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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1916)
Our Women and Children Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards. VALUE OF FOLK SONG MUSIC What a Southern Newspaper Says of Our Progress as Composers Under the caption, “The Negro In Music,” the Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch in a recent issue says: Assuming that the basis of what is termed national music is found in folk song, it may be urged that Amer ican music, so far as it is peculiarly American, is based on Negro melo dies. This finds support, for example, in Dvorak’s “Symphony Fj-om the Newr World,” which abounds in mel odies strikingly suggestive of our plantation tunes. True, it is contended that none of these melodies is to be found in Ne gro music in the form in which Dvorak wrote them, but the influence tH the plantation song is apparent in every interval, every melodic curve. Of Indian music as it survives to us there is much to be said, but the scope of Negro folk song is of more immediate importance since its ef fect is more widely felt. But the Negro is not confined in music to melodies crooned in the fiefd or wailed in meetings or chanted on decks. The Negro musician is be coming less essentially Negro and more widely musical. In other words, here and there Negroes are writing music, not merely repeating tradition al tunes from generation to genera tion, but composing music that has no racial qualities to set it apart. In churches all over the English speaking world choirs are singing the works of Coleridge Taylor, a Negro whose death a few years ago was re gretted by all the world of music, and choral societies are singing his beau tiful setting of “Hiawatha.” Only recently Amato, the great Italian baritone, sang in a concert in New' York a song of warring Italy which was composed by Harry G. Burleigh, a modern American Negro, whose music has been played here frequently. A GIRL’S FRIENDS Much of the happiness of life de pends on making a wise choice of friends. A girl’s friends and companions show just what sort of a girl she is. A girl who is refined in her tastes will not associate with those who are loud in manner, coarse in speech, con spicuous in dress. One must remember that “no friend ship is worth the name which does not elevate and does not help to no bility of conduct and to strength of character. It should give new zest to duty and new inspiration to all that is good.”—Ex. “IS IT I?” The following conversation took place between two unlettered Ethio pians who had been listening to the grandiloquent expostulations of one of kindred color with mediocre attain ments who was afflicted with a bad disease of “egotitis” and an overween ing sense of his own importance and accomplishments. “Who am dat, Sam ?” “I dunno what his name am,” Sam replied, “but he certainly do recommen’ hisself mos’ highly.” "Lord, is it I?” (This lullaby, written by a Negro, s taken from a new Negro publica tion, “The Brown Book.” LULLABY Frankie Carter DeBerry Rocky-by-by! Rocky-by-by! Time dat yo’ aih sleepin’; See de moon des ober de hill At dis bad boy a-peepin’? Down in de medder de li’l lam’s Side ba side, quiet dey’s layin’; En yo’ so ugly—Ah, ’clare, whut a boy! W’en yo' b’en all day a-playin’ Rocky-by-by! Rocky-by-by! Com’ heah, ole moon, wid yo’ wun big eye; Tek dis boy outen his mammy’s ahms, En tek him way wid yo’—way up in de sky! Rocky-by-by! Rocky-by-by! Katy-dids dey aih a-singin’— Doan yo’ heah de frogs by de pon' How de got dey musick a-ringin’? But de moon es watchin’ yo’ des de same, Wid his big bright eyes des a gleamin’! So hug me up closter, ter keep him erway Whole yo’ ob termorrow es dream in’— Rocky-by-by! Rocky-by-by! Stay ’way, old moon ,stay up in de sky; Leabe dis boy in his mammy’s ahms, Ease he draf ter sleep 'way bimeby! MISS MADELINE ROBERTS THANKS FRIENDS Omaha, Neb., July 18, 1916. Editor Monitor: Please grant me space in your col umns to thank my many friends for their loyal support and assistance in the Free Trip Contest, by which that very worthy institution, the N. W. C. A., has been enabled to practi cally pay for its home. It was be cause the cause was so worthy that I consented to become one of the contestants. I knew it meant a great deal of hard work, but I was willing to do what I could. My votes were all secured from Omaha friends and from friends in Oakland, Cal., Seat tle, Wash.; and Twin Falls, Idaho. None of the donations were in large sums, but every dime given counted and was fully appreciated. I am sure all the girls did their best and I hope and believe they are all as hap py as I am to know that the home will be paid for. I congratulate Miss Shaw upon her success in winning the first prize. And I do want my friends to know how' grateful I am for the 2165 votes they gave me. Sincerely and gratefully, MADELINE Z. ROBERTS, 2610 North Twenty-eighth ave. Mrs. Mary E. Allen, matron; Mrs. Lucy Wade, past matron; and Mrs. Kate Wilson, past grand letcurer, left Tuesday for Kansas City, Mo., where they will represent Shaffer Chapter No. 42 at the Grand Chapter, O. E. S., of Missouri and its jurisdiction, which convened in that city on Wednesday. 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