Calvinism - pagina 231

CALVINISM AND ART.

Even

as

in

22/

ecclesiastical-aristocratic period

the

was

it

only the high and the holy that interested the masters of the

pencil, so in

music the plain chant of Gregory

was dominant, which abandoned rhythm, despised har-

mony, and which according its

way

provisionally conservative character barred the

to the further artistic

by

to a professional critic,

development of music.

Far below

the level of this stately chant flowed the freer song of the

by the worship of

people, too often, alas, inspired

which

Venus,

festivals",

the times of the so called ^'donkey-

at

much

to the chagrin of ecclesiastical officials,

penetrated even the walls of the churches, and there

occasioned those repulsive scenes which the Council of

Trent

first

succeeded

The

putting under the ban.

in

church alone was privileged to make music, while that

which the people produced was scorned, as being beneath the dignity of the

Even

art.

in

the oratory

itself,

while the people were allowed to listen to the holy music,

they were forbidden to join art,

it

Only

in so far as

permitted to

undertook on

its

Protestantism

it

could serve the church

flourish artistically.

own

than the popular use. life.

Thus, as an

music was almost entirely deprived of its independent

standing.

was

song.

in the

responsibility,

And

in general,

as in

Whatever

had no higher

splendid

modern

arranged

the

singing that

it,

but Calvinism more con-

and the way opened to

development.

music

of the

call

every department of

sistently, bridled the tutelage of the church, so also

music emancipated by

it

The men who

Psalm

was

its

so

first

for the Calvinistic

were the brave heroes who cut the strands

bound us

to the

Cantus firmus, and selected their

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