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April 5th, 1881.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
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mark: " Penthesilea" overture;Raff: " Wald " overture; Grademer: Capriccio
PRIZES OFFERED BY THE CINCINNATI MUSICAL CLUB.
for orchestra; Berlioz: "Franc Juges " overture, orchestral version of Weber's
HE Club offers two prizes upon the following terms and conditions:
" Invitation a la Valse," and six songs for different'voices with orchestra;
FIRST.—The prizes are open for competition to all muticians of Cin-
Liszt: "Mazeppa," " Mefisto Waltzer," and " Ce qu'on enfcend surlamon- cinnati and suburbs.
tagne " (Berg symphonie); and Wagner: " Tannhauser " overture (with the
SECOND.—The composition to be a String Quartette, consisting of four
new Venus music), scene from the "Rheingold," "Siegfried's Tod," Ver- movements, taking from twenty-five to forty minutes in its performance.
sammlung der " Meistersinger," "Siegfried Idyll," and "Huldigungs
THIRD.—The prizes to be awarded are a first prize of $200.00 for the
Marsch." Villiers Stanford's Psalm, " God is our hope and strength," and most meritorious and original composition; and a second prize of $100.00
Mr. F. H. Cowen's new Scandinavian symphony.
for the one next in merit; Provided: That the judges may, by a unanimous
Liszt will give a series of piano recitals next month in the salons of the vote, if none are considered of sufficient merit, award only the second prize;
Countess Czartoryska at Vienna. Liszt proposes in the course of the spring in which case the first prize shall be considered open for further com-
to revisit Raiding, where he was born, and Oedenburg and Pressburg; at the petition.
FOURTH.—Manuscripts to be delivered addressed to the President of the
former of which towns he made his de'bui about sixty-one years ago.
Club, not later than October 15, 1881. They shall be sealed and contain
Tschaikowsky has produced at St. Petersburg a new opera, '' The Virgin only the private mark of the composer. Each competitor shall, also in a
of Orleans."
separate sealed envelope (to be opened in the presence of the Club after the
At Leipsic the University choir of St. Paul produced a cantata for solo- award of the prize), give his name and private mark, to enable the Club to
ists, male chorus, and entitled " Die Hunnenschlacht," by Herr Heinrich return the manuscript.
FIFTH.—The Club shall have the privilege of publishing the prize com-
ZoUner.
positions if it so elects.
At the Seventeenth Gewandhaus concert Jadassohn's 100th Psalm for
SIXTH.—The prize compositions shall be produced at a regular meeting
double chorus, alto, solo, and orchestra was produced.
of the Musical Club.
SEVENTH.—A committee of seven to be appointed by the Board of Direc-
At Valencia Anton Rubinstein had at his recital a silver wreath from the
A. HOWARD HINKLE, President.
students at the University, and numbers of bouquets. After the recital a tors, will officiate as judges.
CHAPMAN JOHNSON, Secretary.
military band played the Russian national anthem in front of his hotel.
At the Liverpool Philharmonic concert, March 15, the newly married
wife of Herr Max Bruch appeared as a vocalist. Verdi's " Requiem " and
Mendelssohn's 30th Psalm were in the programme.
WHAT THEY SAY.
A new Conservatory is to be erected in Liege at a cost of 800,000 francs,
towards which the Government contributes 500,000; the Province, 150,000;
THE LOGIC OP COUNTERPOINT.
and the Town, 150,000.
Rule 7 of Cherubini's code of laws says that, " False gelation of the
The New Society of Music, at Brussels, will shortly give its first per- octave and of the tritone should be avoided." In his consequent remarks
formance, the work selected being the "Damnation de Faust," by Hector on the nature of what is called relationship, he says that the nature of the
interval, or combination, is false, when there is any alteration in either of
Berlioz. Warnots is appointed Director.
directions, augmentation or diminution. Of course, intervals producing
Spontini's "Vestalin " is in rehearsal at the Imperial Opera House, the
false relationship in combination, produce a similar tone-discrepancy when
Vienna. The leading characters are entrusted to Mdmes. Friedrich-Materna, taken separately in melodic or single note succession.
Ehnn, Herren Labatt, Rokitansky, and Horwitz.
There is around this topic of relationship versus false relationship,
M. A. Vizentini, who from next season will be manager of the Italian foundation enough for a volume of thoughts on musical metaphysics.
For brevity and clearness, let me endeavor to point out something of
Opera, St. Petersburg, has already engaged Mdmes. Sembrich and Marie
the direction of such thoughts, as regards the melodic intervals only; mean-
Durand, M. Devoyod, Signors Masini and Cotogni.
be it understood, that through the underneath harmonic bearings of
No fewer than 11 masses and 43 pieces of chamber-music have been sent while,
different sounds, the observations apply alike to the combined or distinct
in by competitors for the prize offered by the Academia Filarmonica, Bologna, the
enunciation of succeeding sounds.
for the best work in each of these two styles.
The false relation of the diminished octave C to C flat, ceases when the
Edgar Tinel, " prix de Rome," has been appointed director of the similar interval, C to B, appears as a major seventh. This form of the inter-
val, though disagreeable (from another cause), is much less harsh than the
School of Religious Music at Malines, in place of the deceased Lemmens.
from C to C flat. The reason lies in the fact that the major seventh
Mdlle. Monica von Terminsky, a young Russian pianist, has been well leap
may
appear as the passionate expression of the elements of one or two chords
received in Berlin.
naturally together, and common to the same harmonic strata. Thus, the C
It is said that Tamberlik intends visiting Porto Rico with an Italian belonging to its own root, might (as an extreme melodic expression) be suc-
ceeded by its major seventh B, as the thirteenth of the chord of D; an effect,
operatic company.
at times, justifiable, if properly followed up. Now, the possible harmonic
A new theatre, capable of containing about 2,000 persons, will be opened relationship concerning the notes C and C flat, taken in succession, is far
in April at Alicante.
too remote to be available. Again other reasons would stand in the way of
Keler-Bela, of Wiesbaden, has composed a new series of Hungarian such a succession. In leaping (to suppose all but impossible progressions)
from C to C flat, with their respective harmonic ranges, violation would be
Dances.
done to a possible chromatic descent of a semitone; in springing from C up
Mdlle. Marianne Viardot, daughter of the well-known dramatic singer, to C flat, supposing C as its own root, or as part of the chord F or of A flat
Pauline Viardot Garcia, is about to marry M. Duvernoy, author of "La and C flat as the seventh of the chord of D flat, then the leading function of
Tempete."
C to D flat, the root of the chord to which C flat would belong, would be
During the last rehearsal of " Der Freischiitz " at the Scala, Milan, a destroyed. Other similar discrepancies could be traced out, to show that
mason fell from the roof on to the stage, and was at once conveyed to the the skip, by ascent, from C to C flat, should be regarded as impossible of
satisfactory connection.
hospital.
The objection to such false relationship arises from a subtle mental pen-
Besides the Scala and Dal Verme, the Teatro Castelli, Teatro S. Radi-
of an all but absolute want of connection between the harmonic ele-
gonda, and, perhaps, the Carcano, will be open for opera this spring in etration
ments concerned, in the two objectionable sounds, forming the progression.
Milan.
Similarly, the interval of the augmented octave, from C to C sharp, is
The new opera of the Intendant-General, Von Perfall, at Munich, was to be protested against; as in melody, the skip would leap over the natural
produced on the 25th of March. The original title, "Die Schone Melusine," chromatic succession of the semitone, from the upper C to C sharp; as in
has been changed to " Raimondin."
harmony, the lower C could not advance over the upper C to C sharp, not-
withstanding any point of relationship in the several harmonic strata which
Mdlle. Weckerlin, who has resumed her place at the Theatre Royal, might
clothe such aprogression.
Munich, after a long illness, has been appointed a Royal Bavarian Ohamber-
Now, the interval of the minor ninth, from C to D flat (which, like that
Singer.
of the major seventh, has been boldly and happily employed by Mendelssohn
The sisters Douste have returned to Brussels after a tour in Germany.
and other composers) is quite a feasible interval, even though it may not be
Sophie Menter, who has never played before in Paris, took part in M. too frequently used. Its feasibility though would cease, were the two notes
forming the interval, to be employed in two roots with no natural or very
Pasdeloup's Concert Populaire, on the 20th of March.
remote connections; thus, C leaping a minor ninth to D flat, with the last-
The next triennial musical festival at Norwich will begin on Tuesday, named sound as its own root, would be an impossible progression, if for no
October 11th, and will end on the following Friday. The Prince of Wales other reason, for the overlooked leading functions of C to the nearest D flat
has consented to become President of the festival. Among the new works a semitone higher. On the other hand, the rise of a minor ninth, with both
which will be produced are a sacred cantata by Mr. A. Cowen, a cantata by notes as of one common harmonic range, is, though a strained, a not
Sir Julius Benedict, and a symphonic poem by Mr. J. F. Barnett. The unnatural melodic leap.
other leading works selected for performance are Handel's oratorio, " The
There is something strangely subtle in the operations of the intelligent
Messiah;" Mendelssohn's oratorio, "St. Paul;" Dr. Sullivan's cantata, "The and more or less trained mind, when engaged in the dissection of musical
Martyr of Antioch;" Berlioz's dramatic legend, " Faust," and Mendelssohn's progressions. Be it observed too, that the mind is only prone to accept
"Athalia." Signor Randegger will be conductor.
natural or linked connections; as fixed in the very creation of the wonderful
The Baroness Vigier (Sophie Cruvelli) was to play Elsa in "Lohengrin" harmonic relationship from the beginning of time, which was to be slowly
and patiently brought to man's high use and enjoyment, by the tone agent
for a charity at Nice, March 17th.
and tone distributor—the musician of profound instincts and large
At the last Gewandhaus concert at Leipsic a second symphony in B flat experience.
by Herr Richard Kleinmichel was performed with fair success.
greatest composers are those, who, putting together the elements of
The London Figaro is responsible for the following: Mr. James Gordon their The
tone
most strongly, as most naturally, produce music accept-
Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald, has engaged Johann Strauss to able to the language,
great
majority
of human minds.
give concerts (it is said private concerts for Mr. Bennett's friends) at Pau
When
we
say
that
one
of our ton*! monarchs is immortal, we merely
for a month. Mr. Bennett, it is stated, guarantees $22,000.
imply that he has had penetration and souse enough, not only to successfully
M. Gounod has completed the first part of his new oratorio, "The appeal to the largest number of minds of his own time, but to forsee how
Redemption," which he undertook to write for the Birmingham Musical by his strength through naturalness, to affect minds, living under the same
Festival to be held in 1882. The other two parts are promised by the 1st of impulses, in all times. (One of a series of articles by E. H. Turpin.)
January next.
Musical Standard, London,
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