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Title: Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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AN OLD GERMAN TOWN. THE SONGS OF THE RHINE. 257 tions and imitative. On the great organs at Basle and Frieburg theimitation of storms is sometimes produced. None of these storm-pieces, however, equal that which is dailyplayed in summer on the organ of Lucerne. This organ tempestmore greatly excited the Class than any music that they heard duringtheir journeys; and Master Beal made a record of it in verse, whichwe give at the close of the chapter. The children of Germany learn to read music at the same age that
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they learn to read books. Mu-sic is a part of their primaryschool — Kindergarten — edu-cation. The poorest childrenare taught to sing-. The consequence is that the Germans are a nation of singers.The organ is a power in the church, the military band at the festival,and the ballad in the concert-room and the home. These ballad-loving people are familiar with the best music. Tothem music is a language. Says Mayhew, in his elaborate work onthe Rhine, in speaking of the free education in music in Germany: To tickle the gustatory nerves with either dainty food or drink costs 17 258 ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN NORTHERN LANDS. some money; but to be able to reproduce the harmonious combina-tions of a Beethoven or a Weber, or to make the air tremble melodi-ously with some sweet and simple ballad, or even to recall the sonoroussolemnities of some prayerful chorus or fine thanksgiving in an ora-torio, is not only to fill the heart and brain with affections too deepfor words, but it is to be able to t

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