DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

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the invention of fifteen arbitrary signs, for
representing the notes of the Gamut, from F to
a'. The signs for the four finals of tlie antlien-
tic modes which form hia second tetracliord
are as follows :
/? Primus qui et c/ravissiinus Graece Protoa
dicitur vel Archos.
/? Secuiulus Deuteros tono disians a Proto.
^ Tertius Tritos se^uitono distans a Deutero.
/t" Quartus Tetardos tono distans a Trito.
The number of examples given in illustration
of these principles, and others deduced from
them, is very great ; and the tract concludes
with an account of the descent of Orpheus into
Hades, in search of Eurydice. w. s. i\.
HUDGECUT, John-. A London musicpublisher,
who em[ilo3"ed Heptinstall and other
printers. His name is attached in 1679 to an
exceedingly curious engraved work (probably
unique), now in the Bodleian Library, A Vade
MecumfoT the Lovers of Musick sJyixuing the Excellency
of the Eechorder . . . MDCLXXIX,
London^ printed by A^. Thovipson for John
Mudgebut, at the sign of the (Golden Harp, and,
Hoeboy in Chancery Lane. Obi. 8vo. In ] 695
he published from Heptinstall's press the Sonys
in the Indian Queen . . . by Mr. Henry Purcell,
and in the preface he, with another bookseller
who was concerned in the work, calmly confesses
that it is published without knowledge of the
author. F. K.
HUDSON", Robert, Mus.B., born in London,
Feb. 25, 1732, was a tenor singer, and sang
when a young man at Ranelagh and Marylebone
Gardens. In 1755 he was assistant organist of
St. Mildred, Bread Street. In 1756 he was
appointed vicar-choral of St. Paul's, in 1758 a
gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and in 1773
almoner and master of the children of St. Paul's,
which offices he resigned in 1793. He was also
music master at Christ's Hospital. Hudson was
the composer of 'The Myrtle,' a collection of
songs in three books, published in 1767 ; of a
service and some cliants, and many hymn tunes.
He also set for five %'oices the lines on Dr. Child's
monument at Windsor, commencing 'Go, happy
soul.' He died at Eton, Dec. 19, 1815. His
daughter M.A.RY was, in 1790, and till her
death, March 28, 1801, organist of St. Clave,
Hart Street, and St. Gregory, Old Fish Street.
She was the composer of several hymn tunes,
and set for five voices the English version of the
Latin epitaph on PurceU's gravestone, 'Applaud
so great a guest.' w. h. h.
HtJE, Geouoes Adolphe, French composer,
born at Versailles, May 6, 1858, studied under
Eeber and Paladilhe, and competed for the
Grand Prix de Rome in 1878, when he obtained
honourable mention, and the prize itself in 1879.
The ' Cressent ' prize was awarded to him in
1881, and that offered by the city of Paris in
1885. Hiie is a master of the art of musical
colour, and is also remarkably skilful in the
development of his ideas ; he excels in works of
an elegiac character. He has written numerous
songs, choruses, a symphonic overture, a symphony,
' Riibezahl, ' a symphonic legend in three
'Resurrection'
parts (Colonne concerts, 1886) ;
(Concerts du Conservatoire, 1892); 'LeBerger,'
a ' Ballade et Fantaisie ' for violin (Colonne
Concerts, 1893); 'Jeunesse,' on a poem by
Hettich (Colonne Concerts, 1897) ; etc. His
works for the stage have been received with
various degrees of favour. They are ' Les
Pantins,' opera-comique, two acts (Opera Comiqne,
Dec. 28, 1881); 'Coeur brisc,' pantomime
(Boutfes Parisiens, 1890); 'La Belle an Bois dormant,'
incidental music (Theatre de I'CEuvre,
1894) ; 'Le Roi de Paris,' lyric drama, three acts
(Opera, April 26, 1901); 'Titania,' musical
drama, three acts (Opera Comique, Jan. 20,
1903). G. F.
HUEFFER, Fean-ois, Ph.D., author and
musical critic, was born at Miinster, May 22,
1843. After studying modern philology and
music in London, Paris, Berlin, and Leipzig, he
fixed his residence in London and devoted
himself to literary work. His first articles
appeared in the North British Ecvieu\ in the
Fortnightly Pericw (when under Mr. John
Morley's editorship), and in the Academy, of
which he became assistant editor. At a time
when England hesitated to acknowledge the
genius of Wagner, Huelfer brought home to amateurs
the meaning of the modern developments
of dramatic and lyrical composition by the
publication, in 1874, of his Pdehard Wagner
and the Music of the Future. He was in 1878
appointed musical critic of The Times, and
consistently followed up his advocacy of the
modern in art by supporting the claims of living
English musicians. He also wrote librettos
for several eminent English composers. Thus
' ' Colomba and ' The Troubadour ' were written
for Mackenzie, and ' The Sleeping Beauty ' for
Coweu. He made an excellent adaptation of
Boito's libretto of Verdi's ' Otello.'
As early as 1869 Mr. Huetfer had published
a critical edition of the works of Guillem de
Cabestanh, which gained him the degree of
Ph.D. from the University of Gottingen, and
led to his election to the 'Felibrige,' or Society
of modern Troubadours, of which ilistral (the
author of Mireijo), Theodore Aubauel, and oliher
distinguished poets were the leading spirits.
The Troubadours, a history of Provencal life and
literature of the Middle Ages, appeared in 1878 ;
and a series of lectures on the same subject was
delivered at the Royal Institution in 1880. A
collection of Musical Stuelies from The Times,
etc., was published in 1880, and soon appeared
in various translations ; The Life of Wagner,
the first of the Great Musicians series, in 1881 ;
Italian and other Studies in 1883. The Corrc-
spondenee of Wagner and Liszt, a translation,
followed soon after the publication of the