Literature:Genesis of a Music/Skellan

A fraŋawinws ryb hylbyvrel dysgy nwsyvŋa sbejað hylmoçłeŋ ulyn mend ñe: bo hylbyvrel dyb syvŋa moçłeŋ pacrees ñe dy vurol.

SG hallowed-SUP of-COL tradition among artist vigorous-CST creativity perhaps this 3SG.N: COL tradition in-COL art creative suspect 3SG.N per_se

PERHAPS the most hallowed of traditions among artists of creative vigor is this: traditions in the creative arts are per se suspect.

Eer doþ ñe ar brytsoon ry bintsiðrag – lyfoñte mi tylytslats.

for stand 3SG.N on inheritance of standardization REL.NRESTR entail RES degradation

For they exist on the patrimony of standardization, which means degeneration.

Iñhynwz ñe cwin bladylada ñe dynfox a bygan ymsdaw çyñ ros lly iñsylyleh ñe, as rysug iñhynwz ñe tev asserñ a symigal roson bli ym ñe nai tañxuav serñ dy nwtynłooh.

dominate 3SG.N because serve 3SG.N interest SG group certain with power to perpetuate 3SG.N, and cease dominate 3SG.N when_CONJ replace_with_something_new SG group powerful EQU FA 3SG.N with pattern new adv successful.

They dominate because they are to the interest of some group that has the power to perpetuate them, and they cease to dominate when some equally powerful group undertakes to bend them to a new pattern.

Lly nwsnooh byñbrañ twm hnwil lly jymplws emdydilang jyhylbyvrel. Dytri dy hitsro sinoh, yłsgáł car ñe dy di-hayndá as øør jal hnoos.

to student alert not difficult INF acquire technique traditional. surrounded in pressure study, absorb one_IMPERSONAL 3SG.N in unconscious and much too easy.

It is not difficult for the alert student to acquire the traditional techniques. Under the pressures of study these are unconsciously and all too easily absorbed.

Ticar cwll car a giþrañ lly swvañs hylpyvrel dy sgual, cend sloomañah slawb ria hylsbej reb ñe.

how_much can one_IMPERSONAL SG resist INF follow DAT tradition blindly, that measure good vitality of-3SG.M 3SG.N

The extent to which an individual can resist being blindly led by tradition is a good measure of his vitality.

Bo hylpyvrel ytxas ñe ersymsañin tev deeb gwad: emçyçeel gwm çid; obar gwm nwfrind piáno cøllt, duvwñ cøllt, nwdymhał cøllt, nwðylég cøllt. Ytxas ñe ersymsañin tev deeb gwad: Þwłygia gwm a caidad as binnyliswañ ryb frindu "slawb". Ersymsañin as eremdymytilin ytxas hylbyvrel, hyvra i txoomin bo txyngab frindol ar ymyiam yfwr vyhol miar, yfnood pynyreþ ñe.

COL tradition remain 3SG.N not disturbed when say 1PL.IN: improve COHORT 1PL.IN.REFL; become COHORT player piano better, teacher better, conductor better, composer better. remain 3SG.N not disturbed when say 1PL.IN: increase COHORT knowledge and appreciation of music "good". undisturbed, uninvestigated, remain tradition, therefore if founded COL culture musical on principle noble outwardly like_this, already senile 3SG.N.

Traditions remain undisturbed when we say: let us improve ourselves; let us become better pianists, teachers, conductors, better composers. They remain undisturbed when we say: let us increase the knowledge and appreciation of "good" music. Traditions remain undisturbed, uninvestigated, and therefore a culture of music based upon such palpably noble precepts is already senile.

A [characteristic] ry hylsbéj ry [...] a hylbyvrel dy lygił; søvran car cend dyð añdałofs bi ryb naltwñ ynyriag Tañ, dia hylyçemða rrondahd ryb Floréntib dy lyçlyoh Rynesáñs.

characteristic of vitality that causes any culture to be significant, comprise it something other, presence of that which undermine tradition ADV constantly; find IMP that, in perception fresh of COL poet dynasty Tang, in curiosity bold of COL Florentines in age Renaissance.

The quality of vitality that makes any culture significant involves something else, the presence of which constantly undermines tradition; it is found in the perceptive freshness of the Tang Dynasty poets, the bold curiosity of the Renaissance Florentines.

Dy gifoñru orð, gyl mend a sryhanin ñe:

in extent large, from this A be_formed it: investigation, investigation, investigation. in poetry and in many other form of expression creative, can this.SG investigation follow path intellectual and metaphysical entirely, but in music, by_nature, must it also follow path grabbable.

In large measure it is compounded of investigation, investigation, investigation. In poetry and in many other forms of creative expression investigation may take an entirely intellectual and metaphysical path, but in music, because of the very nature of the art, it must also take a physical path.

A migiþ ry na nwfrind piano "slawb", duvwñ "slawb", nwðyleg "slawb", as frindu "slawb", twm nuab

SG army of-PL pianist "good", teacher "good", composer "good", and music "good"

A phalanx of good pianists, good teachers, good composers, and "good" music no more creates a spirit of investigation and a vital age in music than good grades in school create a spirit of investigation and a body of thinking citizens.

To promote a youthful vitality in music we must have students who will question every idea and related physical object that they encounter.

They must question the corpus of knowledge, traditions, and usages that give us a piano, for example – the very fact of a piano; they must question the tones of its keys, question the music on its rack, and, above all, they must question, constantly and eternally, what might be called the philosophies behind device, the philosophies that are really responsible for these things.