A WOMAN'S FARM JOURNAL - University of Illinois
A WOMAN'S FARM JOURNAL - University of Illinois
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MUSIC ON THE <strong>FARM</strong><br />
(CONTINUED FBOU PAQB 108)<br />
for more. Do you suppose that when<br />
they come back home they are going to<br />
forget this newt-taste for art which they<br />
have acquired through the war? I think<br />
hot! ^They're going to say: "Now folks,<br />
why can't all the neighbors get together<br />
and start something along the music line.<br />
I can't forget it. I'm hungry for it."<br />
Out on the farm should be the natural<br />
place to find real native dyed-in-the-wool<br />
music-lovers. Nature is first cousin to<br />
music. The greatest composers have<br />
written their melodies out on the farms.<br />
The finest inspirations have been felt on<br />
the hills and down near the brooks. Folks<br />
who know how to respond to nature's<br />
calls, should first a'nd best understand<br />
music's message. For most music is about<br />
nature and people close to the soil, just<br />
as nearly all true poetry is. A big piano<br />
number may seem at first like a succession<br />
<strong>of</strong> chords <strong>of</strong> harmony. But close your<br />
eyes, set vyour imagination at work and<br />
you find that it is an idealization <strong>of</strong> the<br />
sound <strong>of</strong> your own neighborly brook, or<br />
the musical interpretation <strong>of</strong> a thunderstorm.<br />
Have you ever attended a nature concert,<br />
without a human being present except<br />
yourself nor a single man-made tune<br />
being played ?<br />
Go out into the country on a cool, breezy<br />
summer's afternoon—say up in the mountains.<br />
The concert has already begun.<br />
You have missed some but there is plenty<br />
more—as much as you want. There is<br />
no conductor, except the Greatest Conductor<br />
<strong>of</strong> all, yet everything is in perfect<br />
harmony.<br />
Hear the chirping <strong>of</strong> the birds singing<br />
their recurrent notes with a rythm most<br />
enchanting. Hear the rat-a-tat-tat <strong>of</strong> the<br />
grasshoppers and their kindred. Hear the<br />
bass drummer, the woodpecker, play his<br />
part. Hear the s<strong>of</strong>t roulades and trills<br />
<strong>of</strong> the distant waterfall. The breeze that<br />
moves the leaves is like the swishing ^ <strong>of</strong> a<br />
dancer's veil. When the rain falls what<br />
a beautiful patter-patter—it begins like<br />
a scherzo or mazurka on a fine_ old concert<br />
grand.<br />
Altogether, what a melody, what a harmony<br />
unfolds! This is music for the<br />
musician to hear and pr<strong>of</strong>it by. There's<br />
a fine recreation in which any <strong>of</strong> us may<br />
indulge—interpreting music—finding the<br />
composer's real message.<br />
When the family and the workers gather<br />
for that "sing," try this idea <strong>of</strong> asking<br />
what the music means to them.<br />
For instance, suppose you have put on<br />
a record <strong>of</strong> a violin composition. "What<br />
does it mean to you?" you ask. "Is it<br />
about anything that sounds familiar?<br />
What idea or picture does this suggest<br />
to you?"<br />
On a summer day close your eyes as<br />
you lie in your hammock or stretch out<br />
on the grass. All nature is alive. You<br />
can hear it and see it. When you listen<br />
to the great composition, music is painting<br />
in flaming colors. Some chords are<br />
red as carmine, some are drab as steel<br />
gray ; some are muddy, some lurid , some<br />
the color <strong>of</strong> ashes and some the pink <strong>of</strong> the<br />
rose-petals. You can listen to some music<br />
and see only black—the blackness <strong>of</strong> infinity,<br />
<strong>of</strong> overwhelming space. Some<br />
phrases suggest cats' eyes, green and distrustful.<br />
Whitecaps dance in an arpeggio.<br />
Another passage will make you think<br />
<strong>of</strong> the golden beams <strong>of</strong> the sun, warm and<br />
dancing. The whitecaps are wet—they<br />
smell <strong>of</strong> salt and sea-weed. They are<br />
surging and ebbing with restless impatience.<br />
The rose petals are s<strong>of</strong>t and velvety.<br />
A sweet fragrance is wafted in the<br />
nostril. It is strange and difficult to<br />
understand how this can be but it is nevertheless<br />
true that music paints real pictures<br />
on the mind:<br />
Pity the children who grow up without<br />
melody and harmony. Be glad for the<br />
youngsters who can look out on life<br />
with an appreciation and love <strong>of</strong> music.<br />
They will see beyond the horizon line.<br />
They will see beyond the dollar sign.<br />
They will see more than the daily routine.<br />
They will blossom and make the loveliest<br />
flowers on the farm. If theycan play or sing<br />
to make folks tingle with happiness just to<br />
hear them, then they become the finest<br />
friends and citizens <strong>of</strong> America.<br />
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