The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



effect. The emotional or spiritual quantity in mu- 

 sic is particularly evident. 



Moreover, the emotions aroused by music are 

 singularly like these aroused by the landscape. One 

 hears a ringing Sousa march, and one experiences 

 the fine martial emotions that one feels of a brisk 

 October morning as one spins down the street in 

 the automobile between the double row of stately 

 maples. Or one listens to Mischa Elman play the 

 Dvorak Humoresque — to take another trite exam- 

 ple — and one feels the homesick longing expressed 

 by Tom Sawyer who sat on the hills in springtime 

 and looked across the valleys and yearned and 

 yearned and wanted to cry but couldn't think of 

 anything to cry about. 



So direct is this parallelism between music and 

 the landscape that for some years I have been in 

 the habit of using music to arouse the imaginations 

 of my students in landscape gardening. It is ab- 

 solutely essential, of course, that their imaginations 

 be aroused — that they be trained in the habit of 

 landscape feeling. So I play them on the Victrola 

 the best records that are made — the Sextet from 



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