Tertium Quid: Chapters On Various Disputed Questions 2
Tertium Quid: Chapters On Various Disputed Questions 2
Edmund Gurney
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Sully's * agreeable divergence from the common run of compositions' — that it is a quality far more identified with extended works than with the shorter quintessential passages which constitute our primary problem. Nobody will say that the separate sections of the Andante of the Pastoral Sonata, or of the Allegretto of the Seventh Symphony, impress us by dint of their variety y though the variety due to their juxtaposition is, of course, in the complete work, a point only secondary {longo inter...vallo) to their individual beauty. And as regards individuality, our former THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSI- point again applies. The general conditii for a bit of music consisting in movement tS^ artistic worth, it must present a certain freshness " and spontaneity of movement, gives no clue what- ever to the special conditions of the freshness in any particular case ; that is to say, it affords us no means of discovering, apart from the particular impression that we receive, why one progression is felt as a surprise — takes us somehow into quite a new place in the tone-world — while another, though equally formed by a combination of notes which our ears have never previously encountered, pro- duces not the slightest extension of our musical horizon.^ * Professor Stumpf objects to the marked distinction which I make between the impressive character of all the music that gives pleasure, and the definably expressive character (peaceful, joyful, gloomy, etc.
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