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Show Tinlll.llon- A lUileal Novelty, The extremo badness of the words usually selected by musicians to write tunes around baa often been a matter for aarcaitlc comment. The musicians havo defended themselves by saying that tho words are ot the very smallest small-est Importance, bocause In nine cases out ot ten no one hears them. Singers, Sing-ers, so long as they bring out their notes clearly, have the smallest regard for the untortunato writer of the poem. Hut this sort ot tcud between ,verso wrltors.pad juuslciana,.ls .about to bo done nwny with, so It Is proclaimed pro-claimed by the minor poets of "young Ireland," who jjromlso a consequent boom In Irish vcro, Tho theory Is that Jrlsti poetry, minor or major, requires re-quires musical accompaniment to give It Its -full flavor, but when tho music rises to the dignity of n tuno the poetry poet-ry becomes too subordinate Hence a new species of music .has been specially Invented to accompany Irish -verso, and a conversazione has been held at which some of tho new music has been .performed. .per-formed. 'Jt Is icnlled cantllatlng, and consists of a long-drawn moaning, which 'Is something between a chant and a monotone, nnd the melancholy of the music Is said to be beyond anything any-thing ever heard before. Though It comoa forward aa a new mode, cantllatlng cantl-latlng is in reality as old as the Oreeks, with the difference that wbllo Greek music went by certain fixed rules, cantllatlng can-tllatlng Is left to the sweet will of the musicians. London Globo. |