Show draw on all sources for national music national music has to he be discovered and clad in beautiful forms forma just ns popular and legends are brought to light lle ht and ant crystallized into immortal verses by gre great at putts poets all ali that Is required Is a guild good ear a goud good memory and a faculty for molding fragments of post past generations into u harmonic whole A few lass dais ago I 1 rend read that brahms according ncr ordina to his on oan won hunts is took folk tunes as motives motive for ills new collection collect lon of songs an all arranged them for panno liszt in III ills his lin doodles poodles did tile the tiie and iann a n 11 in h his tiu grenadiers Grena diers used he Marsell inise the irishman balfe used a choler in ills his BOlle minn girl although nobody knows where lie he si got it from thus coonor or lailer popular music at the attention of and bonds Us its way into the works of great composers I 1 know that the question whether inspiration drawn from rona seme stray melody or folk full song Is sufficient clent to lend higher musical works a national nut lonal character hns has not yet been solved neither Is it certain whether voli ether national music as such deserves priority I 1 tor for myself believe firmly that that music which Is tile most leof a notion nation deserves the greatest recognition dvorak in a letter written from |