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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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