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But or that the poet should set himself to under at that point they passed from the region of stand the needs of the composer, which he physiology to the region of psychology, and Prof. McKendrick, of Eng can easily do without sacrificing his art-ship. H land, remarked in a recent lee- it was there they must find the explanation of The two would then work together to a com how they had such glorious feelings when ture that it was one of the greatest general mon end, which in itself would be a greater they listened to the music of the great com izations of modern physics that in the world end than any to which either might attain by posers. there were many kinds of movements, some himself. of which were patent to the ordinary senses, There is another aspect, too, of this song SONG WRITING. a.nd some were so delicate as to require spe question which requires a few words. Even cial methods for their apprehension. In - ~ T is generally held that many great songs when we have the perfect song, we still addition to the movements which caused the have been given to the world, but, in require-the perfect singer. We demand sensation of light, sound, and the other well spite of Schubert, who in a few of his brains, intuition, dramatic power, emotion in known sense phenomena, there were probably songs has done wonderful things, and our modern singers of modern songs. To be many movements in the physical world of Schumann, who really had a finer idea able to sing a melody smoothly, to overcome which people were not directly conscious, as of the union and poetry of music, and Robert easily the most awkward intervals, is not there were no sense organs for these move Franz, who too often cut the knot by making sufficient for our purpose. We must have ments to act upon. There was no special his vocal music so subservient to the words something more than mere voice; there must organ for the reception of electric waves, and that it is sometimes colorless and uninterest be a human soul behind it, or the result is consequently people were not cognizant of the ing, there is still room for the assertion that incomplete. The composer cannot notate existence of these waves except by special song writing is in its infancy, says a writer in changes of voice color; he cannot, without and indirect methods. The lecturer then a London paper. Wagner complained that in cramping the singer of intelligence, write down went on to explain the action of the tuning every little shade of expression-almost as fork, and the method that was adopted to reasonably might one expect a dramatist to show graphically the vibrating motion of the notate every change of expression in the voice fork and to measure the wave lengths. He for the different sentiments in the speeches also gave the result of combining waves of set down for his actors. No; the finest song different lengths, and of varying the phases. ultimately rests for its completeness with the The three characteristics of a musical sound singer. were pitch, loudness, and quality. Pitch was raised by increasing the rapidity of the vibra HE AMERICAN HOME PIANO. tions, loudness by increasing the amplitude of the vibrations, and quality by the addition of Charles M. Skinner contributes partial tones. He pointed out that it was not a readable essay on this subject to necessary to hear a tone for, say, a second, to T the Philadelphia Saturday Eve recognize it.