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Show JVEW STATE SEES 1UE OF MUSIC Constitution of Fiume Sets Forth Attitude of People j The sixtv fourth section of the constitution con-stitution of the new Free Stale of ! Flume Is dev oted entirely to an ex Iplanatlon ot Die aitmirb of 'he state toward muplc Are there ans other .constitutions In "vhich music i- fo reoojrnlzeil The article In question Is published herewith 1' is from a eopy of the translation of the con ptltution furnished fli Standard-Examiner Standard-Examiner by Whitney Warren of New York City j Here is the Fertion on music "In the Italian Rrgenrv of Quartern Quar-tern music is a relic ion. and social linstihltlon. Every thousand years or , every two thousand years there springs from the depths of hurnanitv i hvnm tha' lives through th' ages I A great race is not only that race 'which creates its god m its own im age. but that race which also knows I how to create its own hymn for its god. If every rebirth of a noble rare lis a lyric effort, if every unanimous land creative sentiment is a lyric power, if every orcanjrai Ion Is a lyric organization in the dynamii ami impetuous sense of the word, music considered as a ritual language is ihe exalting motive of any aclion and of any creation in life. "The advent of every great spirit ual awakening always sterns to bo announced to the expectant and anxious anx-ious multitude thiough the medium of some overpowering musical mas terplece. The reign of the human spirit has not yei begun. When matter mat-ter working upon matter shall be 3b!e To free men from the clutches of toll, then the spirit will begin lo see Ihe dawn of its liberty.' so said a man irom Ihe Adrlaiic shores, a man from Dalmatia; the blind prophet of Sebonico As tbe i rowing or ihe cock invokes dnvbreak. so does mtlslc invoke dawn, excltal auroram. Mean while music finds lis moveniem apd its utterance in the instruments ot laboi. in gain and in play, ami in the roaring machinery which bIbo follows fol-lows as exact a rhylhm as docs poetry From lis pauros i lormed the silence of the tenth Corporation. Corpora-tion. In all commune.-; of Hie regency there will be formed choral and orchestral or-chestral groups aided by slate contribution, con-tribution, in the city of Fiume there has bec- Intrusted to ihe Bdiies the b'jllding of a rotunda capable of accommodating ac-commodating an audience ol til least ten thousand, furnished with comfortable com-fortable seats and a large pit ior the orchestra and for the chorti-. The big choral ar.d orchestral celebrations are 'entirely ftee" -OB the fathers or ibe chUtch say about tllfl grace or God." |