Walter Raymond Spalding Quotes (10 quotes)

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“The Introductory chords dissolve the dream which the music has evoked, and we are back once more in the world of reality.”

Walter Raymond Spalding

On the Coda of the Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, page 187 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA187. Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Schumann and Mendelssohn (Ch. XIII)

“Another favorite means of arresting the attention was by modulation; not used in a constructive in different keys, but to furnish the ear with a purely sensuous delight, corresponding to that which the eye derives from the kaleidoscopic colors of a sunset.”

Walter Raymond Spalding

Pages 164–165 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA164. Music: An Art and a Language (1920), The Romantic Composers. Schubert and Weber (Ch. XII)

“A knowledge of Bach is the beginning of musical wisdom.”

Walter Raymond Spalding

Page 47 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA47. Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Polyphonic Music; Sebastian Bach (Ch. III)

“The firmness of structure inherent in the canonic form is perfectly compatible with genuine freedom and poetry of inspiration.”

Walter Raymond Spalding

Page 37 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA37. Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Polyphonic Music; Sebastian Bach (Ch. III)

“The rhythm of music, akin to the human heart-beat and to the ceaseless change and motion, which is the basic fact in all life, apeals at once to our own physical vitality.”

Walter Raymond Spalding

Page 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3. Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Preliminary Considerations (Ch. I)

“One of the peculiar characteristics of music is that it is both the most natural and least artificial of the arts, and as well the most complicated and subtle.”

Walter Raymond Spalding

Page 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3. Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Preliminary Considerations (Ch. I)

“It speaks to our feelings and imaginations, as it were by suggestion; reaching for this very reason depths of our being quite beyond the power of mere words.”

Walter Raymond Spalding

On instrumental music, page 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA2. Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Preliminary Considerations (Ch. I)