will always rest. It is one of the best collections of folk-songs and popular ballads in any language, and has been of the greatest influence upon Germany.
The young Polish marvel of the day Paderewski had been drawn in, and his renderings of Chopin's finest work were to provide the bulk of the rolls. Connie's dear old Polish teacher, himself a composer, was at work on a grouping of folk-songs from Poland and Lithuania the most characteristic utterance of a martyred people.
However simple the music or the words, the effect will be well worth the little additional trouble. Our last consideration is that of the songs to be chosen to learn. Little children should rarely sing anything but unison songs. Folk-songs, such as those edited by Cecil Sharp and others, and, for the very little ones, traditional nursery rhymes and game songs are the best.
It should have been mentioned before this that the very difficult task of reducing the old songs to modern characters and requirements, and harmonizing them, has been most admirably done by McFarren, who has thus made intelligible and available what would otherwise be valuable only as curiosities. Folk-Songs. Selected and edited by John Williamson Palmer, M.D. Illustrated with Original Designs.
That shows how Wagner, like most Germans, was incapable of grasping the real originality of French music, and how he saw only its externals. The best way to find out the musical characteristics of a nation is to study its folk-songs. He was fitted in every way for the part, even by his deficiencies and his ignorance. His classical education in music was incomplete.
This was not good for the trenches. ... Now I realized that they were talking of Chautonville, the singer, the master of our folk-songs. We had heard of him along the line how he had come running home to us out of Germany at the last moment in July literally pelted forth, changed from an idol into an enemy and losing a priceless engagement-series on the Continent.
The literary romanticists did a great deal to encourage patriotism among the Germans in the beginning of the nineteenth century by disclosing to the German people the wealth of their legendary lore and the beauty of their folk-songs. The circumstances which established the artistic kinship between Von Weber and Wagner, to which I have alluded, was a direct fruit of this patriotism.
During the last half-century many hundreds of the native melodies sung by the Russian country people for generations past have been collected and written down by different musicians Balakireff, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Prokoudin, and Lisenko amongst others. The variety of these folk-songs is astonishing.
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