Calvinism - 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,

is

the

In

or

man who

called expression.

note, the reduction

of chords, the clearer distinction of the

by which

simplified,

is

all

of this Calvinistic Composer.

once at

colleague,

Calvinistic

He was

by what the singing by

several gamuts, etc.,

was so much

parts.

to verse i.e.

number

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 the church, discovered that the higher voices of the

in

children outstripped the tenor, which had thus far held

the lead, he for the

soprano

the

time gave the leading part to

first

a change of far-reaching influence which

;

has ever since been maintained.

me

Pardon

for

if

particulars,

more

particularly

an

protest.

order I

of Calvinism,

to

fully

I

detained you with

but the merits of Protestantism, and

these

high

moment

a

longer

suffer

in

music are of too

depreciation

without

acknowledge that Calvinism exercised

over some arts only an indirect influence, by the declaration of their maturity, to

flourish

in

their

and by affording them liberty

own

independence, but on music,

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

its

spiritual

for the

worship of God, which provided no roomj

more material

song and to

arts,

music by

but assigned a

the

new

role

toj

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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