Pearson's Magazine 1907. (nem teljes évfolyam) [antikvár]

Copfjrigiit. A Woodland Symphony. From the Painting by IF. Hounson Byles. From the Plate published by the " SJcetrh.' Ausic in Art. By Adrian Margaux. For music, as its twin sister in art, painting has always shown a great affection. Orpheus and Cecilia in classic story were favourite subjects with the Old Masters; to-day our painters show an equal readiness to depict the part which music has in the actual human life of the past and the present. On the walls of the Royal Academy in quite recent years there have been exhibited canvases from which it would be possible to construct an almost complete history of music from the ancient reeds and pipes and thepastoralmelody to the modern pianoforte and the drawing-room ballad. It would seem from such inquiry as I have made that of more modern instruments the guitar and the fiute, the 'cello and the flute and, of course, the piano, have been most favoured in painting. The violin has been comparatively neglected—why it would be difficult to explain. The same fate has befallen the organ—although this is the mstrument depicted in Mr. Frank Dicksee's famous " Harmony "-—and when it is considered how its size dwarfs the human figure this perhaps is not surprising. Stringed instruments, generally, have an easy victory over wind instruments, as was to be e.xpected also, having regard to the unfavourable effect which the playing of the latter has upon face and figure. Only one painter in recent years, as far as I can discover, has ventured on a bagpipe picture. This was ]Mr. Lance Calkin, whose "The Campbells are Coming" is, it must be admitted, a triumph of picturesque composition. The background of this picture was not a Scottish village, as one might hastily suppose. It was painted rather more than twenty years ago, Mr. Calkin tells me, on the Portsmouth road, at the outskirts of the town of Godal-ming. " The subject," he says, " is often seen in country villages, and the gay uniform of the Scotch piper naturally is a great attraction to the children and village maidens.