Familiar Talks on Music (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Music, to those who love it, fulfils every emo tional need. Agitation is soothed by it, depress ed spirits revived; it can and often does move us to tears, but it can also make us inexpressibly happy. Its functions are the noblest of any of the arts. The most lofty and universal of human sentiments, love, religion, and patriotism, always have invoked music to their aid So natural an impulse is music, that is, song, in the love of the sexes that Darwin was led to believe that the very origin of music is to be found in the love calls of the half human progenitors of mankind. This impulse has evolved into one of the most finished and highly specialized arts, that of sing ing, a form of music which comes nearer to being universal than any other expression of emotion. It is the only form of artistic expres sion which any number of people can perform in the same manner at the same time. This fact makes it pre-eminently a social art - it draws men nearer by animating them with a single purpose.

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