| Show ANIMALS AND MUSIC A all LI vine thins sen etire to tone the influence of music on man animals and plants was discussed by director asger hamerik in a lecture at the peabody conservatory of tho second part of his subject ho said there is no doubt of power in animals All singing birds are subject to the influence the the mouse and the snake can be charmed with tunes I 1 saw on st paul street one day a runaway horse stop suddenly where a street organ was being played and tremble all over I 1 had a gordon setter that would play with his paw on the keyboard of my piano and with a kind of murmur try to imitate the human voice making an effect that it not musical showed at least that the dogs mind attempted something in that direction 1 I have had personal experience with the musical qualities of mice for I 1 once used to play the piano in a room where there were many mice when I 1 played for a little while out would come trooping a critical audience of mice which seemed perfectly tame so long as the music lasted I 1 experimented with them again and again and arrived at the conclusion that they undoubtedly were in some way influenced by and very susceptible cep tible to music I 1 grew tired of my faithful auditors after awhile and closed tho doore of the concert hall to them by having a tinner cover the holes and cracks in the floor the song of the bird and the crowing of the rooster are not their conversation they have a kind of chirping for that what then do the song and the crowing mean joy contentment exultation as with man when a rooster has had a good dinner or when the sun shines brightly and warmly or when any other cause makes it think that life is worth living the rooster crows joyously music ie with man also au expression of emotion but with him it has been reduced to a and is not therefore used naturally for every expression of happiness with the uneducated and unscientific rooster or songbird 1 I believe eliat everything created like ourselves with eara is susceptible to musical tones and it ia probable that it we could only find it out there is musical material in all such animals that could be developed and cultivated in some way baltimore sun |
