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He was mainly noted for iiis skill in extemporizing, a gift, which, iniploying the highest musicianship, should not be ascribed to those who merely ram ble from chord to chord, without I heme, progression, or balance of parts. The art of extemporizing, "phantasieren," as the Germans poetically call it, began as long ago as the middle ages, when music and poety went hand and hand, and minstrels rehearsed deeds of chivalry, composing both words and music at the time. The "instrument of his own invention" which Yogler used as the vehicle of his inspiration, was a kind of organ, consisting of four key boards, beside a set of thirty-six pedals. It must have possessed abundant resources, and was call ed an orchestrion, probably on ac count of its likeness to the orches tra in producing variety of tone. Thus we see that it was no mythical personage whom Brown ing chose to express, through a monologue, the highest conception of music, its power over the soul, and its relation to life. Such an expression has never before or since been attempted by any poet. It differs front other rhapsodies on music in this, that Browning's flights of fancy had their origin in It is own knowledge, for his own training in the art had been most thorough, and he knew whereof he spoke. The tirst live verses of the poem contain a description of the won derful music, assisting the imagin ation by presenting objects of sight rather than sound. The music evoked by touching the keys of the instrument is called a "structure brave," comparing it to the legendary palace that Solo mon reared by means of his magic ring. The deep tones forming the foundation, are called "demons that lurk," the high tones are "an gels that soar," while the inter vening ones are all other created beings which rush into sight, and act as slaves to aid in completing the work. The progression of the music to a climax seems to be fig ured in the third verse by describ- THE GUILFORDIAN ing these minions mounting one above another, raising walls of gold till a pinnacle is reached in the sky, vieing in beauty with St. Peter's Cathedral at Rome, when, on a festal night, an illumination reveals its dome in full glory. In verses 4 and f> Drowning at tempts to describe the experience of a soul that had reached the highest point of exaltation, and is no longer subject to laws of time and space. The palace is peopled by spirits of those who had lived or were to live, satisfied to dwell in this honse not made with hands. In verses (> and 7 we find a song of gratitude and joy for the won derful faculty of the soul to ex press itself in sound, a medium so much more subtle and intangible than that of poet, painter or sculptor, that the musical com poser seems more than they to at tain to creative power— "All through my keys that gave their sound to a wish of my soul, All through my soul that praised as its wish flowed visibly forth, All through music and me! For think, had I painted the whole, Why, there it had stood, to see, nor the process so wonder-worth; Had I written the same, made verse— still, effect proceeds from cause, Ye know why the forms are fair, ye hear how the tale is told; It is all triumphant art, but art in obedience to laws, Painter and poet are proud in the art ist list enrolled; But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws that made them, and, lo! they are! 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