Educational Department »»♦ It waa o»t till the cine* of the nlMth century that instrumental a*aria «aa generally cultivated. Althoogh the old Roams, He haaaa and Peseta apa 1 avieh in Urit praise of the indescribable «0«*i of Instrumental music, lbs rode constructed iustrum.TTte Old Oiwlji, Hebrews oaed in their toaplee wo oaly used to mark the rytbm and enliven the aaered intro* ik woaao chore bee of the The different Celts made aovatai spades of inatnrmenta. The want prominent instruments with Pm Celts, at that time, awn to have been rim Inlah harps, and mad the erowth, or Rotta. Tlw Mtta waa made somewhat like oar violin. Whan rim Germane name to the southern provinces of Samps, they brought several dif ferent makes of instruments. Bat men of talent did not begin ta perfect the amqhsnism of the Brimeol instruments. until the fanaaal introduction of harmony. Instrumental mueic not need for church services waa detested by the most accomplished muei ®*ans. The composition of aaah aaaaieaaslaft totbe uneducated men and women. They had laws of their own, sanctioned fay the king, and enjoyed many privi mpm. liny famished marie for the festivals. The heed, or lead er, was called “King of the Pip* emT or the Tiddlera.” of the middle e minstrels end The mono-books of the six teenth centmy nontainqd many dances, ntn, ate. They ware eomposed for tha 'organ, harpsi chord, guitar, late and a few oth amsieande vary alow progreaa daring tha sixteenth cantary. tllh awd marie, a> that time, attained to a my high da graaef perfection. Tha marie ian selected piejee written in polyphonic style, like Ci a sarioas ahessoter. We 'often Seed of the pages of motets end that they auy be song, on different inatru prpaea that inair n fa its forma, as of eosal mnaie, is a modem art, not over three handred years old. Com* la tha sixteenth oratory, attention to the* aS fn the efaroh The Nether U*dere did a great deal for the advancemeut of iuetrmueutMi mu cic. Onr upright grand pianofortes •urang from the virginal, th« spinet, the clavichord and the harpsichord. They used wooden pioka to strifes the string*. The lute seems to have been the most favored of all instruments daring the sixteenth century. It had from eight to twenty-four etringe, and was made somewhat like the guitar. Musical art eoeme to have changed entirely afUr the intro duction of the dramatic element, by Monteverde. He was one of tbs first masters whs used the dominat seventh and the tonic chorde, as they are used in our modern sense. The material for our modern music began to devel op itself with mere freedom and fluency with the major and modes. As time passed, composers devot ed more time to the study of in strumental music, and to the per fection of the different instru ments. Dcminie# Scarlatti composed operatic and church musio, but i his greatest merit} lay in his com positions for the harpsichord. 'Ha was one of the;finest perform ess on the harpeiohord, that over lived. Raoeiugrave said when he heard him, ”Whon I heard him, I thought ten hundred davils had bean at the instrument; I never heard each passages and execution before.” After tm beginning of the tev entrentli century, . instrumental music made wonderful progress in Germany. The talented men of Germany devoted all their energy to the study and development of instrumental music. We see in strumental music gradually grow ing, till we oome to a list of Ger ms* organists, whojevolutionized instrumental music. At this ep och, i. 8. Bach, the greateet of »U argtitttta, conrte forward with his uneqnalled'talent. The vast number of immortal works which he has left for the organ, will serve as the foundation of all true organ playing, as they will also remain the lofty study of every earnest, striving organist for all time to come. As we come to the epoch of P. S. Bach, J. Hayden, Mosart and Beethoven, we find that the in strumental fugue, the canon, the suite have reached their highest degree of development. Liszt, though universally admired and acknowledged aa the greateet pi anist that ever lived, haa not yet found general recognition aa a composer i w«u close dj using sue follow ing quotation from Winterileld: “Art only reveals her deepest ee erets to thorn who el ing with true self-denial, and from a pnre love, but not to thorn who desire some thing different from her, who would make an ostentatious .dis play of. her, and to whom the is nothing higher then a o harming mistress. Although ebs may shed •round even these artiste some re heetiou of her light, it resembles the brilliant, but swiftly fading glow of mnaet, to *bioh e deep obaeurity wieeeeda. May thorn understand this metaobor who ehrsteh out their arms to her, for* they will mareiv reeeive from her that whioh they demand. 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