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How a Trumpet Is Made

1910; Musical Times Publications; Volume: 51; Issue: 805 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/906731

2397-5318

David Blaikley,

American Political and Social Dynamics

his own craft, as ' The lass with the delicate air' can sufficiently testify.Arne took himself seriously when he produced 'Artaxerxes.'I am afraid modern audiences would not stand this opera in its fullness.It gradually faded until only 'In infancy our hopes and fears,' 'The soldier, tired of war's alarms,' and 'Water parted from the sea,' were the sole remnants of that once famous production.That the lastnamed was considered 'genteel' we have the bear leader's testimony in 'She stoops to conquer,' for it shares with the minuet from 'Ariadne' the honour of supplying the music for the bear's dancing.Arne was an English musician -a thoroughly English one-and if we are to believe many people, we never had much native talent that lay in that direction.Still, it seems to me that with all Arne's faults and with all his limitations, and these were but of his age, he should be far dearer to us than many of those foreign composers who supply our concert programmes with lyrics that are either, in translation, sickly sentimental or deadly dull, and whose music cannot have the same appeal to our English temperament.Yet beyond the three Shakespearean songs, 'Blow, blow, thou winter wind,' 'Where the bee sucks' (both more frequently used as test-pieces for children's singing, rather than as concert items), and 'When daisies pied,' what does the average person hear of Dr. Arne's music except 'Rule, Britannia' ?Arne is probably the most representative of English composers of the I8th century, save for Church music.It is true he did little instrumental