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Harris - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Extracts from the Galactick Almanack - -Author: Larry M. Harris - -Release Date: April 2, 2016 [EBook #51622] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EXTRACTS FROM GALACTICK ALMANACK *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="377" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>EXTRACTS FROM THE GALACTICK ALMANACK</h1> - -<p>Music Around the Universe</p> - -<p>By LARRY M. HARRIS</p> - -<p>Illustrated by DON MARTIN</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Galaxy Magazine June 1959.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3"><i>Don't take your eye off music ... there is<br /> -going to be a lot more to it than meets the ear!</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>This first selection deals entirely with the Music Section of the -Almanack. Passed over in this anthology, which is intended for -general readership, are all references to the four-dimensional doubly -extensive polyphony of Green III (interested parties are referred -to "Time in Reverse, or the Musical Granny Knot," by Alfid Carp, -<i>Papers of the Rigel Musicological Society</i>) or, for reasons of -local censorship, the notices regarding Shem VI, VII and IX and the -racial-sex "music" which is common on those planets.</p> - -<p>All dates have been made conformable with the Terran Calendar (as in -the standard Terran edition of the Almanack) by application of Winstock -Benjamin's Least Square Variable Time Scale.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><b>FEBRUARY 17</b>: Today marks the birth date of Freem Freem, of -Dubhe IV, perhaps the most celebrated child prodigy in musical -history. Though it is, of course, true that he appeared in no concerts -after the age of twelve, none who have seen the solidographs of -his early performances can ever forget the intent face, the tense, -accurate motions of the hands, the utter perfection of Freem's entire -performance.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus1.jpg" width="600" height="470" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>His first concert, given at the age of four, was an amazing spectacle. -Respected critics refused to believe that Freem was as young as his -manager (an octopoid from Fomalhaut) claimed, and were satisfied only -by the sworn affidavit of Glerk, the well-known Sirian, who was present -at the preliminary interviews.</p> - -<p>Being a Sirian, Glerk was naturally incapable of dissimulation, and his -earnest supersonics soon persuaded the critics of the truth. Freem was, -in actuality, only four years old.</p> - -<p>In the next eight years, Freem concertized throughout the Galaxy. His -triumph on Deneb at the age of six, the stellar reception given him by -a deputation of composers and critics from the Lesser Magellanic Cloud -when he appeared in that sector, and the introduction (as an encore) of -his single composition, the beloved <i>Memories of Old Age</i>, are still -recalled.</p> - -<p>And then, at the age of eleven, Freem's concerts ceased. Music-lovers -throughout the Galaxy were stunned by the news that their famed prodigy -would appear no longer. At the age of twelve, Freem Freem was dead.</p> - -<p>Terrans have never felt this loss as deeply as other Galactic races, -and it is not difficult to see why. The standard "year" of Dubhe IV -equals 300 Earth years; to the short-lived Terrans, Freem Freem had -given his first concert at the age of 1200, and had died at the ripe -old age of 3600 years.</p> - -<p>"Calling a 1200-year-old being a child prodigy," states the Terran -Dictionary of Music and Musicians, rather tartly, "is the kind of -misstatement up with which we shall not put."</p> - -<p>Particularly noteworthy is the parallel attitude expressed by the -inhabitants of Terk I, whose "year" is approximately three Terran days, -to the alleged "short" life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><b>MAY 12</b>: Wilrik Rotha Rotha Delk Shkulma Tik was born on this -date in 8080. Although he/she is renowned both as the creator of -symphonic music on Wolf XVI and as the progenitor of the sole Galactic -Censorship Law which remains in effect in this enlightened age, very -little is actually known about the history of that law.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus2.jpg" width="600" height="452" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>The full story is, very roughly, as follows:</p> - -<p>In 8257, a composition was published by the firm of Scholer and Dichs -(Sirius), the Concerto for Wood-Block and Orchestra by Tik. Since this -was not only the first appearance of any composition by Tik, but was -in fact the first composition of any kind to see publication from his -planet of Wolf XVI, the musical world was astonished at the power, -control and mastery the piece showed.</p> - -<p>A review which is still extant stated: "It is not possible that a -composition of such a high level of organization should be the first -to proceed from a composer—or from an entire planet. Yet we must -recognize the merit and worth of Tik's Concerto, and applaud the force -of the composer, in a higher degree than usual."</p> - -<p>Even more amazing than the foregoing was the speed with which Tik's -compositions followed one another. The Concerto was followed by a -sonata, Tik's <i>Tock</i>, his/her Free-Fall Ballet for Centipedals, -<i>Lights! Action! Comrades!</i>, a Symphony, an Imbroglio for Unstrung -Violin, and fourteen Wolfish Rhapsodies—<i>all within the year</i>!</p> - -<p>Scholars visited Wolf XVI and reported once again that there was no -musical history on the planet.</p> - -<p>Success, fame and money were Tik's. Succeeding compositions were -received with an amount of enthusiasm that would have done credit to -any musician.</p> - -<p>And Wolf XVI seemed to awaken at his/her touch. Within ten years, there -was a school of composition established there, and works of astounding -complexity and beauty came pouring forth. The "great flowering," as -it was called, seemed to inspire other planets as well—to name only a -few, Dog XII, Goldstone IX and Trent II (whose inhabitants, dwelling -underwater for the most part, had never had anything like a musical -history).</p> - -<p>Tik's own income began to go down as the process continued. Then the -astonishing truth was discovered.</p> - -<p>Tik was not a composer at all—merely an electronics technician! He/she -had recorded the sounds of the planet's main downtown business center -and slowed the recording to half-speed. Since the inhabitants of Wolf -XVI converse in batlike squeals, this slowing resulted in a series of -patterns which fell within sonic range, and which had all of the scope -and the complexity of music itself.</p> - -<p>The other planets had copied the trick and soon the Galaxy was glutted -with this electronic "music." The climax came when a judge on Paolo III -aided in the recording of a court trial over which he presided. During -the two weeks of subsonic testimony, speech and bustle, he supervised -recording apparatus and, in fact, announced that he had performed the -actual "arrangement" involved: speeding up the recordings so that the -two-week subsonic trial became a half-hour fantasia.</p> - -<p>The judge lost the subsequent election and irrationally placed the -blame on the recording (which had not been well-received by the -critics). Single-handed, he restored the state of pure music by pushing -through the Galactic Assembly a censorship rule requiring that all -recording companies, musicians, technicians and composers be limited to -the normal sonic range of the planet on which they were working.</p> - -<p>Tik himself, after the passage of this law, eked out a bare living as a -translator from the supersonic. He died, alone and friendless, in 9501.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><b>JUNE 4</b>: The composition, on this date, in 8236, of Wladislaw -Wladislaw's Concertino for Enclosed Harp stirs reflections in -musical minds of the inventor and first virtuoso on this instrument, -the ingenious Barsak Gh. Therwent of Canopus XII. Nowadays, with -compositions for that instrument as common as the <i>chadlas</i> of Gh. -Therwent's home planet, we are likely to pass over the startling and -almost accidental circumstance that led to his marvelous discovery.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus3.jpg" width="584" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>As a small boy, Gh. Therwent was enamored of music and musicians; -he played the <i>gleep</i>-flute before the age of eight and, using his -hair-thin minor arms, was an accomplished performer on the Irish (or -small open) harp in his fifteenth year. A tendency to confuse the -strings of the harp with his own digital extremities, however, seemed -serious enough to rule out a concert career for the young <i>flalk</i>, and -when an Earth-made piano was delivered to the home of a neighbor who -fancied himself a collector of baroque instruments, young Gh. was among -the first to attempt playing on it.</p> - -<p>Unfortunately, he could not muster pressure sufficient in his secondary -arms and digits to depress the keys; more, he kept slipping between -them. It was one such slip that led to his discovery of the enclosed -strings at the back of the piano (a spinet).</p> - -<p>The subtle sonorities of plucked strings at the back of a closed -chamber excited him, and he continued research into the instrument in -a somewhat more organized manner. Soon he was able to give a concert -of music which he himself had arranged—and when Wladislaw Wladislaw -dedicated his composition to Gh., the performer's future was assured.</p> - -<p>The rest of his triumphant story is too well known to repeat here. The -single observation on Gh. Therwent's playing, however, by the composer -Ratling, is perhaps worthy of note.</p> - -<p>"He don't play on the white keys, and he don't play on the black keys," -said Ratling, with that cultivated lack of grammar which made him -famous as an eccentric. "He plays in the cracks!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><b>JULY 23</b>: On this date, the Hrrshtk Notes were discovered in a -<i>welf</i>-shop cellar on Deneb III.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus4.jpg" width="600" height="443" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>These notes are, quite certainly, alone in their originality, and in -the force which they have had on the growth of subsequent musicians.</p> - -<p>To begin at the beginning: it is well established that Ludwig Hrrshtk, -perhaps the most widely known Denebian composer, died of overwork in -his prime. His compositions, until the famous T85 discoveries of G'g -Rash, were almost alone in their universal appeal. Races the Galaxy -over have thrilled to Hrrshtk's Second Symphony, his Concerto for Old -Men, and the inspiring Classic Mambo Suite. It is, as a matter of fact, -said that G'g Rash himself was led to his discovery by considering the -question:</p> - -<p>"How can many different races, experiencing totally different emotions -in totally different ways, agree on the importance of a single -musical composition by Hrrshtk? How can all share a single emotional -experience?"</p> - -<p>His researches delved deeply into the Hrrshtk compositions, and a -tentative theory based on the Most Common Harmonic, now shown to have -been totally mistaken, led to the T85 discoveries.</p> - -<p>The Hrrshtk notes, however, found long afterward, provide the real -answer.</p> - -<p>Among a pile of sketches and musical fragments was found a long -list—or, rather, a series of lists. In the form of a Galactic -Dictionary, the paper is divided into many columns, each headed with -the name of a different planet.</p> - -<p>Rather than describe this document, we are printing an excerpt from it -herewith:</p> - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Hrrshtk notes"> -<tr><th align="left">DENEB III</th><th align="left">TERRA</th><th align="left">MARS</th><th align="left">FOMALHAUT II</th><th align="left">SIRIUS VII</th></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Love</td><td align="left">Anger</td><td align="left">Hunger</td><td align="left">Sadness</td><td align="left">Madness</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Hate</td><td align="left">Joy</td><td align="left">F'rit</td><td align="left">Prayer</td><td align="left">Love</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Prayer</td><td align="left">Madness</td><td align="left">Sadness</td><td align="left">Full</td><td align="left">Joy</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Vilb</td><td align="left">NPE</td><td align="left">Non-F'rit</td><td align="left">Golk</td><td align="left">NPE</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p>In completed form, the document contains over one hundred and fifty -separate listings for race, and over six hundred separate emotional or -subject headings. In some places (like the Terra and Sirius listing -for Vilb, above), the text is marked NPE, and this has been taken to -mean No Precise Equivalent. For instance, such a marking appears after -the Denebian <i>shhr</i> for both Terra and Mars, although Sirius has the -listing <i>grk</i> and Fomalhaut <i>plarat</i> in the desert.</p> - -<p>Hrrshtk may be hailed, therefore, as the discoverer of the Doctrine -of Emotional Equivalency, later promulgated in a different form by -Space Patrol Psychiatrist Rodney Garman. Further, the document alluded -to above explains a phrase in Hrrshtk's noted letter to Dibble Young, -which has puzzled commentators since its first appearance.</p> - -<p>Hrrshtk is here alluding to the composition of his Revolutionary Ode, -which all Terra knows as the most perfect expression of true love to be -found in music:</p> - -<p>"It's a Revolutionary Ode to me, my friend—but not to you. As we say -here, one man's mood is another man's passion."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><b>SEPTEMBER 1</b>: On this date in the year 9909, Treth Schmaltar died -on his home planet of Wellington V. All the Galaxy knows his famous -Symphonic Storm Suite; less known, but equally interesting, is the -history and development of its solo instrument.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus5.jpg" width="600" height="454" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>The natives of Wellington V feed on airborne plankton, which is carried -by the vibrations of sound or speech. This was a little-known fact for -many years, but did account for the joy with which the first explorers -on Wellington V were greeted. Their speech created waves that fed the -natives.</p> - -<p>When eating, the natives emit a strange humming noise, due to the -action of the peculiar glottis. These facts drove the first settlers, -like Treth Schmaltar, to the invention of a new instrument.</p> - -<p>This was a large drumlike construction with a small hole in its side -through which airborne plankton could enter. Inside the drum, a -Wellingtonian crouched. When the drum was beaten, the air vibrations -drove plankton into the native's mouth, and he ate and hummed.</p> - -<p>(A mechanical device has since replaced the native. This is, of course, -due to the terrific expense of importing both natives and plankton to -other planets than Wellington V for concerts.)</p> - -<p>Thus, a peculiarity of native life led not only to the Symphonic Storm -Suite, but to such lovely compositions as Schmaltar's Hum-Drum Sonata.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><b>SEPTEMBER 30</b>: The victimization of the swanlike inhabitants of -Harsh XII, perhaps the most pitiful musical scandal of the ages, was -begun by Ferd Pill, born on this date in 8181. Pill, who died penitent -in a neuterary of the Benedictine Order, is said to have conceived his -idea after perusing some early Terran legends about the swan.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus6.jpg" width="600" height="440" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>He never represented himself as the composer, but always as the agent -or representative of a Harsh XII inhabitant. In the short space of -three years, he sold over two hundred songs, none of great length -but all, as musicians agree to this day, of a startling and almost -un-Hnau-like beauty.</p> - -<p>When a clerk in the records department of Pill's publishers discovered -that Pill, having listed himself as the heir of each of the Harsh XII -composers, was in fact collecting their money, an investigation began.</p> - -<p>That the composers were in fact dead was easily discovered. That Pill -was their murderer was the next matter that came to light.</p> - -<p>In an agony of self-abasement, Pill confessed his crime. "The Harshians -don't sing at all," he said. "They don't make a sound. But—like the -legendary swan of old Terra—they do deliver themselves of one song in -dying. I murdered them in order to record these songs, and then sold -the recordings."</p> - -<p>Pill's subsequent escape from the prison in which he was confined, and -his trip to the sanctuary of the neuterary, were said to have been -arranged by the grateful widow of one of the murdered Harshians, who -had been enabled by her mate's death to remarry with a younger and -handsomer Harshian.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><b>DECEMBER 5</b>: Today marks the birthday of Timmis Calk, a science -teacher of Lavoris II.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus7.jpg" width="600" height="443" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Calk is almost forgotten today, but his magnificent Student Orchestra -created a storm both of approval and protest when it was first seen -in 9734. Critics on both sides of what rapidly became a Galaxywide -controversy were forced, however, to acknowledge the magnificent -playing of the Student Orchestra and its great technical attainments.</p> - -<p>Its story begins with Calk himself and his sweetheart, a lovely being -named Silla.</p> - -<p>Though Calk's love for Silla was true and profound, Silla did not -return his affectionate feelings. She was an anti-scientist, a -musician. The sects were split on Lavoris II to such an extent that -marriage between Calk and his beloved would have meant crossing the -class lines—something which Silla, a music-lover, was unwilling to -contemplate.</p> - -<p>Calk therefore determined to prove to her that a scientist could be -just as artistic as any musician. Months of hard work followed, until -finally he was ready.</p> - -<p>He engaged the great Drick Hall for his first concert—and the program -consisted entirely of classical works of great difficulty. Beethoven's -Ninth Symphony opened the program, and Fenk's Reversed Ode closed it. -Calk had no time for the plaudits of critics and audience; he went -searching for Silla.</p> - -<p>But he was too late. She had heard his concert—and had immediately -accepted the marriage proposal of a childhood sweetheart.</p> - -<p>Calk nearly committed suicide. But at the last moment, he tossed the -spraying-bottle away and went back to Silla.</p> - -<p>"Why?" he said. "Why did you reject me, after hearing the marvelous -music which I created?"</p> - -<p>"You are not a musician, but a scientist," Silla said. "Any musician -would have refrained from <i>growing</i> his orchestra from seeds."</p> - -<p>Unable to understand her esthetic revulsion, Calk determined there and -then to continue his work with the Student Orchestra (it made a great -deal more money than science-teaching). Wrapping his rootlets around -his branches, he rolled away from her with crackling dignity.</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Extracts from the Galactick Almanack, by -Larry M. Harris - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EXTRACTS FROM GALACTICK ALMANACK *** - -***** This file should be named 51622-h.htm or 51622-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/6/2/51622/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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Harris - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Extracts from the Galactick Almanack - -Author: Larry M. Harris - -Release Date: April 2, 2016 [EBook #51622] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EXTRACTS FROM GALACTICK ALMANACK *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - EXTRACTS FROM THE GALACTICK ALMANACK - - Music Around the Universe - - By LARRY M. HARRIS - - Illustrated by DON MARTIN - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Magazine June 1959. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - Don't take your eye off music ... there is - going to be a lot more to it than meets the ear! - - -This first selection deals entirely with the Music Section of the -Almanack. Passed over in this anthology, which is intended for -general readership, are all references to the four-dimensional doubly -extensive polyphony of Green III (interested parties are referred -to "Time in Reverse, or the Musical Granny Knot," by Alfid Carp, -_Papers of the Rigel Musicological Society_) or, for reasons of -local censorship, the notices regarding Shem VI, VII and IX and the -racial-sex "music" which is common on those planets. - -All dates have been made conformable with the Terran Calendar (as in -the standard Terran edition of the Almanack) by application of Winstock -Benjamin's Least Square Variable Time Scale. - - * * * * * - -_FEBRUARY 17_: Today marks the birth date of Freem Freem, of -Dubhe IV, perhaps the most celebrated child prodigy in musical -history. Though it is, of course, true that he appeared in no concerts -after the age of twelve, none who have seen the solidographs of -his early performances can ever forget the intent face, the tense, -accurate motions of the hands, the utter perfection of Freem's entire -performance. - -His first concert, given at the age of four, was an amazing spectacle. -Respected critics refused to believe that Freem was as young as his -manager (an octopoid from Fomalhaut) claimed, and were satisfied only -by the sworn affidavit of Glerk, the well-known Sirian, who was present -at the preliminary interviews. - -Being a Sirian, Glerk was naturally incapable of dissimulation, and his -earnest supersonics soon persuaded the critics of the truth. Freem was, -in actuality, only four years old. - -In the next eight years, Freem concertized throughout the Galaxy. His -triumph on Deneb at the age of six, the stellar reception given him by -a deputation of composers and critics from the Lesser Magellanic Cloud -when he appeared in that sector, and the introduction (as an encore) of -his single composition, the beloved _Memories of Old Age_, are still -recalled. - -And then, at the age of eleven, Freem's concerts ceased. Music-lovers -throughout the Galaxy were stunned by the news that their famed prodigy -would appear no longer. At the age of twelve, Freem Freem was dead. - -Terrans have never felt this loss as deeply as other Galactic races, -and it is not difficult to see why. The standard "year" of Dubhe IV -equals 300 Earth years; to the short-lived Terrans, Freem Freem had -given his first concert at the age of 1200, and had died at the ripe -old age of 3600 years. - -"Calling a 1200-year-old being a child prodigy," states the Terran -Dictionary of Music and Musicians, rather tartly, "is the kind of -misstatement up with which we shall not put." - -Particularly noteworthy is the parallel attitude expressed by the -inhabitants of Terk I, whose "year" is approximately three Terran days, -to the alleged "short" life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. - - * * * * * - -_MAY 12_: Wilrik Rotha Rotha Delk Shkulma Tik was born on this -date in 8080. Although he/she is renowned both as the creator of -symphonic music on Wolf XVI and as the progenitor of the sole Galactic -Censorship Law which remains in effect in this enlightened age, very -little is actually known about the history of that law. - -The full story is, very roughly, as follows: - -In 8257, a composition was published by the firm of Scholer and Dichs -(Sirius), the Concerto for Wood-Block and Orchestra by Tik. Since this -was not only the first appearance of any composition by Tik, but was -in fact the first composition of any kind to see publication from his -planet of Wolf XVI, the musical world was astonished at the power, -control and mastery the piece showed. - -A review which is still extant stated: "It is not possible that a -composition of such a high level of organization should be the first -to proceed from a composer--or from an entire planet. Yet we must -recognize the merit and worth of Tik's Concerto, and applaud the force -of the composer, in a higher degree than usual." - -Even more amazing than the foregoing was the speed with which Tik's -compositions followed one another. The Concerto was followed by a -sonata, Tik's _Tock_, his/her Free-Fall Ballet for Centipedals, -_Lights! Action! Comrades!_, a Symphony, an Imbroglio for Unstrung -Violin, and fourteen Wolfish Rhapsodies--_all within the year_! - -Scholars visited Wolf XVI and reported once again that there was no -musical history on the planet. - -Success, fame and money were Tik's. Succeeding compositions were -received with an amount of enthusiasm that would have done credit to -any musician. - -And Wolf XVI seemed to awaken at his/her touch. Within ten years, there -was a school of composition established there, and works of astounding -complexity and beauty came pouring forth. The "great flowering," as -it was called, seemed to inspire other planets as well--to name only a -few, Dog XII, Goldstone IX and Trent II (whose inhabitants, dwelling -underwater for the most part, had never had anything like a musical -history). - -Tik's own income began to go down as the process continued. Then the -astonishing truth was discovered. - -Tik was not a composer at all--merely an electronics technician! He/she -had recorded the sounds of the planet's main downtown business center -and slowed the recording to half-speed. Since the inhabitants of Wolf -XVI converse in batlike squeals, this slowing resulted in a series of -patterns which fell within sonic range, and which had all of the scope -and the complexity of music itself. - -The other planets had copied the trick and soon the Galaxy was glutted -with this electronic "music." The climax came when a judge on Paolo III -aided in the recording of a court trial over which he presided. During -the two weeks of subsonic testimony, speech and bustle, he supervised -recording apparatus and, in fact, announced that he had performed the -actual "arrangement" involved: speeding up the recordings so that the -two-week subsonic trial became a half-hour fantasia. - -The judge lost the subsequent election and irrationally placed the -blame on the recording (which had not been well-received by the -critics). Single-handed, he restored the state of pure music by pushing -through the Galactic Assembly a censorship rule requiring that all -recording companies, musicians, technicians and composers be limited to -the normal sonic range of the planet on which they were working. - -Tik himself, after the passage of this law, eked out a bare living as a -translator from the supersonic. He died, alone and friendless, in 9501. - - * * * * * - -_JUNE 4_: The composition, on this date, in 8236, of Wladislaw -Wladislaw's Concertino for Enclosed Harp stirs reflections in -musical minds of the inventor and first virtuoso on this instrument, -the ingenious Barsak Gh. Therwent of Canopus XII. Nowadays, with -compositions for that instrument as common as the _chadlas_ of Gh. -Therwent's home planet, we are likely to pass over the startling and -almost accidental circumstance that led to his marvelous discovery. - -As a small boy, Gh. Therwent was enamored of music and musicians; -he played the _gleep_-flute before the age of eight and, using his -hair-thin minor arms, was an accomplished performer on the Irish (or -small open) harp in his fifteenth year. A tendency to confuse the -strings of the harp with his own digital extremities, however, seemed -serious enough to rule out a concert career for the young _flalk_, and -when an Earth-made piano was delivered to the home of a neighbor who -fancied himself a collector of baroque instruments, young Gh. was among -the first to attempt playing on it. - -Unfortunately, he could not muster pressure sufficient in his secondary -arms and digits to depress the keys; more, he kept slipping between -them. It was one such slip that led to his discovery of the enclosed -strings at the back of the piano (a spinet). - -The subtle sonorities of plucked strings at the back of a closed -chamber excited him, and he continued research into the instrument in -a somewhat more organized manner. Soon he was able to give a concert -of music which he himself had arranged--and when Wladislaw Wladislaw -dedicated his composition to Gh., the performer's future was assured. - -The rest of his triumphant story is too well known to repeat here. The -single observation on Gh. Therwent's playing, however, by the composer -Ratling, is perhaps worthy of note. - -"He don't play on the white keys, and he don't play on the black keys," -said Ratling, with that cultivated lack of grammar which made him -famous as an eccentric. "He plays in the cracks!" - - * * * * * - -_JULY 23_: On this date, the Hrrshtk Notes were discovered in a -_welf_-shop cellar on Deneb III. - -These notes are, quite certainly, alone in their originality, and in -the force which they have had on the growth of subsequent musicians. - -To begin at the beginning: it is well established that Ludwig Hrrshtk, -perhaps the most widely known Denebian composer, died of overwork in -his prime. His compositions, until the famous T85 discoveries of G'g -Rash, were almost alone in their universal appeal. Races the Galaxy -over have thrilled to Hrrshtk's Second Symphony, his Concerto for Old -Men, and the inspiring Classic Mambo Suite. It is, as a matter of fact, -said that G'g Rash himself was led to his discovery by considering the -question: - -"How can many different races, experiencing totally different emotions -in totally different ways, agree on the importance of a single -musical composition by Hrrshtk? How can all share a single emotional -experience?" - -His researches delved deeply into the Hrrshtk compositions, and a -tentative theory based on the Most Common Harmonic, now shown to have -been totally mistaken, led to the T85 discoveries. - -The Hrrshtk notes, however, found long afterward, provide the real -answer. - -Among a pile of sketches and musical fragments was found a long -list--or, rather, a series of lists. In the form of a Galactic -Dictionary, the paper is divided into many columns, each headed with -the name of a different planet. - -Rather than describe this document, we are printing an excerpt from it -herewith: - - DENEB III TERRA MARS FOMALHAUT II SIRIUS VII - Love Anger Hunger Sadness Madness - Hate Joy F'rit Prayer Love - Prayer Madness Sadness Full Joy - Vilb NPE Non-F'rit Golk NPE - -In completed form, the document contains over one hundred and fifty -separate listings for race, and over six hundred separate emotional or -subject headings. In some places (like the Terra and Sirius listing -for Vilb, above), the text is marked NPE, and this has been taken to -mean No Precise Equivalent. For instance, such a marking appears after -the Denebian _shhr_ for both Terra and Mars, although Sirius has the -listing _grk_ and Fomalhaut _plarat_ in the desert. - -Hrrshtk may be hailed, therefore, as the discoverer of the Doctrine -of Emotional Equivalency, later promulgated in a different form by -Space Patrol Psychiatrist Rodney Garman. Further, the document alluded -to above explains a phrase in Hrrshtk's noted letter to Dibble Young, -which has puzzled commentators since its first appearance. - -Hrrshtk is here alluding to the composition of his Revolutionary Ode, -which all Terra knows as the most perfect expression of true love to be -found in music: - -"It's a Revolutionary Ode to me, my friend--but not to you. As we say -here, one man's mood is another man's passion." - - * * * * * - -_SEPTEMBER 1_: On this date in the year 9909, Treth Schmaltar died -on his home planet of Wellington V. All the Galaxy knows his famous -Symphonic Storm Suite; less known, but equally interesting, is the -history and development of its solo instrument. - -The natives of Wellington V feed on airborne plankton, which is carried -by the vibrations of sound or speech. This was a little-known fact for -many years, but did account for the joy with which the first explorers -on Wellington V were greeted. Their speech created waves that fed the -natives. - -When eating, the natives emit a strange humming noise, due to the -action of the peculiar glottis. These facts drove the first settlers, -like Treth Schmaltar, to the invention of a new instrument. - -This was a large drumlike construction with a small hole in its side -through which airborne plankton could enter. Inside the drum, a -Wellingtonian crouched. When the drum was beaten, the air vibrations -drove plankton into the native's mouth, and he ate and hummed. - -(A mechanical device has since replaced the native. This is, of course, -due to the terrific expense of importing both natives and plankton to -other planets than Wellington V for concerts.) - -Thus, a peculiarity of native life led not only to the Symphonic Storm -Suite, but to such lovely compositions as Schmaltar's Hum-Drum Sonata. - - * * * * * - -_SEPTEMBER 30_: The victimization of the swanlike inhabitants of -Harsh XII, perhaps the most pitiful musical scandal of the ages, was -begun by Ferd Pill, born on this date in 8181. Pill, who died penitent -in a neuterary of the Benedictine Order, is said to have conceived his -idea after perusing some early Terran legends about the swan. - -He never represented himself as the composer, but always as the agent -or representative of a Harsh XII inhabitant. In the short space of -three years, he sold over two hundred songs, none of great length -but all, as musicians agree to this day, of a startling and almost -un-Hnau-like beauty. - -When a clerk in the records department of Pill's publishers discovered -that Pill, having listed himself as the heir of each of the Harsh XII -composers, was in fact collecting their money, an investigation began. - -That the composers were in fact dead was easily discovered. That Pill -was their murderer was the next matter that came to light. - -In an agony of self-abasement, Pill confessed his crime. "The Harshians -don't sing at all," he said. "They don't make a sound. But--like the -legendary swan of old Terra--they do deliver themselves of one song in -dying. I murdered them in order to record these songs, and then sold -the recordings." - -Pill's subsequent escape from the prison in which he was confined, and -his trip to the sanctuary of the neuterary, were said to have been -arranged by the grateful widow of one of the murdered Harshians, who -had been enabled by her mate's death to remarry with a younger and -handsomer Harshian. - - * * * * * - -_DECEMBER 5_: Today marks the birthday of Timmis Calk, a science -teacher of Lavoris II. - -Calk is almost forgotten today, but his magnificent Student Orchestra -created a storm both of approval and protest when it was first seen -in 9734. Critics on both sides of what rapidly became a Galaxywide -controversy were forced, however, to acknowledge the magnificent -playing of the Student Orchestra and its great technical attainments. - -Its story begins with Calk himself and his sweetheart, a lovely being -named Silla. - -Though Calk's love for Silla was true and profound, Silla did not -return his affectionate feelings. She was an anti-scientist, a -musician. The sects were split on Lavoris II to such an extent that -marriage between Calk and his beloved would have meant crossing the -class lines--something which Silla, a music-lover, was unwilling to -contemplate. - -Calk therefore determined to prove to her that a scientist could be -just as artistic as any musician. Months of hard work followed, until -finally he was ready. - -He engaged the great Drick Hall for his first concert--and the program -consisted entirely of classical works of great difficulty. Beethoven's -Ninth Symphony opened the program, and Fenk's Reversed Ode closed it. -Calk had no time for the plaudits of critics and audience; he went -searching for Silla. - -But he was too late. She had heard his concert--and had immediately -accepted the marriage proposal of a childhood sweetheart. - -Calk nearly committed suicide. But at the last moment, he tossed the -spraying-bottle away and went back to Silla. - -"Why?" he said. "Why did you reject me, after hearing the marvelous -music which I created?" - -"You are not a musician, but a scientist," Silla said. "Any musician -would have refrained from _growing_ his orchestra from seeds." - -Unable to understand her esthetic revulsion, Calk determined there and -then to continue his work with the Student Orchestra (it made a great -deal more money than science-teaching). 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