Science and Singing Author(s): Ernest George White Source: The Musical Times, Vol. 51, No. 812 (Oct. 1, 1910), pp. 648-649 Published by: Musical Times Publications Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/905995 Accessed: 26-11-2015 17:16 UTC

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THE TEMPO OF 'O REST IN THE LORD.' style, of which there is such a fine repertoire available, is within its own sphere, and appeals to the serious musician TO THE EDITOR OF 'THE MUSICAL TIMES. with force and energy, which can hardly be the case when listening to revised editions of heavily-scored orchestral SIR,-At importantperformances of the ' Elijah' for some works even the best of there seems to have been a of upon organs.-Faithfully yours, years past divergence opinion A. H. STEVENS. in regard to the tempo of the air 'O rest in the Lord.' The Chattisham, reminiscences of an old-stager like myself may, or may not, Ipswich. help to settle the matter. When Mendelssohn brought out the 'Elijah,' at ORGAN PROGRAMME. I was a chorister at and St. Birmingham, Trinity John's TO THE EDITOR OF 'THE MUSICAL TIMES.' Colleges, Cambridge, under Professor T. A. Walmisley. He knew Mendelssohn, and went to hear the oratorio; SIR,-I read Mr. Luther L. Jupp's letter with a pleasure with him went Mr. John Sutton (afterwards Sir John), that was enhanced by the courteous tone he adopted and by a wealthy Fellow-Commoner of Jesus College, and three the sincerity the revealing of his identity betokened. I do of our senior boys, Fred Smith, Robert Humm, and not think, however, that any good would come of a James Piper (I mention their names, as I think that two discussion. He accepts without reservation the con- of them are still living). They were all delighted with ventionalities I wrote against, and then argues from them as the 'Elijah,' and as soon as the vocal score and parts proven and established premises. He will perhapspardon my were published we had them at our practice-room at saying that he has missed the whole line of my argument Trinity and worked at them daily. I well remember that and (incidentally) the main feature of musical evolution before we sang 'He that shall endure,' Dr. Walmisley since the middle Beethoven, proof of this lying in such beckoned me to the pianoforte, saying, 'Here, Dan, boy, sentences as 'supposing the movements of the great sing this' (I could always read), and forthwith we went symphonies and sonatas of Beethoven were constructed through 'O rest in the Lord.' Years after I heard on the " unity " as against the " contrast " principle, would Miss Dolby sing it many times, with exactly the same they be so enjoyable?' It is evident that unity in a work swing that Walmisley had taught it to me. Later on of art is not the same to Mr. Jupp as it is to me. I think I heard my old friend James Coward play it at one of he will read my article in a different light when he realises his organ recitals at the Crystal Palace. It was encored, that the unity striven for is one of fundamental idea or and he played it again, and each time at the same tempo prevailing spirit, as in the Elgar Symphony or in the that Miss Dolby had sung it. first famous example-the C minor Symphony of Beethoven. There must be very many people who can remember No amount of change from Scherzo to Adagio can effect a Sainton-Dolby's rendering of her part in the 'Elijah.' break in an extended musical utterance when the composer She was a true artist, and always to be relied upon, and is struggling to thresh out all that the emotional idea holds for him; and in the same the of a concert in she never it so fast as ; = way unity pro- my opinion sang 72. gramme made up of small items should be preserved. But Mendelssohn may have intended that as an indication of the mean all this leads over the ground already covered in my essay, time, scarcely, I think, as a march time (i.e., in and there is no need to continue it. strict It has been and as an time). sung played excerpt I so many times that it began in consequence to be drawled. am, yours faithfully, On the other hand, when the whole oratorio is performed, I, Alcester Road, SYDNEYGREW. it is simply No. 31, but it must not be forgotten that Moseley, Birmingham. the words touch some of the tenderest chords of the human September 13, 1910. heart, and so require very delicate treatment. I think that - = 60 would be nearer the real time. MUSIC AT LYTHAM. Yours faithfully, TO THE EDITOR OF 'THE MUSICAL TIMES.' DANL. WILBERFORCE ROOTHAM, admirable article in the number Bristol SIR,-In your September Conductor, Madrigal Society. on the season's music on the Lancashire coast, 6, Ashgrove Road, your correspondent, while referring among other seaside towns Redland, Bristol. to did not mention the excellent band which IO, I9IO. Lytham, very September had been performing there for some seven weeks. This band was under the competent conductorship of Mr. Bell, and the selections given (over I30 items a week) were ORGAN AND ORCHESTRA. sufficiently varied to suit the musical tastes of all. Among the drawn be mentioned Handel, TO THE EDITOR OF 'THE MUSICAL TIMES.' composers upon may Haydn, Mozart, Wagner, Donizetti, Auber, Balfe, Bishop, SIR,-Mr. Lemare's article on 'The organ as an artistic Mendelssohn, Gounod, Nicolai, and Sullivan. The solo instrument' must prove in the main instructiveand enjoyable playing of Miss Annie Kirkman (a violinist of exceptional reading to all lovers of the king of instruments. There will ability, who led the first violins), was greatly enjoyed. be many, too, who will endorse his opinion that the study of Her playing of Vieuxtemps's 'Fantasia caprice' was orchestral music by the advanced player 'will create a marked by brilliancy of execution and rare insight, the striving for the perhaps unattainable, as far as the organ is band supporting her with excellent restraint. The per- concerned.' Surely the organ is one thing and the orchestra formances were greatly enjoyed, both by residents and something totally different. The orchestralwriter committing visitors, and it is hoped that the Lytham Council will again his ideas to paper is not looking through the spectacles of engage Mr. Bell (the conductor) for next season. the organist: his is a very different conception, both as Yours faithfully, regards tone-colour and the scope, variety and compass of Wallingford, HAMPDENA. MINTON his instruments with their peculiar technique. It is the age Lytham. of the specialist, and for the organ and orchestra to encroach one upon the domain of the other is to leave an unsatisfactory SCIENCE AND SINGING. the ears of an musical impression upon ever-increasing TO THE OF 'THE MUSICAL TIMES.' public who can appreciate the difference between the two; EDITOR for here again, to quote Mr. Lemare, 'instead of copying DEAR SIR,-Whilst offering you my best thanks for the another man's, he (the organist) will paint his own picture. large amount of valuable space which you devoted in your He will be not merely receptive, but creative.' Yes, last issue to a criticism of ' Science and Singing,' I trust that quite so; and many when listening, even those most in justice to the work you will very kindly permit me space capable of doing so, have the feeling that it is very much for a few remarks upon the matter. his own picture, and his own creation. The organ is a The writer of the article says: 'he contradicts his king in its own province, and it need not become a rival statement in p. 9, in which he says " I now know and teach where it will come off second best. Music of the orchestral that the vocal cords are not sound-producersat all," whilst

This content downloaded from 141.233.160.21 on Thu, 26 Nov 2015 17:16:57 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE MUSICAL TIMES.-OCTOBER I, I9IO. 649 on p. 54, referringto the same matter, he says," I would not flow of melody, which was apparent in his compositions- like to make such a positive statement . . .. it may one hymn he will be especially known by was 'The roseate be possible for the vocal cords to produce sound."' The hues of early dawn,' that his friend Sir Joseph Barnby quotation with respect to p. 9 is correct, but on p. 54 I am introduced into 'The hymnary.' His single chants were of a not referringto the same matter. On p. 9 I am writing of high order-one is generally used at St. Paul's Cathedral in what I teach; it is therefore quite clear that vocal tone is the Burial Service. Canon Hervey will be regretted by a under consideration. On p. 54 the question is asked, ' Do large circle of musical friends. He was a member of the you then maintain that the vocal cords cannot produce tone governing body of the Royal College of Music. of any sort ?' The reply is: 'I would not like to make such a positive statement.' The word any is in the volume itself On August 26, at Goring, Bucks, through heart failure, printed in italics, so that the thinking person should see that Mr. HERBERT L. FULKERSON,an esteemed teacher of vocal tone is not referredto, but merely a noise, or a sound singing and a delightful vocalist. An American by birth, of some kind. I then point out that a considerable sound a native of Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., he had chosen for can be made by blowing upon a blade of grass placed many years to make his home in England. Coming to this between the thumbs, but no one would look upon a blade of country in I878, he entered the Royal Academy of Music, grass as a musical instrument. So, although a noise or studying singing with Signor Flori, and later with Signor sound of some sort can probably be forced from the vocal Randegger, and finishing with a course of study with cords, this does not in the least prove that they are Madame Des Granges in Paris. In 1883 he accepted the responsible for vocal tone. I think that when the whole of Precentorship of Regent Square PresbyterianChurch, Grays these two statements is considered, and not merely scraps of Inn Road (known as the 'Scotch' Church, and from the them, it will be quite evident that I am not guilty of any pulpit of which was delivered Irving's famous 'Gift of contradiction in this respect. tongues' oration). For many years this was one of the few I could point out other errors in the article, but I fear to London churches where there was no organ accompaniment. trespass on your space. Your reviewer is quite positive Mr. Fulkerson soon made his impression on the congre- that the accepted theory of tone being produced by the gational singing. This post he still held at the time of his approximationof the vocal cords and their varying tension is death. He had also shared in the recent revision of 'Church correct. I am equally positive that it is incorrect. It is of Praise.' His unswerving uprightness of character and course exceedingly difficult to make experiments on human many lovable qualities endeared him to a large circle of beings, but it is comparatively easy to do so with birds. I friends. suggest therefore that each of us shall take a cockerel. friend shall have his bird killed, and then, Dr. FRANZXAVER HABERL, at , on September My fault-finding Born on at Oberellenbach in Lower taking out the wind-pipe and larynx, endeavour to produce 7. April 12, I840, tone therefrom. Should he succeed-and he seems to , Dr. Haberl, who occupied the position of principal pin of the Kirchenmusikschule in was considered his faith to such experiments-I will admit that I have not Regensburg, taken sufficient 'trouble to and consider.' Should he, unrivalled as an authority on Roman music. stop He became known his a fail, my bird shall be killed, and then with the vocal cords widely by 'Magister choralis,' wide and in a state of absolute I will theoretical and practical treatise on the . In apart, collapse, a issued the nineties he Marco endeavour to produce a crow from the dead fowl. Should I publication during proved succeed, I think it will be evident that there is Antonio Ingegneri (c. 1752) to be the author of the considerably hebdomadae until then more science in my work than my friendly opponent has 'Responsoria sanctee,' generally been able to detect, and that his mental vision should have considered the work of Palestrina. The deceased, who held the title of 'Geistlicher did excellent editorial had a little more adjustment before he took up his pen to Rat,' write his criticism 'Science and work in connection with the complete editions of the works upon Singing.' of Palestrina and di Lasso. Yours very truly, Orlando Broadwood's ERNESTGEORGE WHITE. Studios, of He was the son of Conduit Street, W. Mr. ALLANMACBETH, Glasgow. Mr. Norman Macbeth, R.A. His musical studies were carried on in , principally at Leipzig, where he was a pupil of Richter, Reinecke, and Jadassohn. As an organist he succeeded to several important posts in Scotland, and on Obituary. coming to Glasgow became principal of the Athenaeum School of Music and the Glasgow College of Music. His compositions include the cantata 'The land of glory' and a We regret to record the following deaths: number of smaller works. The Rev. FREDERICK ALFRED on JOHN HERVEY, Mr. INGRA ADAM, husband of Madame Amina August 8, agedad sixty-four years. The late Rev. Canon Augusy, sV.O. Canonof Norwch and formerly Rector Goodwin, the well-known pianist of the London Trio. He Hervey, C.V.O., Canon of Norwich formerly and related His Majesty was the son of Judgeudge Adams, of Pennsylvania, and related of Sandringham, Domestic Chaplain to His present Majesty to two former American Presidents. Mr. Adams took and to His late Majesty King Edward VII., was an amateur to two in connection He had been a keen interestfreret in micalmusical affairs, especially in connection musician in its fullest and truest sense. He had been the musical career of his wife. devoted to music all his life. When a boy at Marlborough and assisted at the College he sang in the choir, occasionally M HENRY LAWSON, a well-known and highly respected organ. On going to Cambridge he threw himself heart and soul into t s tudy ofhe music, and studied thheoryunderuder the Liverpool musician, who led the Societa Armonica for over soul into the study of music, and studied theory and was for one of the first violins influence of Dr. Garrett. He seldom missed the twenty years, and was for many years one of the first violins inspiring influence of Garrett. in the Philharmonic Society's orchestra. He died at the meetings of the Fitzwilliam Musical Society, which inn Phoeighty-five.e 'the seventies' was the principal Society of its kind in the a University of Cambridge,whilst in vacation he studied under Mr. EDWARDARTHUR HARVEY, president of the Bristol Dr. E. J. Hopkins at the Temple Church. At Sandringham, Madrigal Society. He died at his residence in Victoria where he was rector for nearly thirty years, he did much to Square, Clifton, on September 8, at the age of seventy-one. improve the choir, and never if he could help it missed a He filled the office of honorary secretary for thirty years, practice. When he became Canon of Norwich, he was well and in January, 1899, when Sir George W. Edwards resigned prepared to appreciate the services of the Cathedral. His the post of president, Mr. Harvey was selected to succeed music was essentially of a conservative type, and he enjoyed him. to the full the ancient and stately strains he lived to hear. The Cathedral service was a joy to him to the end of his life, M. ARTHURCOQUARD, a composer little -known in this and it never lessened. No wonder, then, that the fullest country but much esteemed in France. A pupil of C6sar sympathy existed between the late Canon and the talented Franck, he was favoured with a special tribute from his organist and choir of Norwich Cathedral. The interests master. His principal compositions were orchestral. Some of the choir were always uppermost with him, and he made of his operas have achieved success, and the composer also his interest felt. The late Canon was endowed with a rich earned some renown as a critic.

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