Calvinism a life-system - pagina 232

CALVINISM AND ART.

228

To

melodies from the free world of music.

by doing this, they adopted the but as Douen rightly remarks, only

people's in

be sure, melodies,

order that they

might return these melodies to the people purified and baptized flourish,

Christian

in

Music also

seriousness.

henceforth,

of particular grace, but in the wide and

common

grace.

would

not within the narrow limitations

The

choir

was

fertile fields

abandoned

;

in

of

the

sanctuary the people themselves would sing, and therefore Bourgeois

him,

and the

Calvinistic virtuosi

make

were bound to

popular melodies, but with

now in

their this

who

selectioiis

end

followed

from the

in view, viz., that

the people would no longer sing in the saloon or

the street, but in the sanctuary, and thus, in their

melodies, cause the seriousness of the heart to triumph

over the heat of the lower passions. If

this

is

the general merit of Calvinism, or rather

the change which

by forcing the

it

effected

in the

domain of music,

idea of the laity to give

room

to that

of the general priesthood of believers, historic accuracy

more concrete elucidation. If Bourgeois was the great master whose works still assure him requires a

a

front

still

rank

among

Protestant Europe,

it

the is

most notable composers of also

Bourgeois lived and laboured

worthy of note that in

this

Geneva, under the very

eyes of Calvin and even partly under his direction.

It

this same Bourgeois who had the courage to adopt rhythm and to exchange the eight Gregorian modes for the two of major and minor from the popular music; to sanctify its art in consecrated hymn, and so to put

was

the impress of honour

upon that musical arrangement

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