The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining....


Mythologiques: (ed. University of Chicago Press, 1983) - ISBN: 9780226474878

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quotes

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on...

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on...

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on...

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on...