Mr. Henry Walford Dalies [Junr li, 



p^n and companion of the verbal phrase which started it. Notable 



ir!stan<-*^ ar^ to be fotmd in '* I know that mv Redeemer liveth," 



^ .:»ih borne oar griefs."* *• Total eclip^se," and numberles 



riits. But even he cc»uld make mnsie ridictdoui in 



one of his most spontaneous works* bv elaborate choral 



: : : of the following words : 



To man God's universal law 

 Gave power hO keep Lis wife in awe ; 

 Thus shall his life be ne'er dismayed 

 By female ustirpaidon swayed, 



with nnmeroiis roulades on the third syllable of ** ustirpation/* and 

 an imposing choral c-adence. (Illustration given.) Still more 

 notablv has opera brought the verbal and musical quarrel into 

 pre«minence. While it must be freely admitted that the attempts 

 since Gluck's time to make snng-dialogue congruous have b"een heroic 

 and splendid, yet the absurd situations it still creates should not, I 

 think, mislead us nor be accepted as s<jmething inevitable. Simg- 

 drama which is meant to be reformed and purged of ab'surdities and 

 inci:»ngniities* makes its men and women hold ecstatic conversation 

 on high A. B? or B, with their heads very close to each other, 

 natural enough in stage love-making, but grc^tesque indeed when, 

 for vc»cal purposes, their mouths are opien ab<:»ut 1| inches, each 

 to each; op^eratic heroes, after they receive their death-blow, 

 indtilge in ten or fifteen minutes' hard singing, in which effort 

 they, perhapis, review their lives, and sum up the world in general 

 in terms of real music, but of hopelessly imreal drama ; trivial 

 ojnversations are deliV»erarely det?Iaimeii in s«3ng. These and 

 ntimberless like ar- " ^ ^' " " " " ^- t>e frankly re":ogn:zed 

 as a niere m^.k-esh: ^ . and music-al c.:ii.T:«act- 



shall - s 01 wiiat is. as I believe, an 



a":or: - . For it is clear that as the 



- . the younger art. increases — and it does increase br 

 -:-..- — - ---inds; ktely it has Literally cried aloud with growing 

 plains — and as the divergence of ap^titude of the two arts becc-mes 

 n: -- " -^--'. it is more desirable, and even urgent, for the general 

 : .as well as musicians and librettists, to discern 



r rr.ation between the "Sphere-bom harmonious sisters. 

 Verse." and to recognize the conditions under which they 

 -T ' ' " ' other, to "wed their 



- -: is. without raising 



~ _■ riii^c^; LLxo*:..r,jCS>. liiut Atilton was STr^.-ngly 



a -^TL b^ his praise of the musical secrji^^s of 



Hairy Lii -rent up when they ought to go up, 



and dowt . _ down. 



It ma7 . that the task of reconciliation is often very 



di5ie"'i. . .s in anv wav realize! Beeth'~"r'- '- i-^r^'-> '> 



