Caricature; wit and humor of a nation in picture, song and story . into pool)— Help ! Gurgle, splosh I Glub, A Musical Education in a Nutshell By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS THERE was, some years ago, a writer upon musicaltopics in a German periodical who gave a cleverlycomprehensive method by which the musically un-educated should be able to detect whether or not the com-position to which they were listening should rank as amasterpiece. If the music goes 1-2-3-hop-hop-hop, or1-2-3-boom-boom-boom, said he, you may depend uponit that you are listening to unmitigated rubbish. Butwhen you hear music that
Caricature; wit and humor of a nation in picture, song and story . into pool)— Help ! Gurgle, splosh I Glub, A Musical Education in a Nutshell By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS THERE was, some years ago, a writer upon musicaltopics in a German periodical who gave a cleverlycomprehensive method by which the musically un-educated should be able to detect whether or not the com-position to which they were listening should rank as amasterpiece. If the music goes 1-2-3-hop-hop-hop, or1-2-3-boom-boom-boom, said he, you may depend uponit that you are listening to unmitigated rubbish. Butwhen you hear music that sounds as if a number of well-arranged noteswere stuck into abarrel and energet-ically stirred aboutlike a sort of har-monious oat mealporridge, then youmay assume that itis a fugue, and atonce compose yourfeatures into anexpression of pro-found , later on, youfancy that thenotes are droppedon the floor, andfrom time to timeasserting them-selves again in aquiet, dreamy sortof way, then thepiece is probably anocturne; and noc-turnes, as you are. HIS WEDD Never will I marry—I am wed-ded to my art. Art is my wife, hetold his friends. probably aware, are very high-class music the notes seem to arrive in truck-loads, and eachtruck contains a different sort from the one that haspreceded it, and when the series of vans appears to takean unreasonable length of time to pass a ^iven point,then the masterpiece is doubtless a symphony, and thesymphony is the greatest musical creation yet producedby the masters of music. Finally, when it seems as ifthe notes had been tumbled down helter-skelter, then vigorously shoveledup into a heap, andblown into the airwith a dynamitecartridge, that is arhapsody; and therhapsody is, on thewhole, the mostpopular variety ofgood music ex-tant. The writerof the above doubt-less lived too soonto continue and addto his formulae thefurther assertionthat if the notesbring to you thatfeeling of lassitudewhich conjures upvisions of
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