Revelations of a child's extra-mary appreciation of tone values are contained in a short study of. Anthony Carey Lewis, an eight-year-old composer, which appears in the August number of the British Music Society '"Bul-latin.'
His first composition, a tiny melody eight bars long, was written at the age of six and since then he has written sonatas studies, songs, marches, and even fugues.
At eight years of age," continues the writer, his sense of sound has greatly developed, for besides recognizing all chords and the keys of the various items at concerts he goes to, it is evident also that many thines in Nature have. distinct musical meanings for him."
Thus the boy declares that the call of a certain bird is to him a "split? chord. He dislikes some keys, and sounds.
At one time he had a great aversion for the key of G minor, which he said reminded him The last part of the Andante' of Beethoven's Sonata in G (Op. 14. No. 2) reminds him of "stmmer grasses blowing in the wind."
"This sensitiveness to sound is responsible for amusingly sweep ing criticisms,'' says the writer, "He does not care for some of Ghopin's music, deslarine that the discords there" mako him shiver, and that, besides, Chopin doesn't work his thines out!"
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