Music in Art (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1903 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. WORSHIP "Praise the Lord with harp; sing unto him with the psalter and an instrument of ten strings. Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise."--Psalm XXXIIT. USIC has been an inseparable part of the worship of all ages. It is the expression of man's deeper nature, the voice of his soul, and from the dawn of worship there have been hymns and chorales. Her voice was heard in the earliest religious rites. The morning stars sang together at the creation, and angelic choirs celebrated the birth of Christ. It was heaven itself that taught man the song of praise, and pagans as well as Christians used it. 206 Art could not fail to reveal the inseparable nature of the two. It is seen in the bas-reliefs of Egypt as early as the fourth dynasty. The Sphinx-guarded tombs of Memphis and Thebes--the pyramids themselves--all bear witness to the deeply religious feeling of her people, which found expression here, as in Greece, in music. Not in the joyous worship of the Northern nations, for the sober religious ceremonial of the Egyptian was ever shadowed by his belief in judgment to come. Harps, --the most ancient of which history speaks, --lutes, single and double flutes, kettle-drums, and the jingling sistrum are represented on the tombs of El Amarna. Herodotus calls attention to the beautiful Egyptian melody, " Maneros," or the " Lament of Isis over the Death of Osiris, the Apollo of Egypt." Luis Falero, one of the greatest artists of the modern Spanish school, has, in his painting, "Prayer to Isis," imagined a priestess of that goddess chanting her prayer from a temple roof in Thebes. It is evening. Twilight fills the sky as the hymn of the kneeling young priestess rises in gratitude, to--. "The Life in Life, the Dream within the Dream, The ...