Calvinism a life-system - pagina 233

CALVINISM AND ART.

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the

modern music had its rise. same way Bourgeois adopted the harmony

the

song

of tunes, from which

of

several

wedded melody

The

solfeggio,

by what

is

by

the

In

or

man who

called expression.

note, the reduction

chords, the clearer distinction of the

by which

simiolified,

is

all

of this 'Calvinistic Composer.

once at

colleague,

Calvinistic

He was

the singing

i.e.

several gamuts, etc.,

was so much

parts.

to verse

number of

of the

all

the knowledge of music

owing

to the perseverance

And when Goudimel, his Rome the teacher of the

great Palestrine, listening to the singing of the people in

the church, discovered that the higher voices of the

children outstripped the tenor, which had thus far held the lead, he for the

first

time gave the leading part to

a change of far-reaching influence which

soprano;

the

has ever since been maintained.

me

Pardon

if

these

particulars,

more

particularly

high

an

protest.

order I

for

I

detained you with

but the merits of Protestantism, and of Calvinism,

to

fully

moment

a

suffer

longer

in

music are of too

depreciation

without

acknowledge that Calvinism exercised

over some arts only an indirect influence, by the decla-

and by affording them

liberty

own independence, but on

music,

ration of their maturity,

to

flourish

their

in

the influence of Calvinism was a very positive one, due to

its

spiritual

for the

more

worship of God, which provided no room material arts, but assigned a

new

role to

song and to music by the creation of melodies and

Whatever the old school did to the newer development of music, the mo-

songs for the people. join itself to

dern

music

remained

unnatural to the cantus firmus.

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