Just as poetry and prose are a series of stanzas or sentence, so a musical composition is a succession of definitely organized portions of thought and emotion, in terms of rhythm and sound. In the heart of a composition, to be sure, we often find a great freedom in the phraseology, comparible to blank verse or to a rhapsodic kind of prose.


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Just as poetry and prose are a series of stanzas or sentence, so a musical composition is a succession of definitely organized portions of thought...

Just as poetry and prose are a series of stanzas or sentence, so a musical composition is a succession of definitely organized portions of thought...

Just as poetry and prose are a series of stanzas or sentence, so a musical composition is a succession of definitely organized portions of thought...

Just as poetry and prose are a series of stanzas or sentence, so a musical composition is a succession of definitely organized portions of thought...