SUNDAY, APRIL -22, 1920
THE MICHIGAN- DAILY
PAGE THRE
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Oirchesratio~n o ,roetry enhance the wisdom of the: philosc
NIUSICD A NK D for the contemplation of prosodist
IUSI CIAN 5N RM N OC W O rhetoricians, and for the slaves
-_________ literary criticism.
In the, teaching of poetry the pro- merely say, "Jones, fig Your attention
SCRIA 31 E fessor experiences difficulties that up uipon the 'cello"; or should the de-
Because of the novelty of his idiom to this time have not lent 'themselves inure womian student confess her in- # GRUjEN WATCHES
--it is a difficult matter to assess Scria-, to concrete explanation. Music is more -ability to recognize the foot pattern it ;
bine Onefees, i regrd oml e- otranideal way of epeso hntrefo ieseSalb odt
patuesinartht nemutsoe-potr.The fact alone that a "poet! observe the toboe. sesalb odt
how link the work. of the present age deals with words ties him down to ! The question is : Will this system -
with the accomplishments of the past. ;rules exceeding by far the convention- rtecigpotybea rGtcla
Scinriabine. Itisoassigne of illtaste tocusng Amos R. Mio rsof the Universityl is the organization of 'an} orchest ra of ii N C I E N T
pull every new, composer to pieces, seriously occupied" in a search for a~ suitable size would b~e an expense and Greeks wore
Instead of listing',Scriabine, Debussy, more thorough philosophy of poetry! a difficulty for most inistit ,tions. Inj
Strauss- and those who puzzle us in; than has so far contented the scholarsI the second place, w ill the stt. gent who: rings only by royal
the book of hopeless -cases, it is far' of verse. is Incapable of rsigrti nddce.Tedsg
more progressive to strive to under-; Mr. Morris has decid~ed upon stress,; phrasing it by simple mental study be
stand them. In the course of experi-' pitch, and quantity as beang the pro-I fitted to obtain further simplification . poved the wearer's
mit, it is true, are to be found corn- eminent factors in verse. As far as , from listening to his difficulty pier-' F distinction. Betro-
posers whose works are of no value, the average student is coincerned, he ist formed on the 'cello, violin, or horn? thl and Bil
or at least will not be of value ten" able to grasp stress 'with compara-: It is doubtful.
year hece;butspekin sicerlytively little difficulty. Thec pitch of! As to the method of recording and Rig arwon nl
the mtore one studies Scria ble 'and a feeling, however, is .disagreed upon saualysis, the mechanics of the kino- by Love's decree.
intimates himself vitai his maniners of by nearly all, and should "to a certain graph at present is inadequate. In Full dphof af"c
expessonthen~o~~2 ~ai:~~s hatextent be left to the interpretation o' preparing- merely four lines of av- dph arc
he will stand out int L-tor y as an; the individual. But the quantity (ra- erage length poetry, for the pen of Lo id itntv
epoch-maker. tio) can be studied in a far muore scien- tionochfindsr, distinctiveire
It is evithetorchestratostronr.exporrisorequires
It i evient hat ' .,nc& trg tific way than is generally supposed,} ten hours. Detail improvements onexrsin n th
poin isColr N cth" ' ii ~i rnaccording to Mir. Morris. He has de-1i the kiinograph and one other accom-
history have ever emp1 ;iz!~d color as wsediscovered, or invented, a most, snyng-mbolisin ofaleliii t
muc asScrabte.Thi vey'fact i ingenioussytmo analysis, and i accomplish his ten hour task in less>Oag lso
th hn hc abscic~adis incidentally thiroughi music. Stressi tliait three hours. Eng agement and
musicians, who claiim t possess the and uantity can be determined by 1Aritsad}'
Ariitt nofhoprophecyv hih-togitdoubtohecthe doworth ort-; areul eighnetf eerywonsan ialer hIC Rngs
of Scriabine as regards the perpetua- caeu;egigofeey'odad er-to been completely bewildered as tarig ig
tionof is ork Thir rguent~ phrase, but pitch must needs be re-; to description of vocal effects. That
that mu hscwoicrk. Tdeircorded.ehisisoe yman fSeeTheir Beauty at
reytoa tsi hih(oes not appeal the-kinogrdph whis ichdne r e s he f! is, the fact that one recognizes his
the inorap, whch ecods te v- ifriend upon hearing his voice has been
rhicly ote emotions .,that is, music brations on a b~elt;' thus, approximate mrlyafctih peoennL
whc osnot have emotional OX- tones can be discerned. Now for ex- tesce ftesu-osiu id
pression, such as the works of Beetho- ample, take the first two lines o ftheisecr.tMorrihes'blenstiotuexpina-! JEWELERS
ven, is doomed to be forgotten. This teeso'4"wngIt is M. ofterv elie that texphn-;
is a weak and unjustifiable argument, Hote donou l Sietgo p n a 'in tiin f heas vedealt thwill son-+SAE TR T
first, because color-painting in music Hwd o iet ou nas*iiaeiinhst elwt ilso
has never. before been attempted on !LU in the air so blue. present themselves; thus, insiv1,* ir~*n
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x;,',cice there pulses another spirit ylll[111N1111111il tli11111111111111111111111111iIIft 1111iIu~it1uuItil11,,,,itIII, 1111111"lllRiIl 1t111 1 ';
he unto its owfl.
I J ant Perfume', Zone Gale has 5 -
iven u"s bela Perrin., nice, imper- 2- '- ' -------__... _
urbably delicate 'and graced by the -
caszualncss of excl.}iiste taste in any = _3
risis." Illness and pen'ury force heer 5' a I Y43
nto home of a relative, and it is here, f
n the house of the Crumb, in the vil-
age of Prospect that the spiritual in-
arecera t i o and torture of Leda is -
eveole.1. She realises that she is be- °.
fg killed lowly, repeatedly, and -it is '5
w1y with the coing of Barnaby into:_ .
er life that shte opens her eyes to the,2.:/
niver se about her and lives once. =
yore. And- yet the Crumiwb family is w5
l likce any family in any city-yoW2 '
- y knew.. Manmna -Crumb who always , -: .
Imonisheci Grandfather - Crumbs- to..-, '
eat up his sauce." Tweet_ Cr umb,:= .."k ..
,olid sentinenta'ity, a setting for tun-
alized maternity, .Orrin- Crumb, 'her 5........................ ~~'
usband the "Gideonite:' big -hearted 5
oisy, a traveling salesman and Pearl 2
runib whose walk: betrayed '"no god- =
BSinl her flesh." Also, into this fain- ;-
y circle returns Ricbmiel of the beau-
fli body, after divorcing her husband --
arnaby', and 'retaining the smvall child
liver. Good in "their own eyes, good -.' .
many peoples' eyes, perhaps, but. ._ j --
ill inestimilably wicked and vulgar-,'-'p _.. .,%~ff Sl,." 1 ? ''"
ampling; on nicety, muridering be'au - _A3 r
","an-Iiig" eternally oven snmall 5s
inss tl* Crumh .:1,fa fly'is de'ploi - i..S7 -.;
,iy = ie any faml yumy know.:_"
Iir by7)1. siii g ci them asks; .__.
ieW 0110won to .ui'vix~e talk which
ayes uinO physically -faint' from its -, 1
iconscilous breaches of decency? _
The damned ineptitudes those
:ople don't even know. they make=
The novel is plainly a spiritual ! ,.
eation, but Zona 'Gale, never more
e artist has drawn it with cameo S
arness against a background of A F s ion Dfo! a ~ ~ "n
ter material reality.- Her village ievue "V 'WO~L V~JLL~L
the village which we have met in 5
aclair Lewis and 1hisrschool, Witht; n f l.. A''crco
s Cliff .rene: Zona Gale labels it 54':00 O'clock W ednelsday fcn
°uery and forgets it, she i1s newer
rayed e into a conicernted portrait of D , - ". ~ . L 71'
coiArfonplace. *Pj':Prum"~resentation of the ummer MVodes as Fashion favors totem Whl bemaue
Scofls~ua a tcraftswonian s5 at a Fashion Revue exclusively for University -women-Iat 4 a'clocl ednesdap ' . .
71ehow spiritualised her, style until 2 .5
sees prt f hr teme Asshe ~df ternoon, 'April- 25.in: an- auditorium in connection with the Sucre:. Entrance
domes more abstract, more soaring, is tniikUgh the second floor ready-to-wear- section.=.
yarxd the last chapters, one easily. '5.a .-r
'gets that he reads. I shall be. very Music will; be- furnished-by the Helen <Newberry orchestra_ and -
i surprised if.c-ritics do not place . . the models have been chosen. from University women, thus con- '' =
aizit Perfunme ' amog the per'ma- tributing _to the Michigan _,League Campaign fund the. sum ordinarily
t volumes on the growing shelf of expended .fpr-.a_-Ya-hio Pugeatnt'. University'r oenn- are -ccndialy-=
= *invitedl to. attend, this redue of sutmmepr .modes- that reveal th~f e ,o- -
- ' ". vailig tendencies in attire for every occasion.
DEFENSE OF=
such a vast scale, andi second, be-
causethrarplnypep-. ten different denominations of phrase,
musicalapeoplwoento peoae' length; that. is, they may be read
minlueneoquie-ahseeasiobyscre-stressing only the first word in each
inlencolorit as oe acubysomay line, or by. accenting. "How" and "up"
iynes -olriting.bo more readilmay (in the first line) "Uip" and "Blue"
stlan a itn. o moodeberta dthe (n the second line) and so forth. As
cnamobeexpressed tanby t iet i mosbefrarctrt rn
gorgeous harmonies in a Scriabineitiimosbefraecerobin
symphony or piano, sonata? Even hi, ' out all these ten, patterns at one time,
smales pice ar exrardiaryinnothing could be more suited than
shalt nyofemare esrorviidly- iug-Mr._Mrrs idea; a ten piece orches-
gthatmen of thmd. ovvil sg tra. Hence, the violin plays the melo-'
The chief weakness of the modern; dy which the orchestrator has based
school is that its music is too objec- uo h irtosrcre on the
Live It over-works the expression of icnograph; the flute plays the speech
external things. Scriabine. hlowcever, is! phrase, the triangle rhyme; the -bass
an xcetio. 1te s nt lke he anviol or drum plays the lines of four;
who devises a, special system of bar-' feet, the viola the lines of three feet, i
monies and then adopts what he has the 'cello the lines of four and. three
to sy t hi airmoie.Scrabie'sfeet: the piccolo the half-lines, the{
theories evolved from his coniposi.'clarinet the foot pattern in half-lines, {
tuons. He went about his wvork natur- the oboe the foot pattern in three-foot;
ally. He used the dodecuple scale and- lines, the horn the foot pattern in half
the uguente sith hordbecuselines and three foot lines. So then, if
they automatically adjusted them- the student admits his incapacity to
selves to his needs of expression, distinguish, for instance, the lines of
There are other composers whom we; four and three feet,.the instructor need
also find utilizing these bases..arid so
they are placed on the same level as
the same natural, naive style as in ; no ie a aie
Scriabine. Most composers of the= By N. B.
modern school marvel at themselves, CIE
and they would have others be as-: HIE
tounded at them for their success in "The spring sports Number" does
defying so successfully, the conven-. not excel "The Theatre Number", but I
tional harmonies and accepted rules of it is a good Chimes nevertheless,, for
theory. Music which attracts atten- -a. change. It seems really# to have
tion to its composer instead of to its touched the pulse of the campus, and'
own beauty is doomed to ruin. The its articles are really Michigan
composer may attract for a time: he articles and indeed of college interest.
may be the center of society, or claim I am surprised to find myself liking
to be the founder of a cult, but as IChms
the ages have proven, no one man!Ihms
establishes a cult. People may avowI "On Court, Field, and Course" is
their likes for eccentric music, but kquite refreshing after the sort of
there are pl enty-.to be found who doj humor we read in the Detroit sport
not know what they like. For .the' columns; and the stories "Storm" by _
sabre of sel-satisfaction_ people profess' Wallace F. Elliott and ."Science in
admiration for whatever seems clever I Love" by Lilias Kendall are just the.
because they -are -sensitive enough to type of thing Chimes should print.
*"n t"iwfllinp to ehar, e being called They are truly -prize stories. Signor
"behind times" or "conservative." But { Mac's "There Was a. Freshman" is
the rausle of the man""'who does not clean sentiment and appreciation.
put himself forward in person will Mr. Bohn ?itchell in "Singing to
not -suffer the, evil of being humored. 'Thzose Who Snore" is quite as' pre-.
The -works of Scriabine are being uicd nd ogacashspo
given a fair, trial, or- at least a fairer jdend andu dogmatices s thisoppo-ut
one than those of certain 'other corn-net.utheprssmchotut
-posers of the day. . Without enteringanisocurentrtng Thttl
i-fnto 'thd-realm of prophecy it is rca- is the best part of his article thoughi.
sonable to state that in years hence, I As 'f or Ralph Carson-well I don't
wl~en Seriabine's inferior contemnor- want. to let my .deep envy color my
aries have sunk below the zenith ofj opinion, but I have a feeling that his
their glory, he will have contin'ued to reputation maikes his utterances here
-rise to a far :.greater fame than had ; look pale, fascinating as they are.
he succumbed to the petty glory of the 'The poetry is shockingly bad. Mr.
salon. ; -F [an Horne is a far better critic thtan
a poet. I quote his own words: "I
John- Galsworthy- is to be the subjectj cannot write a sonnet . . ."
-of a completea bibliographly, to be pubp- Mr. Hershidorfer in reviewingg .Town
histhedl in England. (Continued on Page Eight) ,
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