Tertium Quid: Chapters On Various Disputed Questions
Tertium Quid: Chapters On Various Disputed Questions
Edmund Gurney
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Does the inevitable and lifelong possession of brain and heart by the crowd of haunting shapes which represent the inventive achievements of the last few generations, allow the old spring and scope for Digitized by VjOOQIC A MUSICAL CRISIS 95 spontaneous imaginings ? Is there really a danger that the present progress of Music, where it is not towards chaos, is towards the ingenuity and com- plexity which would reduce it to the refined amuse- ment of a small specially-gifted minority? Our third ...paradox taught us that comparatively short motives of arresting interest are necessary to great works : will they cease ? Our second paradox taught us that the note-material of our music is of modern development, and it has been assiduously racked and re-racked for combinations : will it hold out? Volkslieder like those of the past do not seem now to blossom up : can we look for an eternity of striking * subjects ' in concert-music or Opera ? I have not space to attempt a reply, even were a definite reply possible ; but perhaps, as regards the public at large, we may find some solace in a reference to our first paradox.
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