Of all the arts, music makes the most direct appeal to the emotions and to those shadowy, but real portions of our being called the imagination and the soul. Emotion is as indispensible to music as love to religion.


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Of all the arts, music makes the most direct appeal to the emotions and to those shadowy, but real portions of our being called the imagination and...

Of all the arts, music makes the most direct appeal to the emotions and to those shadowy, but real portions of our being called the imagination and...

Of all the arts, music makes the most direct appeal to the emotions and to those shadowy, but real portions of our being called the imagination and...

Of all the arts, music makes the most direct appeal to the emotions and to those shadowy, but real portions of our being called the imagination and...