Parlour Songs
HE Southern Singers, from 4x2, unashamedly called their programme Part Songs of Other Days, as if to warn off the critical listener who might decry ' the items on the score of old-fashioned sentiment. No apology is needed for such a programme, for, as the announcer
said, the songs chosen were all melodious and pleasantly harmonised examples of the part song, afd sung in a smooth and polished style that made _ for good listening. But as the title indicates, this four-square typé of part song is
now dated. Selections like O Who Will O’er the Downs, and Hail, Smiling Morn bring to mind the days of parlour concerts, feminine bustles, and waxed male mustachios, and are appropriately resurrected nowadays only in some such nostalgic programme as this. By selecting part songs from a previous or later period, singers have @ choice of good madrigals or interesting modern songs, and in either case the gain in musical vitality is worth the effort of learning something more diffienlt fram the point of view of the
singers and the listener.
D.
S.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 532, 2 September 1949, Page 11
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179Parlour Songs New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 532, 2 September 1949, Page 11
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