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The violin and its music, 1881
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1mers were not alone in their denunciation of the then existing musical arrangements in connection with the Church. Their voices were joined by those of some high dignitaries of the orthodox faith; since Cardinal Cajetan complained that "With the noise of organs, and the clamorous divisions and absurd repetitions of affected singers, which seem, as it were, devised on purpose to darken the sense, the auditors should be so confounded as that no one should be able to understand what was sung." Erasmus—a votary of Music in his youth—steered a course betwixt that which was deemed orthodox and that which was regarded as heretical, said "What notions have they of Christ who think He is pleased with such a noise?" These, then, were the opinions that were rife in reference to Ecclesiastical Music about the period of the Reformation. When we take into account the character of the Flemish Ecclesiastical Music written during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, we are led to believe that the innovations which were so loudly complained of, had their rise in the Netherlands' and passed into Italy with the Flemish musicians. The extraordinary number and magnificence of the Gothic sacred buildings spread over the Low Countries prior to the Reformation, evidences the Netherlanders' influence in this direction; and though it may not be wise to gauge the depth of a nation's piety by the number of edifices raised for religious purposes, we can measure the extent and depth of
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