Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1917 — Babies’ Cries Set to Music. [ARTICLE]

Babies’ Cries Set to Music.

The crying of babies Is not regarded gs musical, but nevertheless It Is. Rev. Noel Bonava Hunt, a senior curate of St. Matthew’s church, Wlllesden, England, has set Infants’ cries to music. He was particularly impressed with the beauty and musical quality of the wails and cries of the infants at the baptismal services held at St. Matthew’s. *He tried to persuade the church musicians to catch the sounds and set them to music, but they refused. At length Rev._Mr. Hunt hipjgelf reJbrded the sounds In the form of a chant set to the words of the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh psalm: “By the .waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Zion.” “The composition Is original/’ Rev. Mr. Hunt says, “and it is a little grotesque, but it is musical. It represents the meaning of the words to which it is set.”