Greek Musical Notation Author(s): Cecil Torr Source: The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 35, No. 622 (Dec. 1, 1894), pp. 841-842 Published by: Musical Times Publications Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3362307 Accessed: 25-02-2016 16:24 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 129.96.252.188 on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:24:17 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE MUSICAL TIMES. DECEMBERI, I894. 84I ult., the musical world is deprived of an artist of rare OBITUARY. accomplishments, in the plenitude of his powers and the WE regret to announce the following deaths:- height of his well-earned popularity. Eugene Oudin, rrho CHARLESLE CORBEILLIER,pianist and composer, whose ^vas of French-Canadian extraction, but settled in the works include songs without words, nocturnes, a quantity United States, was a graduate of Yale University, and of dance music, as well as an operette de salon, entitled practised for a while at the American bar. The late " Une Entrevue," and a mass for thrte voices and organ. Frederick Clay, amongst others, recognised his musical He died recently, aged seventy-three. talents, and encouraged him to cultivate them- and about LUIGI WIARIALUZI, a professor of music and composer the middle of the eighties Mr. Oudin deserted law for light of an unsuccessful opera, " Verita e bugie," which was opera. It was an uphill fight at first, and on the occasion performed in I858 at Naples, in which town he died of his first visit to England he failed to gain a satisfactory recently, aged sixty-three. hearing. Later on, however, his talents as a romantic OTTAVIOBARTOLINI, formerly an esteemed baritone baritone singer asserted themselves so convincingly that singer, who some decades ago appeared at many of the Sir Arthur Sullivan decided to entrust him with the impor- foremost opera houses in Europe. After his retirement tant role of the Tenlrzr in the production of " Ivanhoe," from the stage he became a teacher of his art. He died at the Royal English Opera House, in I89I. His imper- recently at Rome, aged seventy-three. sonation of this part, both vocally and histrionically, JOSEPH A^RDEN,whose real name was Kohlweck, an was quite the feature of the production, and from operatic singer at the Town Theatre, Bremen, where he died that date onwards he was constantly in evidence on on October 28, aged forty-four. the stage and Concert platforms. Thus he created LUIGI CHIOSTRI,an excellent artist, formerly the viola the part of EzlgesIe Ostegiw in Tschaikowsky's opera of the famous Becker Florentine Quartet, afterwards the of that name, when it was given for the first time in director of a Florentine Trio founded by him. and lately of England, during one of Signor Lago's ill-fated seasons another Quartet party, whose performances were highly at the New Olympic; and did all that could be done successful. He died at Florence on October 24, aged for "Ma mie Rosette," when that piece was produced at forty-seven. the Shaftesbury Theatre. Miithin the last year he CARL GERBER, Concertmeister at the Mozarteum fulfilled an operatic engagement with conspicuous success Salzburg, where he died on October 9. at St. Petersburg, appearing along with M. van Dyck in FRANZTHOMS, formerly, for nearly forty years, a singer " Werther," besides singing at several Concerts in Russia. at the Court opera, Munich, where he died on October I3. In England he was in constant request at all the best ALFONS CZIBULKA,a well - knosvn Austrian military Concerts, being an admirable linguist, a quick study, and bandmaster, composer of several operettas, many dances a most sympathetic and refined interpreter of romantic and and the pretty and extremely popular " Stephanie " Gavotte, sentimental music. His voice-a high baritone-was one of those pieces which catch the public taste at once exceedingly flexible, of a singularly emotional tzeelbre,and and make the round of the whole civilised world in an his intonation was invariably perfect. He especially endless number of possible and impossible " arrangements." excelled in modern French music, and gave proofof his He died at Vienna on October 27, aged fifty two. versatility by executing with great taste and facility the AUGUSTNEUMANN, formerly a comic opera singer, and English versions of the numerous foreign songs in his for a number of years, while engaged at the Friedrich- extensive repertory. Personally he was extremely popular, Wilhelmstadtisches Theater, a prime favourite of the being a man of winning manners, a most genial companion Berlin public. He died at Sondershausen, aged seventy. and in point of general education far above the level of his RENE DE RECY,the talented musical critic of the Revtle fellows. His last public appearance was at the Birmingham Blelle, and one of the best contributors to our excellent Festival, where his exquisite singing in Schumann's contemporary, Le G?>ideMusiccll. " Faust " extorted unanimous eulogy. It is worthy of note RICHARDKAFKA, formerly a singer at Kroll's and other that his sudden breakdown was, in all probability, due to Berlin theatres; on September 26, at Friedrichshagen, the self-sacrificing devotion with which he nursed a sick near Berlin, aged forty-seven. friend who was taken ill and died at his house. WIr. FERDINANDPODHORSKI, former]yopera singer at Prague, Oudin leaves a widow-herself an excellent singer- and and afterwards a teacher of singing in Vienna, in which three young children. town he died on September 24, aged fifty-eight. xiVIEHELMKNAACK, highly esteemed in Germany and Austria as an excellent comic opera singer, and for many CORRESPONDENCE, years a member of the Friedrich-Wilhelmstadtisches Theater, Berlin, and the Carl Theater, Vienna. He GREEK MU SICAL NOTATION. died in the latter town on October 29, aged sixty-five. ALEXANDERDECKNER, a musician best known through TOTHE EDITOR OF '{ THEMUSICAL TIMES. ' being the father of the violin virtcloso,Fraulein Charlotte SIR,-I am greatly obliged to you for allosing me to Deckner, who died a few years ago. He died at Lugos, on deal with Mr. Bergholt's letter here. October 24, aged seventy-four. He writes as follows:-" I meant my Aristoxenean in- JOSEF KURRIX,a Hungarian musician, who went to tervals to be Mr. Torr's, as I understood him to explain them America about ten years ago, died by his own hand at on p. 627 (September)." On p. 627 I said that " the octave New York on October 27. gave ten semitones of half a major tone apiece, and two of ROLANDVINCENT MISQUITH, fornaerly a member of the very nearly half a minor tone apiece." He thereupon set well-known Indian firm of musicsellers, Messrs. Misquith out a series of intervals which would make the octave give and Co., of Madras, and for many years organist and two semitones of half a major tone apiece, and ten of very choirmaster of Holy Trinity Church, Bangalore, in which nearly half a mean tone apiece. Such mistakes are town he managed a branch of his firm. He died suddenly inextusable in any case; but particularly so when they on October 28 at Singapore, whither he had gone early in are made the basis for a vehement attack. the year to establish a music business. He adds that my view, as he now understands it ROSINAPENCO, who in the forties and fifties enjoyed a " simply reproduces the Pythagorean (di-tonic) tuning, great and well-deserved reputation as a charming and and so makes the rival sects identical-a palpable sympathetic singer, her artistic performances and absurdity." But this would not make the rival sects statuesque beauty having been greatly admired by identical. Aristoxenus did not quarrel with the Pytha- Parisians as well as the opera-goers of many other large goraans about the magnitude of the intervals in this scale towns, including London. She died recently at the Italian oftheirs. Thequarrel was about the method of determining watering-place, Porretta, aged sixty-four, or-according to the intervals, Aristoxenus saying that this could be done some papers, seventy-one. accurately enough by ear, while the Pythagorxans said that By the premature death, in his thirty-sixth year, of Mr. it was necessary to measure off the lengths of string. EUGENEOUDIN, who was struck down by apoplexy in the Mr. Bergholt is obscuring the issue by quoting Beller- artists' room at Queen's Hall, after the Richter Concert, on mann and Westphal. The question is about the views ot October 20, and died on the morning of Sunday, the 4th Aristoxenus; and this rnust be decided by the statements This content downloaded from 129.96.252.188 on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:24:17 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 842 THE MUSICALTIMES. DECEMBERI, I894. Of Aristoxenus himself. He can state his own views better Again, the fac-simile codices give the statement about the than Bellermann or Westphal can state them for him; and letters of Pythagoras exactly as I quoted it.