Post-Victorian Music, With Other Studies And Sketches
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The element of mysticism which has crept into its being in our time is not yet free from sensuousness ; and it is overmuch preoccupied with the merely ^ntastic, the consciously bizarre. I believe that it will shake itself clear of these things ; that it will attain, too, an added fluidity and fineness of exceptional texture ; that it will become continuallylless vehement, violent, and assertive. I can hear, in this supposititious art that I like to imagine, supremely moving tone- sequences, poi...gnantly chromatic in their progress and interrelation, yet wholly different (more supple and various) from the formulas perpetuated in contemporary music by those who have drunk too deeply at the intoxicating spring of Wagner's genius. I am aware of a new voice and a new art, subtle yet commanding, having strange and undiscovered potencies of communi- cation, of revelation — a speech at once luminous and esoteric, importunate and profound. Its persuasions. 272 POST-VICTORIAN MUSIC xxxiii perhaps, shall lead us closer " to the gates of our being .
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