Illustrations of Universal Progress; a Series of Discussions
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And if music has been by slow steps developed in the course of civili- zation, it must have been developed out of something.
If, then, its origin is not that above alleged, what is its origin ?
Thus we find that the negative evidence confirms the positive, and that, taken together, they furnish strong proof. We have seen that there is a physiological relation, common to man and all animals, between feeling and mus- cular action ; that as vocal sounds are produced by muscu- lar action, there is ...a consequent physiological relation be- tween feeling and vocal sounds ; that all the modifications of voice expressive of feeling are the direct results of this physiological relation ; that music, adopting all these modi- ITS INDIRECT BENEFITS AND PLEASURES. 231 fications, intensifies them more and more as it ascends to its higher and higher forms, and becomes music simply in virtue of thus intensifying them ; that, from the ancient epic poet chanting his verses, down to the modern musical composer, men of unusually strong feelings prone to express them in extreme forms, have been naturally the agents of these successive intensifications ; and that so there has little by little arisen a wide divergence between this ideal- ized language of emotion and its natural language : to which direct evidence we have just added the indirect — that on no other tenable hypothesis can either the expressiveness or the genesis of music be explained.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
And if music has been by slow steps developed in the course of civili- zation, it must have been developed out of something.
If, then, its origin is not that above alleged, what is its origin ?
Thus we find that the negative evidence confirms the positive, and that, taken together, they furnish strong proof. We have seen that there is a physiological relation, common to man and all animals, between feeling and mus- cular action ; that as vocal sounds are produced by muscu- lar action, there is ...a consequent physiological relation be- tween feeling and vocal sounds ; that all the modifications of voice expressive of feeling are the direct results of this physiological relation ; that music, adopting all these modi- ITS INDIRECT BENEFITS AND PLEASURES. 231 fications, intensifies them more and more as it ascends to its higher and higher forms, and becomes music simply in virtue of thus intensifying them ; that, from the ancient epic poet chanting his verses, down to the modern musical composer, men of unusually strong feelings prone to express them in extreme forms, have been naturally the agents of these successive intensifications ; and that so there has little by little arisen a wide divergence between this ideal- ized language of emotion and its natural language : to which direct evidence we have just added the indirect — that on no other tenable hypothesis can either the expressiveness or the genesis of music be explained.
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