Art Music And Nature Selections From the Writings of David Swing
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" Not only is this the fine art which reaches the largest number, but the art which touches the heart the most quickly and the most deeply. 26 flRT, MUSIC HND NATURE. Painting and sculpture and architecture are quiet forms of the beautiful compared with music. It is said to be the only one of the arts that can draw tears. When the ancients wished to tell how pow- erful were lute and voice, they had to resort to fancy, that the colors of the pictures might be gorgeous enough to be truthful. When... Orpheus played upon his lyre, the heart of Pluto relented and Eurydice escaped, the wheel of Ixion stopped, the vultures ceased HRT, MUSIC RND NflTURE. 27 to torment Tytyas, and the thirst of Tantalus was forgotten, and the goddess of death forgot to go to earth to call away the infant or the aged from sweet life. What Ulysses and his companions found it most difficult to contend against was not the billows of the sea nor the breakers of Charybdis, but the song of the sirens. Hesiod says that when these two sisters sang, the winds paused to catch the strain, and that 28 HRT, MUSIC RND NATURE.
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