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Music requires active coöperation by the hearer.

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A knowledge of Bach is the beginning of musical wisdom.

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Listz was undoubtedly encouraged in his revolutionary aims by Wagner's fiery courage.

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The chief melody, often in the upper voice, seems to float on underlying waves of sound.

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Thus a very etherial, magical quality of tone is produced, especially in the upper ranges of the instrument.

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Beginning with Beethoven, however, composers began to exhibit great freedom in the application of Sonata-Form.

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Music is of such power and glory that we should be ready to devote to its study as much time as to a foreign language.

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The Introductory chords dissolve the dream which the music has evoked, and we are back once more in the world of reality.

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The firmness of structure inherent in the canonic form is perfectly compatible with genuine freedom and poetry of inspiration.

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Schumann claimed that his object in writing music was to influence the imagination of the listeners that they could go on dreaming for themselves.

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It speaks to our feelings and imaginations, as it were by suggestion; reaching for this very reason depths of our being quite beyond the power of mere words.

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One of the peculiar characteristics of music is that it is both the most natural and least artificial of the arts, and as well the most complicated and subtle.

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The rhythm of music, akin to the human heart-beat and to the ceaseless change and motion, which is the basic fact in all life, apeals at once to our own physical vitality.

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