12 PAGES A -------- YEAR 84. NO. 174 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY. JULY 27, 1917 Easy Terms and on Approval You cannot buy more in the way of a musical instrument for the price. It is better value than any "talking machine" at anywhere near its price, Easy Terms $1 12 for this COLUMBIA GRAFONOLA 5 * 'C. W. LINDSAY, I4d., Kingston. AR SR AN IO The Telgmann School . of Music. Piano, violin and other stringed Instruments; Elocution and Dra- matic Art, © Summer papils may begin at any date, Terms on ap- plication. 216 Frontenac Street. Phone 1610. Possibly as 'many as seventy min ers perished in an explosion at one of the Dominion Coal Company's mines at New Waterford, €.B,, Lieut.~Col. G. H. Williats says there is room for Canadian recruit- ing in the United States. | Pianos and Homes. An American piano manufacturer declares that in the United States in recent times there has been.a great increase in the sale of Grands of va- rious types. The Baby and the Miniature styles have become deserv- edly popular not only because of their uniformly good tone, but be- cause they lend themselves to home decoration Musicians may not care | to'admit it, but the fact remains that { pianos are sometimes Bought because {of their looks rather than because of | their sound. The non-musical par- rents who have determined to give {their children a chance for a musi- cal education are somewhat recon- i ciled to the expenditure for a good | instruinent if the Parlor looks the better because of their investment. | Fortunately that attitude of mind | does not persist, especially after the | children become competent musi- | clans. The value of the upright no one can deny, especially in these times of small houses. Its shape | spells convenience. But the shape] {of the Grand with its flowing lines| {epells Art, | | Music and Anatomy. Some lovers of music are begin-| | ning to grow weary-at the insistence] jof some singing masters upon the structure of the vocal organs. Since Manuel Garcia invented the laryn- gyscope many thousands of his suc- cessors have believed it imcumbent ugan them to fill their minds with itomical Uetail and to explain to the" last cell, every organ of the throat, If knowledge of 'anatomy en- abled men to sing( the throat spe- cialists in the hospitals would have {all the Opera roles. Read the fol- lowing instruction from a "vocal" | instructdr, and shudder: "When the | ericoid cartilage is held in position | by the styloipharyngei and sterno- | thyroidcles, the sterno-hyoid mus- cles draw the thyroid. cartilage down over the cricoid, and the vocal cords being fixed to stationary points at their posterior ends, and to the mov- able thyrid at theif anterior ends, be- { come stretched with the down-swing- ing thyroid, while the erico-thyroid muscles becoming engaged, contract and in so doing close the crico-thy- roid niche, and hold the vocal cords in a stretched, breath-resisting con- dition. Should the cricoid move downward with the thyroid, the swinging 'action will be missing, and cord-stretching, proportionately lacking; while, should the thyrid and cricold move upwards together, the tensifig action will be completely re- versed, and the vocal cords remain unstretched" That is & fine explanation, for a medical college, Its relation to a singing studio ig not so clear. It that method of instruction were ap- plied to the art of running how many half-milers would it develop? Im- agine an athletic trainer giving a lec- ture on the cell-tissue of the anterior muscles of the left hind leg. Or, to make the parallel musical, imagine a plano-teacher giving a lecture on the seven bones of the human wrist--if seven be the correct number. Singing, like every other human activity, is learged by imitation. It is the same in the learning of lan- guages, thoroughly all the Grammar rules of French or Italian is unable to utter a single sentence correctlv because he has been too timid to practise or because he has not been accustomed to hearing the language spoken, The schoolmaster who began the study of French by describing in revolting de- tail the mechanism of speech would be the laughing stock of his' neigh- borhood, Yet we regard the sing- ing-anatomists with respect--wheth- er they produce good pupils or not. We ay without concerning our- selves about the actin of the invol- untary muscles which make breath- ing possible. In like manner should we sing. Perhaps if pupils were taught to recognize good vowel tones when properly produced and then stimu- lated to self-criticism and imifation we would hdve fewer half-baked sing- ers, Mascaeni"s New Opera. | With the scene laid in Holland and Paris taking place in the year 1853, "Lodoletta," the new opera. by Mas- cagni, has been given its first stage performance, This took place in Rome just thirty-seven years after this same composer created a name for himself in the same city with his Cavalleria Rusticana. The opera was produced under the direction of the composer himself and it won great praise from those who antici- pated the work with keen expecta- tion. ° The end Mascagni had in view in writing Lodoletta is shown in an interview with the author, who said "In writing Lodoletta, I have de- sired that the music should produce +a sweet sense of comfort, and a re- storing virtue for the moral life of humanity, passing as it is through the , dramatics'period of the present war. Therefore. in this opera, look only for the simple intention of doing good, and I.am confident that the spirit of the public will be in a condition to appreciate this intention for every- where we see signs of a tendency back to purer things and to the hum ble joys of the domestic hearth." State-Alded Music. It is impossible to follow the trend of musical thought in Great Britain, United States and Canada as reflacted in the musical press without discov- uring a marked tendency to advocate a greater place for statesaided mu- sic in the life of the nation. In the American Republic they have much otf it, though much more is wanted. In Canada we are behind the times in this respect, In Britain a plea is frequently made for a. greater recog- nition of music on the part of the gov- ernment. As typical of the feeling in many quarters in the Motherland, there might be quoted this extract from a letter to the press by a Kirkcaldy mu- sician: '"fhe Prime Minister has ap- pointed two committées to enquire into the position of science and mod- ern languages in our national system of education. Reform i's much need- ed 'in this respect and doubtless 'a Many a man who knows' measure will be achieved. There are other constituents of a modern edu- cation, and music as the most impor- tant of the arts by far, also requires consideration. What then of our national education? Ts the govern- ment to stand aloof in this and al- lpw it to languish for want of official direction and encofiragement? Not long ago the government spent some £70,000 on a single picture upon which a few favored visitors may gaze, while recently a few hundreds were grudged towards the support of the Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music. This is a state of Magters which no friend of music an who has the highest interests of the nation at heart.can contemplate with- out dismay. . At present we have no government support of musical edu- cation worth speaking of, beyond the instruetion in elementary singing in the Boaryd Schools. "We have only to compare our- selves with other countries in these matters to see our deficiencies," High vs. Low Voice Controversy, We have it from a professor of science that by actual and delicate measurements he has concluded that the baritone singer uses far more en- ergy than the.tenor, and that the bass uses mone than either baritone or ten- or, With the difference of ranges in voices there is a variation in the perceptage, byt generally speaking this professor declares that the tenor uses only from one-seventh to one- sixteenth of the lung power used by the baritone or bass. The difference between the force used by the contraltq and the go- prano Is dlso quite marked, and the low contralto uses at least ten times the force of the thrilling soprano. The scientist in question gives by way of explanation that the tenor or so- prano brings the vecal cords close to- gether and keeps the edges only vi- brating by the emission of air. The bass or contralto "leaves the space between the cotds wider open and has to vibrate much more of the mem- branes to a considerably "larger amount of. air required. These statements, however, are not ANowed to pass unchallenged by the London paper "Music." This paper asserts that it may be plausible en- {ough from the view point of the pro- fessor but to the singer it merely il- lustrates that foolish things may 'be sald and dole 1d the name of so-call- ed science. It says the singer knows that much more intensity and breath pressure is necessary in producing high notes than in low ones, and tho same is trne of the specially good lung capacity needed by the posses- #ors of high 'voices, breath-pressiire tbeing the main essential. The idea of singing at all with one-seventh to one-sixteenth of the lung power is ridiculous, The loss of one-half of one's lung power, it is said, would prevent the emission of a well-produced high note. It is added that the professor may have measured the voice cords correctly, but he appears to be quite unaware of the scope of the science of acoustics, - LARGEST STOCK OF TALK- ING MACHINES BETWEEN ime and flows. a human being, the tone-arm would represent . 'which no public-spirited man, A toast to the Violin. It is doubtful if any instrument commands as much affection and care from its devotees as the violin Certainly no other surpasses it. The organ occupies a large place in the organist's heart but when he leaves the church he needs must leave his organ. The violin goes with him. It is kept in his home. It is a home instrument as well as a concert in- strument. A fine tribute to the vio- lin is contained in this splendidly worded toast which has been we- ceived, and which is understood to have appeared in the Musician over the signature of Ralph Wylie: Miracle of color, form and sound ---in such delicacy framed that the thumb of a child might splinter the frail body to ruim, yet artfully plan- ned to bear, through long ages, such strains as would bring a strong man low. Stained with colors that rival the play of leaf-filtered sunlight on forest pools. Warm reddish hues, fine gold, rich brown, half shrouding its grains in mystery, through hues interchanging--softly flaming to each vagrant, shifting ray of light. Ri- valing the opal in variety and, like the mind of a maid, gently tricking the cold gaze of the wnalyst's eye. Chiseled in the symmetry Phidias|| knew--given more lines of beauty than lve in the rose--a mere box-- infinitely simple, yet complex be- yond the power of Helmholtz to com- pute. Jewel worthy the setting of fair woman's hand---task not to be conquered in ten men's iives. Out-compassing the voice and out- speeding it, as the blue swallow dis- tances the slow-winging crow. At- tuning itself, equal ease, to dancing, dreaming," laughter, love. Vaicing the spirit of battle and chase or caressing our years with the ten- dernesses that only sweethearts of twenty know. Moulded slowly by deft, firm hande; pondered deeply and long by skillful brain; nursed into being by soul loyal to truth, and by heart long stilled ere vindi- cation could come. Now, mellow- @d by age like that spirit of youth that sometimes gleams from a wrink- led face, a lesson in fibres singing the songs of lives given ever to hope- ful trial. Voicing and waking all human woods save vanity, envy, Just or hate. Ofttimes abused ,yet patient withal and therefore triumphant; oft in- jured sore, yet healing again to sing us ever a sweeter song. Child: of heart's planning and Infinite care; of flashing inspiration and patient toil ---Iin's nearest approach' to the craft of God-- The Monarch of Music--Here's to the King. = "Nothing." the Word The Hague, July 27.--Theodore Wolff says in the Tageblatt it is easy to express in a single word what has ben accomplished in reforms of the German Empire, "and that word is 'nothing.' 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