Modern Müziksel Akım - Modern Musical Drift

Modern Musical Drift

By
W. J. Henderson
Author of "The Story of Music," "Preludes and
Studies," etc., etc.

Longmans, Green, and Co.

91 and 93 Fifth Avenue, New York
London and Bombay
1904

Copyright, 1904,
By Longmans, Green, and Co.

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.

TO MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE,
JAMES HUNEKER.

Dear James:

Beside the ebon Styx

The brood harmonious wanders slow.

A backward gaze on earth they fix,

And ask, "Where doth dear Music go?"

I fancy Palestrina stares,

And good Scarlatti gasps for breath,

While Handel, with his figured airs,

Bemoans poor Music's early death.

Old Haydn shakes his long peruke,

And Mozart wags his pendant cue,

As both record their soft rebuke:

"What is it that these moderns do?"

Alone in all that troubled throng

One moves with calm, unruffled brow;

For still Sebastian's voice is strong

To say, "'Twas I who taught them how."

So when the storms discordant brew,

You smile at me across the house;

For well you know there's nothing new,

Not even (pardon!) in your Strauss.

Except, perhaps, a fine disguise

Of leading motives, wood and strings,

Which make a score look wondrous wise,

And seem to mean to many things.

So weave your fancies; I'll weave mine;

And let them wander, dark or bright.

The Lords of Art have graven fine;

Perchance we both discern aright.

W. J. H.
August, 1904.

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Modern Musical Drift