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Little Town of Bethlehem," "It Came Upon the still, as his emaciated hands ran feverishly over
Midnight Clear" and "Home of the Soul."
the keys. Then he seemed to gather will and
force; he played; and the fall of the notes was as
due to its 'ragtime,' pretty, often very pretty, and
the dropping of tears. The listeners did not renew
CHOPIN'S
FUNERAL
MARCH.
full of sprightliness and suggestion. The word-
their dance; they lost all zest for it. They did
maker knows this and the suggestive rhythm of
How the Great Pole Improvised the Famous
not move; they did not speak until Chopin ceased
'ragtime' seems to be his license. The 'ragtime' be-
Funeral March Interestingly Told.
his playing and lapsed moodily into himself again.
comes the color, gaudy but attractive, when skil-
They praised him; they tried to carry him about
fully used; the words—what do they become in this
How Chopin composed, or rather improvised, the studio on their shoulders in honor of the im-
song which is claiming a place in the home as ex- his Funeral March is related in the Paris Temps by provisation ; but he shook them off and went his
pressing the spirit of that home? Study them, read Jules Claretie in an article on the late painter Zieni, way. The 'Improvisation' was the Funeral March."
them separated from the tune. You will know if
says the New York Post:
that song be not the dime novel of music. Its very
WELSH RIVALS_FOR "TIPPERARY."
"At the burial of Ziem Chopin's Funeral March
tune, pretty as it may seem with its tinkly rhythm, —the march in the sonata—was the dirge to which
A Cardiff dispatch to Lloyd's Weekly says:
is bad because it suggests and supports words that the mourners moved. And then I remembered
"Cymric ardor on the battlefield is going to be
should never have been printed, much less sold or that it was in Ziem's studio that Chopin had first inspired and sustained by Cymric music. Not the
sung.
composed it and under a kind of hallucination. least impressive sight among the Welsh units train-
"Study again some of the songs and ballads that Ziem and the frequenters of his studio were a wild ing at Porthcawl has been the gathering of the
have lived. Many of them were at one time so- and whimsical lot in those days, and on this par- soldiers for choral singing. When the new Welsh
called popular songs and 'best sellers.' Why did ticular evening they were amusing themselves with army of 40,000 men takes the field it will go to
not they, too, perish within the year of their birth? a half comic, half ghastly masquerade. Stripping battle to the sound of a Cymric war chorus, which
Read their words separated from their tunes. Now the sheets from the beds and seizing any white experts have described as the finest martial music
take the tunes and see^ if they were once popular wrapping upon which they could lay hand, they in the world.
merely because they tinkled; is there not something had improvised a ballet of ghosts, suggested doubt-
"The organization just formed is known as the
more there than the suggestion of a clog dance?"
less by the phantoms of the nuns that rise from Welsh Army Male Voice Chorus, and as the re-
The "worth while" songs listed in the pamphlet
their graves in Meyerbeer's opera, 'Robert the cruits include some of the finest singers in the
include:
"America," "Star-Spangled Banner," Devil.'
Welsh valleys, men who have competed in scores
"Battle Hymn of the Republic," "Yankee Doodle,"
"Chopin, however, held aloof. He would not of Eisteddfods, the soldiers' practice songs at
"Home, Sweet Home," "Old Kentucky Home," join in the frolic; he would not even smile at it. Porthcawl partake of the character of first-class
"Old Oaken Bucket," "Ben Bolt," "Swing Low, He was nervous and 'shivery,' and finally he sat concerts, which attract to the vicinity of the hall
Sweet Chariot," "Tombigbee River," "The Mocking down at the pianoforte, while the 'ghosts' in their large numbers of residents of the town and vis-
Bird," "Gentle Annie," "Jolly Old St. Nicholas," "O white shrouds gathered about him. They grew itors."
WHAT MAKES SONGS POPULAR?
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