Walter Raymond Spalding Quote

We realize, and with our inborn equipment can appreciate, the moving power of music; but to define, in the usual sense of the term definition, what music really is, will be forever impossible. The fact indeed that music—like love, electricity and other elemental forces—cannot be defined is its special glory. It is a peculiar, mysterious power; quite in a class by itself, although with certain aspects which it shares with the other arts.


Page 1. - Quotes from Music: An Art and a Language - Preliminary Considerations (Ch. I)

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We realize, and with our inborn equipment can appreciate, the moving power of music; but to define, in the usual sense of the term definition, what...

We realize, and with our inborn equipment can appreciate, the moving power of music; but to define, in the usual sense of the term definition, what...

We realize, and with our inborn equipment can appreciate, the moving power of music; but to define, in the usual sense of the term definition, what...

We realize, and with our inborn equipment can appreciate, the moving power of music; but to define, in the usual sense of the term definition, what...