This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... II. THE MORAL THEORY OF MUSIC. When one of the many and various influences that continually surround humanity occupies such a close relationship with the nature of man as to personally affect it, such an influence will always produce within this nature a certain fresh impression, some internal flow of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... II. THE MORAL THEORY OF MUSIC. When one of the many and various influences that continually surround humanity occupies such a close relationship with the nature of man as to personally affect it, such an influence will always produce within this nature a certain fresh impression, some internal flow of feeling more or less abiding, agreeable, or elevated. Now, as throughout the great realm of humanity, such an action as this is continually going on, and as amidst all mankind there exists a strong and unremitting tendency to express the inward feelings, and a mutual necessity to convey the various facts and occurrences, and thus to diffuse the different influences of emotion, in life; as in short it is a remarkable property of humanity to both physically and morally associate, --it will be observed that every communication from human lips, to effect its due result upon the hearer, must contain two distinct constituent elements--namely, the mechanical symbols or words of exactly defined power, and the free tone, emphasis, and pause, of power indefinite and unprescribed; the serviceable office fulfilled bythe former being to convey the abstract facts that were to be imparted, and that of the latter to express the feelings and impressions those facts previously aroused in the narrator. "Thus, suppose a person to be relating to another the occurrence of some catastrophe in which the narrator was himself involved, and that this catastrophe were a shipwreck. His words would impart the abstract facts that happened, but the gradations of Tone in which he uttered them, the striking Emphasis, and the effective Pause, would convey the Feelings he experienced through the scene he is recording, in the temperament of which he is now relating it; so that...
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