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Mr. Pepys the Musician (Continued) Author(S): Francis Hueffer Source: the Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol Mr. Pepys the Musician (Continued) Author(s): Francis Hueffer Source: The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 22, No. 460 (Jun. 1, 1881), pp. 291-293 Published by: Musical Times Publications Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3355728 Accessed: 01-01-2016 20:20 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp 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. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 131.172.36.29 on Fri, 01 Jan 2016 20:20:07 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE MUSICAL TIMES.--JNE I, 188I. 291 the veritablekings of men. He has sustainedyou Lawes, the psalm composer,from his greater and withhis approbationand his fortune;it is thereforemore famousbrother, Henry, the friendof Milton. more than ever an obligationto praise this great To beginwith the lesser light, we findthat on Novem- musician,who has taken you by the hand. Dear ber 7, 166o,Lord Sandwich,after a long and confi- Berlioz, I embrace you verytenderly, in all the joy dential talk with his humblekinsman and retainer, of myheart." " called for the fiddlesand books,and we two and As soon as Berlioz was able to leave his room,he W. Howe and Mr. Childe did sing some psalmes of hastenedto Paganini's house:- Will. Lawes's and some songs,and so I went away." "They tell me that he is walkingup and down The same William Lawes, no doubt,is meant when his billiard-roomalone. I enter; we embraceeach Pepys describesanother musical gatheringat Lord other without power to say a word. After some Sandwich's house, December14, 1662,"where Mr. minutes,as I falteredout I knownot what expres- Howe and Pagett the counsellor; we sang some sions ofgratitude, Paganini, whose wordsthe silence psalms of Mr. Lawes and played some symphonys of the room permittedme to hear, stoppedme say- between till night"; and again a year and some ing: ' Don't speak any more about that. No. Add monthslater, where the Diarist aftera " verymerry nothing. It has given me the mostprofound satis- dinner" repairs withMr. Blagrave "to his chamber factionI everexperienced in mylife. You will never and therewe sang a Psalm or twoof Lawes's." This know what emotionsyour music excited; foryears William Lawes, it is perhaps desirableto add, was past I have not feltanything like it.' " Henry'selder brotherand a pupilof the JohnCooper Berlioz then went home; paid his debts,found a whoItalianised his good Englishname into Coperario, good sum leftto live upon yet awhile,and set about and acquireda certainreputation as a composerand writing" Romeo et Juliette." In seven monthsthat performeron the lute. William Lawes being,like great work was completed,and introducedto the most musicians of the time, a staunch Royalist, public by three successive performancesunder its foughtfor his king,and was killed at the siege of composer'sdirection. But the man who had made Chester,fifteen years beforethe beginningof the its creationpossible was not present:- Diary. But his music was evidentlystill popular " To mygreat regret Paganini neverheard or read when Pepys wrote. it. I hoped alwaysfor his returnto Paris. I waited, HenryLawes, who survivedhis brotherby many moreover,for the workto be revised and printedto years,is of courseof infinitely greater importance, and send him a copy, but meanwhilehe died at Nice, we findthis factreflected in the referencesmade to leavingme, amid so manyother poignant sorrows, in him in the Diary. Not thatthese are morenumerous ignorance as to whether he would have deemed than those referringto his brother,but their nature worthya workwritten to please him beforeall, and sufficientlyshows the deep interest taken in his with the intentionto justifyin his own eyes that work by Pepys, who in this,as in other instances, which he had done for the author. He himselfdisplays his criticalacumen. Whether he was per- seemed to regret much not knowing'Romeo et sonally acquainted with the composer does not Juliette,'and said so in a letter from Nice dated appear; there is every possibilitythat he was, for January7, 1840,where also occursthis phrase,'Now HenryLawes survivedthe evil days of the Common- all is done,envy can onlykeep silent.'" wealth,regained all his honoursat Court,and lived But if envyclosed her mouth,criticism did not. to set forthe coronationof Charles II. the anthem " Poor dear, great friend! he had never read, "Zadok the priest," so famousin English church happily, the horriblestupidities written in several history. He died in 1662. Parisian journals about the plan of the work,the In- The firstnotice of him in the Diary occurs as troduction,the Adagio,the QueenMab, the recitative earlyas May 31, 166o,and is to this effect:" All the of Friar Laurence. One reproachedme forthe ex- morningmaking orders. Afterdinner a greatwhile travaganceof attemptingthis new form of symphony; below in the great cabin tryingwith W. Howe some another foundin the scherzo of Queen Mab only a of Mr. Law's songs, particularlythat of "What is petty grotesque noise, like that of syringesbadly a kiss? " withwhich we had a greatdeal of pleasure; greased. A third,in speaking of the love-sceneof afterthat to makingof orders again." the Adagio,of the piece which three-fourthsof the I confessthat I have not been able to trace a song musiciansof Europe,who knowit, put at the head of withthe beginningabove quoted amongstthe works all I have written,declared that I had not compre- of anyof the Lawes's; and Mr. R. Lane Poole, of the hendedShakespeare. Frog puffedup withsilliness, musical departmentof the BritishMuseum, to whose when thou canst prove that to me. ... Never did courteousassistance I am much indebted,informs criticismsmore unexpected, more cruelly wound me; me that he has in vain searchedfor it amongstthe and, as usual, none of the Aristarchswho wrote MS. and printedcollections of the Museum. From foror againstthe workpointed out one of itsdefects, internal evidence, however,it seems to me most which I successivelycorrected later, as I was able probable that HenryLawes is the composer,for the to discernthem." reason,amongst others, that a fewmonths afterwards (To becontinued.) Mr. Pepys refersagain to some songs by Mr. Lawes -this time undoubtedlyHenry. The passage is MR. PEPYS THE MUSICIAN this:- " So home,and therehad a firein closet,and fell By FRANCIS HUEFFER. my to enteringthese two good songs of Mr. Lawes,' Helpe, (Continuedfrom page 236.) helpe, O helpe,' and 'O, God of Heaven and Hell,' VI. in mysong book,to whichI have got Mr. Childeto THE name of Lawes occurs altogethersix timesin set the base to the Theorbo,and that done,to bed." the Diary, and in one instanceMr. Pepys has further Here we are on safe ground. Both songs occur specifiedthe person he means the Christian in that " " byadding interestingcolletction, The second book name, Will." The editoraccordingly immediately of Ayres and Dialogues for one, two, and three comesto theconclusion that the other five entries refer voyces, by Henry Lawes, servantto his late Matie tothe same person-another instance of how carelessly in his publickand privatemusick. (London: Play- the of music has subject been treated in the notes. ford,I655)." A very moderateacquaintance with the historyof The song firstmentioned by Pepys is entitled Englishart would have sufficedto distinguishWilliam " A Storme,"and bears the characterof a monologue. This content downloaded from 131.172.36.29 on Fri, 01 Jan 2016 20:20:07 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 292 THE MUSICAL TIMES.-JUNE I, I88I. Chlorisat sea, near the land, is surprisedby a storm. growingout of the otherwith almost organic con- Amintoron the shore, expectingher arrival, thus sistency. How thiscan be done withoutany loss of complains:- lyrical impulse or melodic beauty, is shown most " Help, help, O help, Divinity of Love, eminentlyby such a song as When I listen to thy Or Neptune will commit a rape upon my Cloris, voice" to beautifulwords by Waller. For in those She's on his bosom, &c. days Englishcomposers loved to drawtheir inspira- The music is of a declamatorycharacter, and tionfrom the leading English poets,justly avoiding depictsthe situationof the unfortunateAmintor with the inane sentimentalitieswhich nowadayspass as considerableforce. the mostappropriate " words formusic." It was to More dramatic,however, and infinitelymore in- this qualitythat Lawes owed the tributeof his great terestingis the second song referredto in the Diary, friendMilton, embodied in the lines frequently,but whichoccurs at page 47 of the same volume. It is not too frequently,quoted:- entitled" Orpheus' Hymn to God," and bears the Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song, Greek The firststanza First taught our English music how to span motto, AiOLpog2)' aiLov. may Words with just note and accent, not to scan be quotedhere:- With Midas' ears, committing short and long. King of Heav'n and Hell, of Sea and Earth, Miltonin his admirationof his friend how- Who shak'st the world when thou shout'st thunder forth, just is, Whom Devils dread, and Hosts of Heaven prayse; ever,led into slightlyoverstating his case. English Eternal cause who on the winds doth ride: composersbefore Lawes knewthat in vocal music Whom Fate (which master's all things else) obeys; And Nature's face with thick dark clouds dost hide. thejust and harmoniousemphasis of the wordsis of paramountimportance; and thegreatest English poet The musical treatmentis highlycharacteristic of had insisted the factthat and ofthe school to whichhe already upon Lawes, belongs.
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