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The Forerunners Author(S): Vernon Blackburn Source: the Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol The Forerunners Author(s): Vernon Blackburn Source: The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 43, No. 713 (Jul. 1, 1902), pp. 455-457 Published by: Musical Times Publications Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3369666 Accessed: 12-05-2016 05:16 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Musical Times Publications Ltd. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular This content downloaded from 155.69.24.171 on Thu, 12 May 2016 05:16:31 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms THE MUSICAL TIMES.-JuLY I, 1902. 455 Thomas Tallis. Some of the quaint designations For kind help rendered in the preparation of of the pieces may be given :- these inexhaustive remarks on the King's Music Sermone Blando. Library, thanks are due to Mr. Barclay Squire, Filliday Floutes me. and in no small degree to Sir Walter Parratt, The Galliard to Doct. Bulle's Fantastick Pavin. Master of the King's Musick, for his kindness in The Quadren Pavin. many ways. The Galliard to it. The next article of this series will treat of A Fancy for a Double Orgaine. music in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, which Docter Bulle's Jewell. is to celebrate its Quincentenary in the month of October next. There is also ' A Catch of 9 parts in one,' set to the words ' Let us goe pray for John Cook's soul.' * THE FORERUNNERS. A fine folio volume in the autograph of Henry Purcell arouses special interest. An old manu- The fate of all pioneers belongs to somewhat script catalogue of the Royal Music Library, of a tragedy, no less in art than in active life. compiled about the year 178o, says of this book: Amerigo was the forerunner of Columbus; and ' This volume is Purcell's original score of although his name has been perpetuated in the several of his anthems and odes, and was pre- histories as the man who gave his name to the sented by Dr. Philip Hayes.' This magnificent New World, the romance of Columbus has, tome, which bears upon its first page the nevertheless, occupied most of the ideas of signature of ' E. H. Purcell, grandson of the human kind in its remembrance of the great author of this Book,' is entitled ' A Score discovery. Now, Art is a more remote province Booke containing severall anthems wth Sym- than a mere geographical conquest; and it is phonies.' The anthems are at one end, and therefore most reasonable (though infinitely at the other are ' Welcome Songs and other pathetic) to find that in art the cruelty which songs, all by my father,' as the only surviving attends the career of the ancestry of things son of the composer therein recorded. Among seems even more acute than that which goes the anthems, all of which have accompaniments side by side with mere physical discoveries. for strings, is ' My heart is inditing' (8 voices), Copernicus, for example (to take a scientific 'one of ye anthems sung at ye coronation of instance), discovered the relations between James II.' Two anthems have obbligati for two planetary movements .and cube-roots. Surely violins. We find in this book such a direction as that was a most amazing matter to diagnose. ' the triple of the symphony again,' and as a The man in the street, however, knows nothing title, 'Symphony Wth 2 Trumpits, 2 Violins, a of planetary movements, or of cube-roots; yet Tenur and Bass.' The inscriptions on some of he knows everything about the laws of gravitation. the ' Welcome Songs,' &c., speak for themselves. Mark then the sequel. Sir Isaac Newton discovered the laws of gravitation from the data A Welcome Song for his Royal Highness on his return furnished by Copernicus. Newton remains for from Scotland, yeare 1682. ever as the ideal of human genius; but how A Welcome Song for his Majesty on his return from few remember the influences which provided Newmarket, Oct. ye 21, 1682. him with his material ? One may say, of course, A Latine Song made upon St. Cecilia, whose day that every locus represented by an equation of is commemorated yearly by all Musitians, made in the second degree is either a parabola, a ye year 1683. hyperbola, or so forth; but of what effect is Sighs for our late Sov'raiyn King Charles ye 2d. that to the average man ? He skims the words A Song that was perform'd at Mr. Maidwell's, a over; he yawns ; he mutters 'pedantry'; and he schoolmaster, on ye 5th of August, 1689, ye words by one never suspects that what are to him the common- of his scholars. place things of life are the outcome of such cabalistic terms. Next to the Handel autograph scores this Music is the counterpart of mathematics in so Purcell autograph volume is one of the most many points that it is not wonderful that it, too,, precious in the Royal Music Library. has had an ancestry which is largely buried in The 3,000 volumes of which, roughly speaking, neglect. Music may be described as mathematics the Library consists include many modern publi- transformed by a fairy-wand into a figure of cations - e.g., complete editions of the great glory. An ellipse made silvern, two straight classical composers, and an entire set of lines converted into 'golden rules '-you might Wagner's operas in full score, a most valuable continue the list indefinitely-but herein lies the acquisition; thus the ancient and modern pro- essence of its effectiveness. And who were the ductions of the art find a home in this Royal forerunners ? Who were they who snatched collection. Many of the books, presentation from the night some principles of art, and some copies of feeble effort, are, however, of little such sense of fine combination, as in the end has value, notwithstanding their gorgeous bindings. produced the magnificent body of latter-day music which we recognize as fulfilling in a * Full descriptions of these and other Virginal Collections of Music, peculiar sense the emotion of the time ? One asks from the able pen of Mr. W. Barclay Squire, will be found in Grove's ' Dictionary of Music and Musicians,' vol. iv., p. 305, et seq. the question in vain. You look abroad and find This content downloaded from 155.69.24.171 on Thu, 12 May 2016 05:16:31 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 456 THE MUSICAL TIMES.-JULY I, 1902. only such traces as persuade you of no more than its dim and faint records, had some such musical their mere existence. You are in a historical vitality, and that the most wonderful nation of mood, haply; and you read with glow and past days compiled its qualities in a musical admiration' Summer is icumen in.' Then you outburst of thought. How great a forerunner ask, somewhat dismally: ' Whence came this is here ! Here is a nation teaching Judaism particular art ?' Here is clearly no forerunner. how to sing. ' In Exitu Israel de Egypto '-the The thing seems complete in itself. It represents hymn which has been termed 'Modus Peregrinus' no beginning. Its complex beauty, its most -was surely learned from the nation who under- definite self-assertion, make no appeal whatever stood the weariness of the flesh, who knew well to the future. It is a summary, not a timid how brief were the days of this life, and who, suggestion; it is rather posterity than ancestry. rather than die for ever, made mummies of men, It has had a forerunner all its own, and yet is a and kept dead things in an inanimate condition forerunner itself. of existence, sooner than relinquish the thought It is only after such a revelation that one of resurrection. And there is no doubt that begins to search the facts that lie actually under Judaea, the persistent, learned the Egyptian lore; one's eyes. (By such a method, it may be said, there is no doubt that the chants and the songs and by it alone, have all the great scientific which the Jews have handed on to us came from discoveries been made.) Treading cautiously, Egypt. Here was indeed a forerunner of the you watch in your advance the panoramic figures world, as I have just now said; and I fancy that of Time as they stepped vividly in their own day. in this modern civilization of ours it will not be Here is Gluck. He is not attractive at a easy to find so curious an example of the first glance; he has no particular love for temporal ancestry of things which fulfil, at the strangers; he is curiously inaccessible. There present day, a complete vision of an Art. approaches one Dr. Burney, who has braved I have elaborated as far as is necessary the extraordinary perils by land and by water in principle which seems to run through all artistic order to see the great composer. He plays endeavour. That endeavour must be preceded 'Orfeo' to the English musician; and then- by a paternal effort.
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