One Way Of Judging Music.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 17 September 1891, Page 3

One Way Of Judging Music.

Tb ore is a very simple method by which eveu the greatest sceptic may ascertain whether a piece of music is good, bad, or indifferent. It is as follows: -If the music goes " 1, 2, 8, hop, hop, hop," or' 1, 2, 3, bum, bum, bum " you may depend upon it that yon are listening to unmitigated rubbisb. But when you bear music which sounds as though a number of we! I -arranged notes wore stuck into a barrel and euergetica'ly stirred about like a harmonious o:tmoal porridge, then you may assu ue that it is a fugue, and at onco compose your features into an expression of prjfound interest. If, on listening to the music, you fancy the notes are dropping accidenally ou the floor, and from time to tiin3 asserting themselves again in a quiet dreamy sort of way, then the pie:e ia probibly a nocturno, find noeturno.9, as you are aware, are very high-class music indeed. When the note 3 seem to arrive in truck loads and each truck contains, bo to speak, a different sort from the one that has gone before, aud when the train appenri to tike an unreasonable aniountof time in passing a given poiut, then the masterpiece is m^sr likely a symphony, and symphonies are the greatest musical creations hitherto produced. When it appears as though the not s had deen tumbled down belter- skelter, then vigorously shovelled up into a heap, and lastly blown into the air with dynamite cartridges, that is a rhadsody, and rhapsodies are the Iftteafc variety of music out.