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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV MUSIC In the art of music we face what is in some respects the most difficult problem in our aesthetical analysis. Here is a system of sounds ranging from a simple succession of pitches in an isolated melody to the most complicated orchestral harmony, capable of an emotional appeal which is equal if not superior to any other art, and yet which is singularly elusive when one attempts to formulate its significance. What does music mean ? What thought does it convey ? How can we call intelligent any exercise which consists of listening to sounds which we are unable to interpret as conveying a definite rational idea ? We may enjoy a prelude, a sonata, a quartette, or a symphony; but after it is over, how can we give a coherent account of what we have got from it ? Why, if we cannot do so, have we a right to consider that such an art conveys a rational message ? We are attempting in this analysis, as in the former studies, to face the experience of this art with the fresh eyes of a newcomer to our planet, who is impartially sensitive and curious, and who understands nothing. We observe that music figures largely in the life of the race. We see not only that it beguiles the simplest labor or leisure, but that it is thought worthy to occupy the attention of men on the most important occasions of their lives. They are christened and married and prayed over and marched to war and celebrated and buried to music, as if in some fashion well-ordered sound was the appropriate accompaniment of all the activities of the human family. But why this is so is certainly not obvious. The first questions are, as they have been heretofore in our study of the new art, What is music made of? What is the material medium in which it lives ? and as we review the instruments by which mus...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217766982
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 50
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217766986
  • Publisher Date: 07 Feb 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 86 gr


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